Mitsuhiro Abiko

Mitsuhiro Abiko
Born	Template:Birth year and age Yamagata, Japan
Occupation	Track athlete
Known for	400 metres sprint

is a Japanese track athlete who focuses on the 400 metres sprint. At the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, he participated in the men's 4 × 400 m relay event, teaming up with Kenji Narisako, Dai Tamesue, and Yoshihiro Horigome. He took the first leg in the second heat, recording an individual split time of 46.70 seconds. The quartet secured sixth place in their heat with a season-best performance of 3:04.18 but did not qualify for the final round.

Personal bests

0.4 m/s

Event	Time	Wind	Location	Date
100 m	10.30 s
Tokyo, Japan	17 May 2009
200 m	20.48 s
Osaka, Japan	9 May 2009
300 m	32.63 s		Izumo, Japan	19 April 2009
400 m	46.23 s		Kawasaki, Japan	29 June 2008

Records

• Medley relay (100m×200m×300m×400m)
  • Holder of the current Japanese university record - 1:50.12 s (ran second leg) (Odawara, 16 October 2010)

achieved alongside Sōta Kawatsura, Akihiro Urano, and Hideyuki Hirose

Competition record

Competing for Template:JPN
2006	Asian Junior Championships	Macau, China	Template:Sort	400 m	Template:Sort
			Template:Sort	4 × 100 m relay	Template:Sort (ran third leg)
			Template:Sort	4 × 400 m relay	3:10.09 (ran first leg)
	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China	Template:Sort (heat)	200 m	Template:Sort (wind: 0.0 m/s)
			Template:Sort	4 × 400 m relay	3:16.61 (ran first leg)
2008	Olympics	Beijing, China	Template:Sort (heat)	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.18 (ran first leg)

|- |rowspan=2 |2009

|rowspan=2 |Universiade
|rowspan=2 |Belgrade, Serbia
|Template:Sort (semifinal)
|200 m
|Template:Sort (wind: -0.2 m/s)
|-
|-style="background:#F5A9A9;" |(heat)
|4 × 100 m relay
|(disqualified) (ran third leg)

|} |- |rowspan=2 |2010

|rowspan=2 |Asian Games 
|rowspan=2 |Guangzhou, China
|(heat)
|200 m
|(wind: +0.6 m/s)
|- 
|(heat)
|4 × 100 m relay
|(ran third leg)

|}

External links

• Mitsuhiro Abiko profile at the Japan Association of Athletics Federations
• NBC Olympics 2008 athlete biography