Hitomi Niiya

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hitomi Niiya
Occupation	Marathon Runner
Date Of Birth	Feb 26, 1988(1988-02-26)
Age	36
Birthplace	Soja
Country	Japan
Birth City	Okayama Prefecture
Horoscope	Aquarius

Hitomi Niiya Biography

Hitomi Niiya is one of the most popular and richest Marathon Runner who was born on February 26, 1988 in Soja, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Hitomi Niiya, Xin Gu Ren Mei, Niiya Hitomi was born 26 February 1988 in Soja (OKama). She is a Japanese long-distance runner. Niiya represented Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is a two time silver medallist at Asian Athletics Championships. She has also represented Japan three times at World Athletics Championships (2011 and 2013). In national competition, she represents Team Toyota Industries.

Japan’s Ameba denboba, from Ethiopia, was just ahead of her on the final leg to propel Japan into the top three. After graduation from high school, she decided to run full-time under Yoshio Koide who was the coach of Naoko Takahashi, an Olympic champion. In 2007, the Tokyo Marathon was relaunched. Niiya entered the race as one of the thousands of public runners and won the women’s race. She ran 2:31:01 for her first attempt at the distance.

Her third marathon came in March 2009 at the Nagoya Marathon – she was leading at 30 km and although she achieved a personal best time of 2:30:58, she slowed in the latter stages and finished eighth. At the Oda Memorial in April she won the 5000 m with a personal best time of 15:23.27 minutes. The following year, a third-place finish in Fukuoka gained her a place on the senior team for the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where she finished in 31st place.

Her 2011 season began with two domestic victories at the Chiba and Fukuoka Cross Country races, winning by large margins in both. At the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships she finished in 26th place, helping Japan to seventh in the women’s team rankings. On the track, she ran a 5000 m best of 15:13.12 minutes in June then claimed the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships silver medal in the event a month later, finishing behind Ethiopian-born Bahraini Tejitu Daba. She was selected for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and reached the 5000 m final, coming 13th overall. At the Chiba International Ekiden in November she ran a stage record on the final leg to help Japan to second place behind Kenya.

Niiya was able to repeat her thirteenth place and team bronze finishes at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships junior races, but she began to shift towards road running competitions.

Hitomi Niiya Net Worth

Hitomi Niiya is one of the richest Marathon Runner from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hitomi Niiya 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Niiya was a senior high school student at Kojokan Senior High School. She began running cross-country while there and started competing in track and fields. After winning the junior selection race in Chiba Cross Country’s Chiba Cross Country, Niiya was invited to make her international debut at 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Her nineteenth-place finish led the Japanese junior women to a bronze medal. In February 2005, she won her second consecutive Chiba Cross Country victory. She was then able to return to the world event in 2005. She moved up to thirteenth and helped the Japanese team win another bronze, alongside Yurika Nakamura and Akane Wakita. She won her first international medal at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Marrakesh, where she took home bronze in the 3000 m. She was the only local winner of the 3000 m at 2005 National Sports Festival of Japan, Okayama. She won the inter-highschool championships that year and ran the second fastest Japanese high school student time in the 5000m. This gave her the title of champion with a time 15:28.70.

From 2004 to 2006 she was part of the Japanese junior cross country team that won team medals at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. At the 2005 World Youth Championships, she won a bronze medal for her over 5000m. Niiya won her first marathon at age eighteen, the 2007 Tokyo Marathon. She ran a personal best of 2:30:58 hours. In ekiden relay racing, she has had success representing Japan at the Yokohama International Women’s Ekiden. She also helped Toyota Industries win their first domestic team title. She holds the Japanese record for the half-marathon (1:06:38), which she set at the Houston Half Marathon.

In March 2008, she debuted in the half marathon, finishing with a time of 1:11:41 hours to take third place behind Mara Yamauchi and Rie Takayoshi at the Matsue Ladies Half Marathon. She competed in her second marathon that August but found herself behind Yukari Sahaku (also coached by Koide) and finished in second place at the Hokkaido Marathon. Her year ended on a high note as she helped Toyota Industries to their first title at the All Japan Corporate Team Women’s Ekiden Championships.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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She returned to competition in 2018 following rehabilitation for her injury and became the first Japanese winner at the Zatopek 10K in Australia in December 2018, setting a long-term aim to make the team for Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She marked her return to the international stage the following year with a silver medal over 10,000 m at the 2019 Asian Athletics Championships, third at the Japanese Athletics Championships, then eleventh at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. In January 2020 Niiya surprised the field at the Houston Half Marathon by winning in a Japanese record time of 66:38. She won by a minute-and-a-half, and beat the previous Japanese half- marathon record by 48 seconds.

Facts & Trivia

Hitomi Ranked on the list of most popular Marathon Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Hitomi Niiya celebrates birthday on February 26 of every year.