Masazumi Soejima
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.
 Soejima during the 2009 Boston Marathon | ||
| Medal record | ||
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| Track and field (athletics) | ||
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| Paralympic Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2004 Athens | 4x400m - T53-54 |
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
- http://espn.go.com/blog/olympics/tag/_/name/masazumi-soejima
- profile on paralympic.org
- Elite Wheelchair Race. Tokyo Marathon. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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