Ai Ueda

Ai Ueda is a Japanese triathlete, born on 26 October 1983 in Kyoto. She won the Asian Triathlon Championship in 2005 and 2008 and the ITU Duathlon World Championships in 2013. She represented Japan in triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she took 17th place, and at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she placed 39th. After finishing high school she moved to Chiba to dedicate herself fully to triathlon, won the Junior Asian Championships that year, and became an elite triathlete in 2003. Between 2002 and 2010 she took part in 88 ITU competitions and achieved 29 top ten positions, including 12 gold medals, and in the 2010 world ranking she stood 31st among elite women.