Hanji Aoki
Hanji Aoki (青木 半治, Aoki Hanji, 16 July 1915 – 30 May 2010) was a Japanese sports official.
He hailed from Chiba Prefecture. He was an active shot putter in his younger days, and became Japanese champion in 1938. He was president of the Japanese Olympic Committee from 1969 to 1973 and the Japan Association of Athletics Federations from 1975 to 1999, and vice president of the International Association of Athletics Federations from 1991 to 1999. At stepping down he was titled as honorary life vice president.[1]
He was decorated with the Olympic Order in silver in 1985,[2] the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1986 and the IAAF Golden Order of Merit in 2007. Since 1988 he was an honorary citizen of Tokyo. He died from heart failure in 2010.[1]
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Preceded by Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda | President of the Japanese Olympic Committee 1969–1973 | Succeeded by Masashi Tabata |
Preceded by | President of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations 1975–1999 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by Kenji Fukunaga | Chairman of the Japan Sports Association 1989–1993 | Succeeded by Sumiko Takahara |
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- 1913: Tamotsu Tatsuno
- 1914: Kinichi Goto
- 1915: Satoshi Suzuki
- 1916: Tetsugoro Ito
- 1917–18: Shosuke Nakamura
- 1919: Hiroshi Masuda
- 1920: Tadaomi Nimura
- 1921: Mitsuzo Hanai
- 1922: Yoshio Sarumaru
- 1923: Sueyoshi Yokokawa
- 1924: Not held
- 1925: Kazuo Higuchi
- 1926: Sueyoshi Mizokawa
- 1927: Shizuo Takada
- 1928: Sueyoshi Ishida
- 1929: Mae Saito
- 1930–31: Shizuo Takada
- 1932: Denjiro Kurihara
- 1933–35: Shizuo Takada
- 1936–37: Yoshiro Kamidai
- 1938: Hanji Aoki
- 1939: Taisuke Nishida
- 1940: Hidematsu Nagakura
- 1941: Not held
- 1942: Seihei Nishimura
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946–48: Seihei Nishimura
- 1949: Takashi Kimura
- 1950–51 Fuo Denda
- 1952 Norimi Sato
- 1953–54: Yoshio Kojima
- 1955–59: Hitoshi Goto
- 1960: Shozo Yanagawa
- 1961–62: Teruo Itokawa
- 1963: Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG)
- 1964: Yoshihisa Ishida
- 1965: Ichiro Watanabe
- 1966–67: Yoshihisa Ishida
- 1968–77: Masazumi Aoki
- 1978–79: Yuzo Koyama
- 1980: Yoshihisa Urita
- 1981: Tetsushi Ikegawa
- 1982: Shigenori Miura
- 1983: Yoshihisa Urita
- 1984: Yoshio Ito
- 1985–87: Yoshihisa Urita
- 1988: Toshiyuki Yamato
- 1989: Yuji Okano
- 1990: Sergey Nikolayev (URS)
- 1991: Gheorghe Gușet (ROM)
- 1992: Yuji Okano
- 1993: Adewale Olukoju (NGR)
- 1994–96: Yuji Okano
- 1997–2001: Yasutada Noguchi
- 2002: Satoshi Hatase
- 2003: Yasutada Noguchi
- 2004: Yohei Murakawa
- 2005–07: Satoshi Hatase
- 2008: Yohei Murakawa
- 2009: Sotaro Yamada
- 2010: Satoshi Hatase
- 2011: Yohei Murakawa
- 2012–18: Satoshi Hatase
- 2019: Hisashi Takeda
- 2020: Shinichi Yukinaga
- 2021: Reiji Takeda
- 2022: Hikaru Murakami
- 2023: Hitoshi Okumura
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