is a Japanese race walker. She competed in the 20 km kilometres event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Otoshi has been highly successful at the Asian Race Walking Championships. Her first appearance was in 2006, when she placed seventh, and she improved to fourth in 2007. She was the Asian 20 km runner-up in 2009 and 2010 and followed this with Asian title wins in 2011 and 2013.

Kumi Otoshi

She placed fourth at the 2007 Summer Universiade and came twelfth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Otoshi was the silver medallist behind Li Yanfei at the 2009 East Asian Games. In her second global appearance she came 22nd at the 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup. She figured in the top twenty at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, although her 19th-place finish was not improvement on her 2009 performance. She was one place higher at the 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Cup.

Kumi Otoshi

References

1985 births

Living people

Athletes from Tokyo

Japanese female racewalkers

Olympic female racewalkers

Olympic athletes for Japan

Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Competitors at the 2007 Summer Universiade

World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan

Japan Championships in Athletics winners

20th-century Japanese women

21st-century Japanese women

Kumi Otoshi