FUJII Nanako

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2019	Doha, QAT	7th (1:34:50)

World Race Walking Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
7	2019	20km Race Walk	World Athletics Championships	Doha, QAT	1:34:50
12	2019	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	A Corunya, ESP	1:28:58

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	10000m Walk
2018	Tampere, FIN	4th (45:08.68)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Nanasuke, Nanao (edion.co.jp, 15 Mar 2020)

Collecting merchandise about the fictional character 'Winnie-the-Pooh'. (edion.co.jp, 15 Mar 2020)

Athlete, Office Worker

Japanese

Edion [Japan]

Atsushi Sawayanagi [club], JPN

She missed the 2020 National Championships in Japan due to an inflammation issue with a ligament in her right thigh. She returned to competitive action the following month in March. (nikkansports.com, 15 Mar 2020)

In January 2017 she sustained a stress fracture to the cuboid bone in her left foot, and was sidelined for around three months. (2020.yahoo.co.jp, 17 Apr 2018)

She suffered a stress fracture to her left shin in 2015 in grade 10 of high school in Japan. (olympicchannel.com, 30 Mar 2020)

She took up athletics in grade three of primary school, and began competing in race walking in 2016 at Kitakyushu City High School in Japan. (jiji.com, 24 Mar 2020; olympicchannel.com, 30 Mar 2020; nikkansports.com, 15 Mar 2020)

She joined an athletics team after winning several marathon races. She then took up race walking as part of her rehabilitation after suffering a stress fracture to her left shin. (jiji.com, 24 Mar 2020; olympicchannel.com, 30 Mar 2020)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nikkansports.com, 15 Mar 2020)

Japanese race walker Kumiko Okada. (olympicchannel.com, 30 Mar 2020)

"There is no improvement of a performance level without human power." (edion.co.jp, 15 Mar 2020)

She was presented with a Rookie Award at the 2019 Japan Association of Athletics Federations [JAAF] Athletics Awards in Japan. (jaaf.or.jp, 17 Dec 2020)

She received the Kitakyushu Citizen Sports Award in Japan. (city.kitakyushu.lg.jp, 16 Mar 2020)