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About Kiyonari Shibata
- Kiyonari Shibata (Japanese: ?? ??; born 27 March 1973) is a Japanese former track and field athlete and middle-distance runner. He is the current Japanese record holder for the mile run, with a personal best of 3:58.89 minutes.
- His time, set on 11 May 1996, made him the second Japanese man to run a sub-four-minute mile, after Takashi Ishii, who had done so nearly twenty years earlier in 1977.
- Shibata's 1500 metres best of 3:39.45 minutes is also among the best times for the event by a Japanese, behind Fumikazu Kobayashi and Ishii.Despite his breaking a long-standing national record, Shibata only won at the Japan Championships in Athletics on one occasion, taking the 1500 m title in 1997.
- That same year he won a gold medal in the event at the East Asian Games in a then games record time of 3:49.90 minutes.
- The following year he won the second and final international medal of his career at the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships by finishing as runner-up behind multiple Asian champion Mohamed Suleiman.
- He also ran at the 1998 Asian Games and placed seventh in the 1500 m final.He represented his home region, Toyama Prefecture, twice at the All-Japan Interprefectural Ekiden Championships.
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