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| Personal information | |
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| Born | 6 October 1998 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Pole vault |
Medal record | |
Misaki Morota (born 6 October 1998) is a Japanese pole vaulter. She is the national record holder and won the gold medal at the 2026 Asian Games. She was also a silver medalist at the previous edition of the Asian Games and the 2026 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships and a bronze medalist at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships.[1]
Biography
[edit]Morota was from an athletic family, with her father a competitor. She began training in pole vault while in her fourth year of elementary school. She trains at the Ajinomoto National Training Centre in Tokyo.[2]
Morota won the silver medal in the pole vault at the delayed 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China, in 2023, clearing 4.48 metres.[3] That year, she placed fourth at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok, with a new personal best of 4.48 metres.[4]
In May 2025, she won the bronze medal at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea.[5] competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, without advancing to the final.[6]
In February 2026, she won the silver medal at the 2026 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tianjin, clearing 4.35 to finish behind Niu Chunge of China on countback.[7] In September 2026, she set a new Japanese national record with a clearance of 4.51 metres.[8] Later that month, she became the first ever Japanese winner of the women’s pole vault at the Asian Games, winning in Nagoya with a personal best and national record clearance of 4.55 metres to claim the victory ahead of Asian champion Niu Chunge, and ending the run of seven consecutive victories by Chinese athletes since the event was introduced at the 1998 Games.[9][10][11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Misaki Morota". World Athletics. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
- ↑ "Interview with Misaki Morota, At Home Track and Field Team Member and Japanese Women's Pole Vault Record Holder!". athome-inc.jp. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
- ↑ "19th Asian Games". World Athletics. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
- ↑ "Asian Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
- ↑ "26th Asian Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 28 May 2025. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
- ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 15 Sep 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ↑ "12th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 6 February 2026. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
- ↑ "Women's Pole Vault: Misaki Morota (At Home, Tokyo) jumps 4.51m! Breaks her own Japanese record". jaaf.of.jp. 16 Sep 2026. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
- ↑ "Boonson and Chen sprint to Asian Games records in Nagoya". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2026-09-25.
- ↑ "Asian Games: 15-yr-old skateboarders among 8 golds for Japan". Mainichi.jo. September 26, 2026. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
- ↑ "Misaki Morota wins gold medal with a new Japanese record in women's pole vault, a remarkable achievement that breaks China's dominance for the first time... Asian Games". Hochi.news. September 25, 2026. Retrieved 26 Sep 2026.
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Tokyo
- Asian Games gold medalists
- Japanese women pole vaulters
- Japan Championships in Athletics winners
- 21st-century Japanese sportswomen
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- Asian Games athletes for Japan
- Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2026 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2026 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics