Shingo Suetsugu

is a Japanese sprinter. He is a former Asian record holder in the 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay.

Running career

Suetsugu won a bronze medal in the 200 metres event at the 2003 IAAF World Championships in a time of 20.38 seconds. The same year he set an Asian record of 20.03 seconds at the Japanese national championships, and also won the 100 metres in 10.13 seconds. Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he reached the second round in the 100 metres.

Olympics

Suetsugu represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 4×100 metres relay together with Naoki Tsukahara, Shinji Takahira and Nobuharu Asahara. In their qualification heat they placed second behind Trinidad and Tobago, but in front of the Netherlands and Brazil. Their time of 38.52 was the third fastest out of sixteen participating nations in the first round, and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.15 seconds, the third fastest after the Jamaican and Trinidad teams, winning the bronze medal.

Personal bests

{| class=wikitable

!Event

!Time

!Wind

!Venue

!Date

!Notes

|100 m

|10.03 s

| +1.8 m/s

|Mito, Japan

|5 May 2003

|Japan's 5th-fastest time

|200 m

|20.03 s

| +0.6 m/s

|Yokohama, Japan

|7 June 2003

|Japan's record

|400 m

|45.99 s

|Machida, Japan

|18 August 2002

Records

100 metres
Former Japanese university record holder - 10.05 s (wind: +1.9 m/s) (Mito, 6 May 2002)
200 metres
Former Asian record holder - 20.03 s (wind: +0.6 m/s) (Yokohama, 7 June 2003)
Current Japanese record holder - 20.03 s (wind: +0.6 m/s) (Yokohama, 7 June 2003)
Former Japanese university record holder - 20.26 s (wind: -0.9 m/s) (Yokohama, 9 September 2000)
4 × 100 m relay
Former Asian record holder - 38.03 s (relay leg: 2nd) (Osaka, 1 September 2007)
Former Japanese university record holder - 38.57 s (relay leg: 2nd) (Tokyo, 29 September 2001)
Medley relay (100m×200m×300m×400m)
Former Japanese university record holder - 1:50.21 s (relay leg: 2nd) (Yokohama, 15 September 2001)

: with Naoki Tsukahara, Shinji Takahira, and Nobuharu Asahara

: with Hisashi Miyazaki, Toshiyuki Fujimoto, and Masayuki Okusako

International competition record

!colspan="6"|Representing

|rowspan=2|1999

|rowspan=2|Asian Junior Championships

|rowspan=2|Singapore

|bgcolor=cc9966|

|100 m

|10.68 (wind: -0.1 m/s)

|bgcolor="gold"|

|4 × 100 m relay

|39.86 (relay leg: 3rd)

|rowspan=2|2000

|rowspan=2|Olympics

|rowspan=2|Sydney, Australia

| (sf)

|200 m

|20.69 (wind: +0.3 m/s)

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.66 (relay leg: 3rd)

|rowspan=4|2001

|rowspan=2|East Asian Games

|rowspan=2|Osaka, Japan

|bgcolor="gold"|

|200 m

|20.34 (wind: 0.0 m/s) GR

|bgcolor="gold"|

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.93 (relay leg: 3rd) GR

|rowspan=2|World Championships

|rowspan=2|Edmonton, Canada

| (sf)

|200 m

|20.39 (wind: +0.7 m/s)

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.96 (relay leg: 2nd)

|rowspan=2|2002

|rowspan=2|Asian Games

|rowspan=2|Busan, South Korea

|bgcolor="gold"|

|200 m

|20.38 (wind: 0.0 m/s)

|bgcolor="silver"|

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.90 (relay leg: 2nd)

|rowspan=2|2003

|World Championships

|Saint-Denis, France

|bgcolor=cc9966|

|200 m

|20.38 (wind: +0.1 m/s)

|Afro-Asian Games

|Hyderabad, India

|bgcolor=cc9966|

|100 m

|10.36 (wind: -0.6 m/s)

|rowspan=2|2004

|rowspan=2|Olympics

|rowspan=2|Athens, Greece

| (qf)

|100 m

|10.19 (wind: 0.0 m/s)

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.49 (relay leg: 2nd)

|rowspan=4|2005

|rowspan=2|World Championships

|rowspan=2|Helsinki, Finland

| (sf)

|200 m

|20.84 (wind: -0.3 m/s)

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.77 (relay leg: 1st)

|rowspan=2|Asian Championships

|rowspan=2|Incheon, South Korea

|bgcolor=silver|

|100 m

|10.42 (wind: -0.3 m/s)

|bgcolor=gold|

|4 × 100 m relay

|39.10 (relay leg: 4th)

|rowspan=4|2006

|rowspan=2|World Cup

|rowspan=2|Athens, Greece

|bgcolor=cc9966|

|200 m

|20.30 (wind: +0.1 m/s)

|bgcolor=cc9966|

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.51 (relay leg: 2nd)