is a Japanese female javelin thrower who is the reigning world champion in women's javelin throw.
Kitaguchi won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships and has set Japanese national records in the discipline, throwing 66.00 m at the Honjo Athletic Stadium in Kitakyushu in 2019 and 67.38 m at the Memorial Van Damme event in Brussels in 2023. At the 2022 World Athletics Championships she won a bronze medal, which made her the first Japanese woman to win a medal in any throwing event at a World Championships or Olympics.
In 2023, in her best achievement, she won the gold medal in javelin throw, in her 6th and final throw at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
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1998 births
Living people
Japanese female javelin throwers
Japan Championships in Athletics winners
World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships winners
Olympic athletes for Japan
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic female javelin throwers
21st-century Japanese women
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade silver medalists for Japan Diamond League winners Sportspeople from Hokkaido