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| Birth name | Akiko Hirao (Hirao Akiko) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | August 30, 1975 (age 48) Kita-Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan | ||||||||||||||
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Akiko Sekine (関根 明子, Sekine Akiko) (née Hirao; born August 30, 1975) is an athlete from Japan, who competes in triathlon. She competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She took seventeenth place with a total time of 2:04:18.70. She also competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She took twelfth place with a total time of 2:07:34.02.
