Kenichi Ito (athlete)
Japanese four-legged runner (born 1982)
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Kenichi Ito (Japanese: いとう けんいち, Hepburn: Itō Ken'ichi; real name: 伊藤 健一; born 8 May 1982) is a Japanese athlete from Tokyo. He has held the Guinness World Record for running 100 meters on all four limbs, multiple times, most recently from 6 November 2015 until 30 June 2022. The current record is held by Collin McClure.[1] Ito set a best time of 15.71 seconds in Tokyo's Komazawa Olympic Park, shaving 0.15 seconds off the previous record of 15.86 seconds, by Katsumi Tamakoshi.[2] Before Tamakoshi's record, Ito held the record of 16.87 seconds, set on 14 November 2013.[3] He also held the record before that, having set a time of 17.47 seconds on 15 November 2012,[4] and the record before that of 18.58 seconds in 2008.[5] Ito spent nine years studying how animals like African patas monkeys move. He used to work as a janitor and mopped floors on all fours to practice his four-limbed running technique. As of 2016, he runs a company dealing in solar energy.[6] He can be seen chasing a man in the video for the song "My Love Is My Disease" by the Australian rock band the Jezabels.
