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Hiroshi Shibata

Japanese athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ41247319 ↗
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Hiroshi Shibata (柴田 宏, Shibata Hiroshi; born 26 July 1935) is a Japanese sprinter and triple jumper. He competed in the triple jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the triple jump and the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. After retiring, he has held a number of senior positions in athletics-related organisations, such as the Japan Association of Athletics Federations.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hiroshi Shibata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.