Masazumi Soejima
Appearance
Soejima during the 2009 Boston Marathon | ||
Medal record | ||
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Track and field (athletics) | ||
Representing Japan | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
2004 Athens | 4x400m – T53-54 |
Masazumi Soejima (副島 正純, Soejima Masazumi) (born 1970) is a Paralympian wheelchair racing athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T54 long-distance events.
Masazumi was the men's wheelchair winner of the 2011 New York Marathon and the 2011 Boston Marathon.[1] He has competed in the marathon in both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics, 10000m in 2004, 5000m and 1500m in 2008 but it was as part of the Japanese 4 × 400 m relay in 2004 that he won his only medal, a bronze.[2]
He later moved into administration of wheelchair racing, serving as the race director of the wheelchair section of the 2019 Tokyo Marathon.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympics Blog". ESPN.com.
- ^ "Paralympic Results & Historical Records". International Paralympic Committee.
- ^ Elite Wheelchair Race. Tokyo Marathon. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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