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{{short description|Japanese long-distance runner}}
{{No footnotes|date=August 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{nihongo|'''Masako Chiba'''|千葉 真子|Chiba Masako|extra=born 18 July 1976 in [[Uji, Kyoto]]}} is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] long-distance runner, who won the bronze medal in [[10,000 metres]] at the [[1997 World Championships in Athletics|1997 World Championships]] in [[Athens]] and in the [[marathon race]] at the [[2003 World Championships in Athletics|2003 World Championships]] in [[Paris]].

Chiba was a torchbearer during the 1998 Nagano Olympics Opening Ceremony.

==Achievements==
{| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}}
|-
!colspan="6"|Representing {{JPN}}
|-
|rowspan=2|1997
|[[Athletics at the 1997 East Asian Games|East Asian Games]]
|[[Busan, South Korea]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|10,000 m
|31:31.85
|-
|[[1997 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Athens, Greece]]
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd
|10,000 m
|31:41.93
|-
|2001
|[[Hokkaido Marathon]]
|[[Sapporo, Japan]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|Marathon
|2:30:39
|-
|2003
|[[2003 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Paris, France]]
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd
|Marathon
|[[2003 World Championships in Athletics - Women's Marathon|2:25:09]]
|-
|2004
|[[Hokkaido Marathon]]
|[[Sapporo, Japan]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|Marathon
|2:26:50
|-
|2005
|[[Hokkaido Marathon]]
|[[Sapporo, Japan]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|Marathon
|2:25:46
|}

==Personal bests==
*[[5000 metres]] - 15:20.58 min (1997)
*[[10,000 metres]] - 31:20.46 min (1996)
*[[Half marathon]] - 1:09:27 hrs (1999)
*[[marathon race|Marathon]] - 2:21:45 hrs (2003)

==External links==
*{{World Athletics||name=Masako Chiba}}
*[http://marathoninfo.free.fr/athletes/chiba.htm marathoninfo]

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[[Category:1976 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Japanese athletics coaches]]
[[Category:Japanese female long-distance runners]]
[[Category:Japanese female marathon runners]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for Japan]]
[[Category:People from Uji, Kyoto]]
[[Category:Athletes from Kyoto Prefecture]]
[[Category:World Athletics Championships medalists]]
[[Category:20th-century Japanese sportswomen]]
[[Category:21st-century Japanese sportswomen]]


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