*anese sprinter

Saori Kitakaze (北風 沙織, Kitakaze Saori, born April 3, 1985 in Kushiro) is a *anese track and field sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. She is the joint *anese record holder in the 4×100 m relay, having run a time of 43.39:seconds alongside Momoko Takahashi, Chisato *ushima and Kana Ichikawa at the 2011 Seiko Golden Grand Prix.

He first international compe*ions came in 2004, when she took the bronze medal over 60 metres at the 2004 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships and reached the 100:m semi-finals at that year's World Junior Championships in Athletics. The following year she came fourth at the 2005 East Asian Games before helping the *anese women to the 4×100 m relay *le.

An appearance on the continental stage followed at the 2006 Asian Games (where she was seventh in the 100:m final) and a relay silver medal came at the 2007 Asian Athletics Championships. Kitakaze earned her first global level selection for *an that year, but her relay team was disqualified in the preliminary rounds of the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.

Contents

• 1 Personal bests
• 2 Records
• 3 Compe*ion record
  • 3.1 National Championship
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Personal bests

Records

• 4×100 m relay
  • Current *anese record holder - 43.39:s (relay leg:1st) (Kawasaki, 8 May 2011)

a with Momoko Takahashi, Chisato *ushima, and Kana Ichikawa

Compe*ion record

National Championship

References

External links

• Saori Kitakaze at World Athletics
• Saori Kitakaze at JAAF (in *anese)