Taika Gon
Taika Gon at the 1932 Olympics | |
Personal information | |
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Born | June 2, 1906 Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk, South Korea |
Died | October 10, 1971 (aged 65) |
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Marathon |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 2:35:12 (1932) |
Taika Gon (権 泰夏, originally Tae-ha Kwon, Korean: 권태하, June 2, 1906 – October 10, 1971) was a Korean long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1932 Olympics and finished in ninth place.[1] He competed for Japan under his Japanese name as Korea, Empire of Japan was part of the Japanese Empire at the time. The name is based on the Japanese kanji pronunciation of his Korean hanja name.
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Japan Championships in Athletics men's marathon champions
- 1913–15: Shizo Kanakuri
- 1916: Tominosuke Kato
- 1917–18: Yuyuki Akiba
- 1919: Yahei Miura
- 1920: Choichi Goto
- 1921: Koji Shimomura
- 1922: Chojiro Nishida
- 1923: Masao Matsuoka
- 1924: Not held
- 1925: Maru Saburo
- 1926: Masao Yamauchi
- 1927: Seiji Takahashi
- 1928: Kanematsu Yamada
- 1929: Kusu Yoshizo
- 1930: Seiji Takahashi
- 1931: Tamao Shiwaku
- 1932: Taika Gon (KOR)
- 1933: Kusu Yoshizo
- 1934: Isamu Nakata
- 1935: Sohn Kee-chung (KOR)
- 1936: Yu Suzuki
- 1937: Nagaharu Yanagi
- 1938: Shigekazu Kabazawa
- 1939: Kure Tosuke
- 1940: Shoichiro Takenaka
- 1941: Not held
- 1942: Akihabara Yasuta
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946–47: Shinzo Koga
- 1948: Shunichi Watanabe
- 1949: Hiroshi Hashimoto
- 1950: Yoshikazu Noda
- 1951: Kiyoshi Shinozaki
- 1952: Hiroshi Hashimoto
- 1953: Kofu Hiroshima
- 1954: Yoshikatsu Takahashi
- 1955: Veikko Karvonen (FIN)
- 1956: Keizo Yamada
- 1957–58: Sumio Horinouchi
- 1959: Yasuo Koshikawa
- 1960: Nobuyoshi Sadanaga
- 1961: Abebe Bikila (ETH)
- 1962: Toru Terasawa
- 1963: Jeff Julian (NZL)
- 1964: Kenji Kimihara
- 1965: Hidekuni Hiroshima
- 1966: Yoshiro Mifune
- 1967: Derek Clayton (AUS)
- 1968: Akio Usami
- 1969: Jerome Drayton (CAN)
- 1970: Bill Adcocks (GBR)
- 1971: Frank Shorter (USA)
- 1972: Akio Usami
- 1973: Frank Shorter (USA)
- 1974: Akio Usami
- 1975: Jerome Drayton (CAN)
- 1976: Akio Usami
- 1977: Bill Rodgers (USA)
- 1978: Takeshi So
- 1979: Toshihiko Seko
- 1980: Hiroshi Yuge
- 1981: Robert de Castella (AUS)
- 1982: Michio Mizukubo
- 1983: Toshihiko Seko
- 1984: Tetsuji Iwase
- 1985: Hisatoshi Shintaku
- 1986: Toshihiro Shibutani
- 1987: Takeyuki Nakayama
- 1988: Toshihiko Seko
- 1989: Manuel Matias (POR)
- 1990: Eddy Hellebuyck (BEL)
- 1991: Shuichi Morita
- 1992: Mike O'Reilly (GBR)
- 1993: Dionicio Cerón (MEX)
- 1994: Kenichi Suzuki
- 1995: Masaki Oya
- 1996: Hiroshi Tako
- 1997: Toshiyuki Hayata
- 1998: Muneyuki Ojima
- 1999: Hiroshi Miki
- 2000: Atsushi Fujita
- 2001: Shigeru Aburaya
- 2002: Toshio Mano
- 2003: Tomoaki Kunichika
- 2004: Tadayuki Ojima
- 2005: Toshinari Takaoka
- 2006: Wataru Okutani
- 2007: Mitsuru Kubota
- 2008: Arata Fujiwara
- 2009: Tadashi Shitamori
- 2010: Tomoyuki Sato
- 2011: Yuki Kawauchi
- 2012: Hiroyuki Horibata
- 2013: Masakazu Fujiwara
- 2014: Kohei Matsumura
- 2015: Satoru Sasaki
- 2016: Hisanori Kitajima
- 2017: Hiroto Inoue
- 2018: Yuma Hattori
- 2019: Shogo Nakamura
- 2020: Naoya Sakuda
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