Asuka Terada

Asuka Terada (寺田 明日香, Terada Asuka, born 14 January 1990, in Sapporo) is a Japanese athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles.

[2] She twice represented her country at the World Championships, first at the 2009 edition in Berlin and then over a decade later at the 2019 edition in Doha.

Her personal best in the event is 12.86 seconds (+0.7 m/s) set in Osaka in 2023.

This is the current national record.

After marriage and childbirth, she decided to return to sport in 2017, first giving rugby a try and a year later coming back to athletics.