Mikio Oda

was a Japanese athlete. He is best known as a track and field) competitor in three Summer Olympic Games.Sports Reference.com (SR/Olympics), "Mikio Oda" ; retrieved 2012-7-20.

He was the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist. He was the first Asian Olympic champion in an individual event.International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), "Interview with Mikio Oda, first Japanese Olympic gold medallist,"  26 April 2010; retrieved on 2012-7-26.

Career
Oda's main event was triple jump, but he also competed in long jump and high jump.
He participated in all three events in the 1924 Summer Olympics, the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 games in Amsterdam, he won the gold medal in the triple jump event.Olympic.org, Mikio Oda; retrieved on 2012-7-26.

Oda later also set the world record in the sport, when he jumped for 15.58 m while studying in Waseda University during 1931.

He became a member of the Japanese Olympic Committee.

During the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the Olympic flag was raised to a height of exactly 15.21 meters, to pay respect to Oda's achievement 36 years earlier.

Related pages
 Sports in Japan
 Japan at the Olympics

References

Other websites
Extensive interview with Oda 

Category:1905 births
Category:1998 deaths
Category:Japanese athletes
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Japan
Category:Sportspeople from Hiroshima