Hiroki Ogita

Hiroki Ogita is one of those athletes who quietly earns your respect the more you think about him. A track and field competitor out of Kagawa Prefecture — yeah, udon country — who went on to train seriously at Kwansei Gakuin University, which has a solid sports tradition in the Kansai region. There's something I genuinely admire about people who dedicate themselves to a discipline that the general public barely notices outside of an Olympic year. No flashy career, no drama, just a guy from the Seto Inland Sea coast putting in the work lap after lap. That quiet grind is its own kind of statement.

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Hiroki Ogita is a Japanese pole vaulter born on December 30, 1987, in Kagawa Prefecture. A graduate of Kwansei Gakuin University who competes for Mizuno, he took part in the pole vault at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing.

Name (English)

Hiroki Ogita

Name (Japanese)

荻田大樹

Reading

おぎた ひろき

Born

December 30, 1987 (age 38)

Origin

Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

185 cm

Occupation

Track and field athlete

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

University

Kwansei Gakuin University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%BB%E7%94%B0%E5%A4%A7%E6%A8%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16641869

Tags

• From Kagawa Prefecture
• Track and field athlete

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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