Taku Fujimoto

Taku Fujimoto is the kind of athlete who makes you reconsider what quiet dedication actually looks like. Born September 11, 1989, he's a long-distance runner — the sort of discipline that gets zero glamour and demands everything. There's no flashy highlight reel in distance running, just kilometers of suffering compressed into race times. He came up through Kokushikan University, which has a solid track and field pedigree, so this wasn't some casual pursuit; he committed hard. He beat Suguru Osako to win back-to-back Kanto Intercollegiate 5000m titles, then turned himself into a marathoner who ran 2:07:57 in Chicago and was eventually named the 2019 Fukuoka champion after a doping disqualification, before retiring in 2022. That reads to me like a guy who just puts his head down and runs.

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Taku Fujimoto is a retired Japanese long-distance runner born on September 11, 1989, in Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture. A graduate of Kozui High School and Kokushikan University, he ran for Toyota, clocked 2:07:57 at the 2018 Chicago Marathon and was later awarded the 2019 Fukuoka International Marathon title after the winner was disqualified for doping. He retired after the 2022 Tokyo Marathon.

Name (English)

Taku Fujimoto

Name (Japanese)

藤本拓

Reading

ふじもと たく

Born

September 11, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Height

166 cm

Occupation

Long-distance runner / Track and field athlete

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Junior high

Kozui Junior High School

High school

Kozui High School

University

Kokushikan University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%97%A4%E6%9C%AC%E6%8B%93
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28692319

Tags

• long-distance runner
• track and field
• athlete

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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