Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Mutsuo•Taniguchi |
Used name | Mutsuo•Taniguchi |
Original name | 谷口•睦生 |
Born | 5 March 1913 in Kagami, Yatsuhiro, Kumamoto (JPN) |
Died | 2 October 1943 in ?, Bougainville (PNG) |
Measurements | 165 cm / 57 kg |
Affiliations | Kansai University, Suita (JPN) |
NOC | Japan |
Mutsuo Taniguchi already excelled as a sprinter attending Uto High School. Later he enrolled in the Kansai University. Together with the “Dawn super express” Takayoshi Yoshioka he was considered one of Japan’s best sprinters before World War II. At the 10th Far Eastern Games in Manila in 1934 Taniguchi placed second in the 200 metres behind Yoshioka but ahead of Bunta Suzuki. In a meeting against the USA he clocked 21.2 over the 200 on a straight track, becoming the last Japanese record holder in the 200 metres on a straight track. Domestically, he won the sprint double in 1934 and again won the 200 metres in 1938 at the Japan Athletics Championships. After competing in the Berlin Olympics, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Kansai University.
Taniguchi worked for the Yawata Steel Works (now part of Nippon Steel) before he was called to the service and transferred to the southern part of the Chinese front. In 1943 he was killed during the Battle of Bougainville Island (now part of Papua-New Guinea).
Personal Bests: 100 – 10.4 (1938); 200 – 21.5 (1938).
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Athletics | JPN | Mutsuo Taniguchi | |||
200 metres, Men (Olympic) | 5 h2 r2/4 | |||||
4 × 100 metres Relay, Men (Olympic) | Japan | AC h1 r1/2 |