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Doha World Championships Day One Japanese Results


A teammate of last week's Japanese Olympic marathon trials 1st and 3rd placers Honami Maeda and Rei Ohara, Mizuki Tanimoto kicked off the Doha World Championships with a 7th-place finish in the women's marathon. Starting off overly conservatively with Worlds teammates Madoka Nakano and Ayano Ikemitsu, Tanimoto was far behind the lead pack that included all three eventual medalists after just one time around the six-lap course.

Hitting halfway in 1:20:11 and 33rd place, Tanimoto was one of the few people in the race to negative split, making a huge jump in position from 25 to 30 km and working her way up to land 7th in 2:39:09, just over six minutes behind winner Ruth Chepngetich (Kenya). Nakano finished 11th in 2:42:39 seconds behind 10th-placer Un Ok Jo (North Korea). In a field of just 68 starters, 28 women dropped out partway, including all five Ethiopian-born athletes. Struggling early, Ikemitsu hung on through 30 km before stepping off the course.

In qualifying action, all three Japanese men in the 100 m made it through to the semifinals, national record holder Abdul Hakim Sani Brown leading the way in 10.09. Takatoshi Abe and Masaki Toyoda lkewise both made it through in the men's 400 m Hurdles, with Yuki Hashioka and Shotaro Shiroyama doing the same in the men's long jump. Third long jump Hibiki Tsuha failed to make with a best jump of 7.72, while 19-year-old Reimi Yoshimura, a last-minute addition to the team, also fell short of making the women's 3000 m steeplechase in her World Championships debut.

Doha World Athletics Championships

Day One Japanese Results
Doha, Qatar, 27 Sept. 2019
complete results

Finals

Women's Marathon
1. Ruth Chepngetich (Kenya) -2:32:43
2. Rose Chelimo (Bahrain) - 2:33:46
3. Helalia Johannes (Namibia) - 2:34:15
4. Edna Kiplagat (Kenya) - 2:35:36
5. Volha Mazuronak (Belarus) - 2:36:21
6. Roberta Groner (U.S.A.) - 2:38:44
7. Mizuki Tanimoto (Japan) - 2:39:09
8. Ji Hyang Kim (North Korea) - 2:41:24
9. Lyndsay Tessier (Canada) - 2:42:03
10. Un Ok Jo (North Korea) - 2:42:23
11. Madoka Nakano (Japan) - 2:42:39
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DNF - Ayana Ikemitsu (Japan)

Qualifying Rounds

Men's 100 m Heat 4 -0.3 m/s
1. Yohan Blake (Jamaica) - 10.07 - Q
2. Jimmy Vicaut (France) - 10.08 - Q
3. Arthur Cisse (Cote D'Ivoire) - 10.14 - Q
4. Yoshihide Kiryu (Japan) - 10.18 - q
5. Bingtian Su (China) - 10.21 - q
6. Kuk Young Kim (South Korea) - 10.32
7. Vitor Hugo Dos Santos (Brazil) - 10.42
8. Hakeem Huggins (St. Kitts & Nevis) - 10.62

Men's 100 m Heat 5 -0.3 m/s
1. Paulo Andre Camilo de Olivera (Brazil) - 10.11 - Q
2. Michael Rodgers (U.S.A.) - 10.14 - Q
3. Filippo Tortu (Italy) - 10.20  Q
4. Yuki Koike (Japan) - 10.21 - q
5. Hassan Taftian (Iran) - 10.24
6. Thando Dlodlo (South Africa) - 10.25
7. Owaab Barrow (Qatar) - 12.82

Men's 100 m Heat 4 -0.3 m/s
1. Christian Coleman (U.S.A.) - 9.98 - Q
2. Lamont Marcell Jacobs (Italy) - 10.07 - Q
3. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Japan) - 10.09 - Q
4. Rodrigo Do Nascimento (Brazil) - 10.25
5. Mario Burke (Barbados) - 10.31
6. Lalu Muhammad Zohri (Indonesia) - 10.36
7. Alex Wilson (Switzerland) - 10.38

Men's 400 m Hurdles Heat 3
1. Anderrahman Samba (Qatar) - 49.08 - Q
2. Takatoshi Abe (Japan) - 49.25 - Q
3. TJ Holmes (U.S.A.) - 49.50 - Q
4. Rilwan Alowonle (Nigeria) - 50.04 - Q
5. Nick Smidt (Netherlands) - 50.54
6. Kariem Hussein (Switzerland) - 50.62
7. Wilfried Happio (France) - 51.25
8. Andrew Ercolani Volta (San Marino) - 52.60 - NR

Men's 400 m Hurdles Heat 4
1. Rai Benjamin (U.S.A.) - 49.62 - Q
2. Mohamed Touati (Tunisia) - 49.76 - Q
3. Patryk Dobek (Poland) - 49.89 - Q
4. Vit Muller (Czech Republic) - 50.15 - Q
5. Masaki Toyoda (Japan) - 50.34 - q
6. Sergio Fernandez (Spain) - 50.71
7. Marcio Teles (Brazil) - 51.02

Women's 3000 m Steeplechase Heat 2
1. Beatrice Chepkoech (Kenya) - 9:18.01 - Q
2. Courtney Frerichs (USA) - 9:18.42 - Q
3. Gesa Felicitas Krause (Germany) - 9:18.82 - Q
4. Anna Emilie Moller (Denmark) - 9:18.92 - q - NR
5. Luiza Gega (Albania) - 9:28.32 - q
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13. Reimi Yoshimura (Japan) - 9:55.72

Men's Long Jump Qualification Round
1. Juan Miguel Echevarria (Cuba) - 8.40 m -0.6 m/s - Q
2. Jeff Henderson (U.S.A.) - 8.12 -0.7 m/s - q
3. Yuki Hashioka (Japan) - 8.07 m -0.7 m/s - q
4. Steffin McCarter (U.S.A.) - 8.04 m -0.8 m/s - q
5. Ruswahl Samaai (South Africa) - 8.01 m -0.2 m/s - q
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8. Shotaro Shiroyama (Japan) - 7.94 m -0.6 m/s - q
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18. Hibiki Tsuha (Japan) - 7.72 m -0.1 m/s

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