fullname event club headercolor birth_place weight height pb sport birth_date residence article_title name
mahau camargo suguimati 400 metres hurdles atlético clube paranavaí -lrb- bra -rrb- lightblue são miguel do araguaia , goiás , brazil 77 kg lb 0 on 1.84 0 on '' s -lrb- 2009 -rrb- ' 400 m hurdles '' ' : 48.67 athletics 13 november 1984 niiza , saitama prefecture , japan mahau suguimati
 mahau suguimati
mahau suguimati

mahau camargo suguimati -lrb- born november 13 , 1984 in são miguel do araguaia , goiás -rrb- is a brazilian track hurdler of japanese ancestry .
since the age of eight , suguimati had lived and studied for sixteen years in niiza , saitama prefecture , japan .
suguimati also attended schools around the prefecture , where he discovered his natural ability and talent of running and hurdling , under his personal coach and trainer atsushi hishinuma .
he made his international debut , and represented his birth nation brazil at the 2007 pan american games in rio de janeiro , where he finished seventh in the final of the 400 m hurdles , with his personal best time of 49.63 seconds .
suguimati qualified for the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , after claiming the gold medal from the brazil trophy box in sao paulo , with an a-standard time of 49.15 seconds .
he ran in the first heat of the men 's 400 m hurdles , against six other athletes , including bershawn jackson of the united states , who eventually won the bronze medal in the final .
he finished the race in third place by a quarter second margin -lrb- 0.25 -rrb- behind jackson , and twenty-one hundredths of a second behind south africa 's pieter de villiers , with a time of 49.45 seconds .
suguimati qualified directly for the next round , as he secured the last mandatory place from the first heat .
in the semi-final round , suguimati , however , felt short in his bid to advance into the final round , when he placed seventh in the second heat , outside his personal best of 50.16 seconds .
at the 2011 pan american games in guadalajara , mexico , suguimati missed out of the medal podium , when he finished fifth in the final of the men 's 400 m hurdles , by two hundredths of a second faster from his first personal best , with a time of 49.61 seconds .
