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Nobuharu is pictured above (far left) during the final of the mens
4x100m at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. He ran the final leg
for the Japanese team which finished in 5th place in a new area record
time of 38.03 secs. The USA (lane 4, anchored by Leroy Dixon), Jamaica
(lane 5, Asafa Powell) and Great Britain (lane 7, Mark Lewis-Francis)
won gold, silver and bronze respectively.
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Men's 4x100m. Relay Final. 2007 World Athletics Championships.
1. United States (Darvis Patton; Wallace Spearmon; Tyson Gay; Leroy Dixon) 37.78
2. Jamaica (Marvin Anderson; Usain Bolt; Nesta Carter; Asafa Powell) 37.89
3. G.B. & N.I. (Christian Malcolm; Craig Pickering; Marlon Devonish; Mark Lewis-Francis) 37.90
4. Brazil (Vicente de Lima; Rafael Ribeiro; Basílio de Moraes; Sandro Viana) 37.99
5. Japan (Naoki Tsukahara; Shingo Suetsugu; Shinji Takahira;
Nobuharu Asahara)
38.03
6. Germany (Ronny Ostwald; Tobias Unger; Alexander Kosenkow; Julian Reus) 38.62
Poland (Michal Bielczyk; Lukasz Chyla; Marcin Jedrusinski; Dariusz Kuc) DNF
Nigeria (Obinna Metu; Chukwu Uche Isaac; Chinedu Oriala; Olusoji A. Fasuba) DNF
Nobuharu Asahara won the 100 m at the Japanese national championship on five occasions in
1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and he took part in the Olympics four times in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.
He represented Japan six times at the World Championships in Athletics.
He reached the semifinals five times: at the 1996 Olympics and the World Championships
in 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2007.
He also finished twelfth in the long jump final at the 1995 World Championships.
On 23 September 2008, he retired from competitive athletics at the Kawasaki Super Meet,
finishing third in the 100 m behind Mark Lewis-Francis and Michael Rodgers.
PERSONAL BESTS.
100 Metres 10.02 +2.0 Oslo 13 JUL 2001
200 Metres 20.39 +0.9 Stuttgart 13 JUL 1997
Long Jump 8.13 +0.7 Manila 03 DEC 1993