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<strong>PROFESSIONAL</strong> ATHLETE FIELDS<br />
WHEELCHAIR ATHLETES – MEN<br />
Kota Hokinoue<br />
Country: Japan<br />
Age: 42<br />
Date of Birth: March 30, 1974<br />
Residence: Fukuoka, Japan<br />
Personal Best: 1:21:14 Boston, MA, 2014<br />
New York City Marathon: 2014: 5th, 1:30:57; 2013: 5th, 1:40:16;<br />
2011: 3rd, 1:34:21; 2010: 6th, 1:42:44<br />
Career Highlights<br />
2015 Tokyo Marathon 1st 1:30:23<br />
2014 Berlin Marathon 1st 1:32:25<br />
2014 Bank of America Chicago Marathon 2nd 1:32:16<br />
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships Marathon 3rd 1:32:27<br />
2012 London Paralympic Marathon 6th 1:31:13<br />
Hokinoue, winner of the 2015 Tokyo Marathon and 2014 Berlin Marathon, broke the<br />
Japanese marathon record in 2011 when he clocked 1:22:01 to finish second in Osensingen.<br />
He lowered it again in 2014, taking second at the Boston Marathon in 1:21:14.<br />
He is also the Japanese record-holder at 5000 and 10,000 meters, and he picked up a<br />
bronze medal at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships Marathon in Lyon, France.<br />
Nicknamed “Hokki,” he began wheelchair racing in 2002 at the suggestion of a friend, just<br />
two years after injuring his spine in a motorcycle accident. He founded his own wheelchair<br />
racing team called Team Blue Tag 2 Arm Drive.<br />
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