Yuta Shitara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yuta Shitara

Japanese athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1991

Place of Birth: Saitama Prefecture, Kantō region, Japan

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Yuta Shitara (?? ??, Shitara Yuta, born 18 December 1991) is a Japanese long-distance runner.
He competed in the 10,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing finishing 23rd. Yuta Shitara competed in the 2018 edition of the Tokyo Marathon, where he, after falling off the lead pack at 32 km to seventh place, regrouped and advanced position to take second overall, at 2:06:11, which was a new Japanese National Record at the time.
In doing so, he also won a prize of 100 million yen (roughly $936,000) that was offered to any Japanese man who could run a new national record.