Yuichiro Ueno

Who is Yuichiro Ueno?

Yuichiro Ueno is a Japanese long-distance runner, who specializes in the 1500 and 5000 metres events.

Ueno began his international career at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships where he ran in the junior race in 2004, then in the senior short race for the two years following that. He represented Japan in the International Chiba Ekiden in 2007, starting off the race with the second fastest leg, behind Moses Ndiema Masai. Japan went on to win the competition.

He won in the 1500 m and 5000 m at the 2009 Japan Championships in Athletics, beating his teammate Kensuke Takezawa in the latter race. He finished sixteenth in his heat in the 5000 m at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. He won bronze medals in the 1500 m and 5000 m at the East Asian Games later that year.

Ueno competed for Nagano in the 2011 Inter-Prefectural Men's Ekiden and ran in the final 13 km leg, improving the prefecture to second place in the final rankings behind Tochigi. Later that year he ran the opening leg of the International Chiba Ekiden and the Japanese team went on to finish as runner-up behind Kenya.

He is managed by Toshihiko Seko of S&B Foods.