Masazumi_Soejima

Masazumi Soejima

Masazumi Soejima

Japanese Paralympic athlete

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.

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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

  1. [1]
    "Olympics Blog". ESPN.com.
  2. [2]
    "Paralympic Results & Historical Records". International Paralympic Committee.
  3. [3]
    Elite Wheelchair Race. Tokyo Marathon. Retrieved 2019-04-22.


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