A Quick Guide to the Potential Japanese Team for the Budapest World Championships

There's still over a month to go until the qualifying deadline for August's Budapest World Championships. As it stands right now eight women and seventeen men have been named to the team based on the primary criteria of having the qualifying standard and having placed top three at this year's National Championships or the special criteria in events like relays and the marathon. But with a lot of Japanese athletes comfortably inside their event's quota for qualification based on world rankings those numbers will at least double by the July 30 deadline. 

A quick guide to the most likely candidates for making the final team and those realistically in range of getting into the quota is below. Numbers after event headers are the current quota cutoff score for that event. Numbers after athletes' names are the current world ranking score for anyone who doesn't have the standard in their event. For athletes who do have the standard, their current rank out of the number of places in their event is given. Athletes in bold have already been named to the Budapest team based on the criteria above.

Women

800 m (1149)

Ayano Shiomi (1149) - 3rd, Nationals

1500 m (1115)

Nozomi Tanaka (1207) - 1st, Nationals

Yume Goto (1164) - 2nd, Nationals

5000 m (1129)

Nozomi Tanaka (1217) - 1st, Nationals

Yuma Yamamoto (1151) - 8th, Nationals

Ririka Hironaka (1151) - 21st, Nationals

Nanami Watanabe (1140) - 4th, Nationals

Wakana Kabasawa (1132) - 10th, Nationals

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Nagisa Shimotabira (1125) - 7th, Nationals

10000 m (1166)

Ririka Hironaka (17/28) - 30:39.71

100 mH (1185)

Mako Fukube (16/40) - 12.73 +1.1 m/s - 4th, Nationals

Yumi Tanaka (1236) - 3rd, Nationals

Masumi Aoki (1233) - 2nd, Nationals

Asuka Terada (1219) - 1st, Nationals

Chisato Kiyoyama (1194) - 5th, Nationals

400 mH (1140)

Ami Yamamoto (1146) - 1st, Nationals

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Eri Utsunomiya (1138) - 2nd, Nationals

Long Jump (1159)

Sumire Hata (1222) - 1st, Nationals

Triple Jump (1128)

Mariko Morimoto (1177) - 1st, Nationals

Maoko Takashima (1129) - 2nd, Nationals

Javelin Throw (1061)

Haruka Kitaguchi (5/36) - 65.68 - 2nd, Nationals

Marina Saito (1155) - 1st, Nationals

Mahiro Osa (1112) - 4th, Nationals

Momone Ueda (1079) - 3rd, Nationals

Yuka Sato (1057) - 5th, Nationals

Kiho Kuze (1054) - 9th, Nationals

Marathon

Mizuki Matsuda (14/98) - 2:20:52

Rika Kaseda (16/98) - 2:21:55

Sayaka Sato (17/98) - 2:22:13

20 kmRW (1088)

Nanako Fujii (17/50) - 1:29:01

Kumiko Okada (1158)

Ayane Yanai (1129)

Serena Sonoda (1110)

Miyu Naito (1091)

35 kmRW

Kumiko Okada (9/50) - 2:44:11

Serena Sonoda (10/50) - 2:44:25

Masumi Fuchise (34/50) - 2:54:29

Men

100 m (1189)

Ryuichiro Sakai (1244) - 1st, Nationals

Hiroki Yanagita (1194) - 2nd, Nationals

Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (1189) - 8th, Nationals

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Yuki Koike (1187) - 3rd, Nationals

Taju Hongo (1186) - 5th, Nationals

200 m (1174)

Towa Uzawa (1216) - 1st, Nationals

Shota Iizuka (1176) - 5th, Nationals

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Soshi Mizukubo (1163) - 3rd, Nationals

400 m (1163)

Yuki Joseph Nakajima (1239) - 1st, Nationals

Kentaro Sato (1192) - 3rd, Nationals

Fuga Sato (1177) - 2nd, Nationals

Kenki Imaizumi (1177) - 4th, Nationals

5000 m (1162)

Kazuya Shiojiri (1186) - 1st, Nationals

Hyuga Endo (1178) - 2nd, Nationals

Keita Sato (1173) - 4th, Nationals

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Yuta Bando (1160) - 24th, Nationals

110 mH (1182)

Shunsuke Izumiya (5/40) - 13.04 -0.9 m/s - 1st, Nationals

Shunya Takayama (9/40) - 13.10 +0.6 m/s - 2nd, Nationals

Rachid Muratake (15/40) - 13.25 +0.3 m/s

Shuhei Ishikawa (1245) - 4th, Nationals

Taiga Yokochi (1198) - 3rd, Nationals

Higashi Ishida-Thomas (1188)

400 mH (1159)

Yusaku Kodama (1221) - 3rd, Nationals

Takayuki Kishimoto (1203) - 8th, Nationals

Kazuki Kurokawa (1199)

Kaito Tsutsue (1196) - 5th, Nationals

Tenjiro Tanaka (1181)

Daiki Ogawa (1168) - 1st, Nationals

Hiromu Yamauchi (1165) - 2nd, Nationals

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Tatsuhiro Yamamoto (1158)

Haruto Deguchi (1157) - 6th, Nationals

3000 mSC (1161)

Ryuji Miura (5/36) - 8:09.91 - 1st, Nationals

Ryoma Aoki (1177) - 7th, Nationals

Seiya Sunada (1161) - 2nd, Nationals

High Jump (1144)

Ryoichi Akamatsu (1237) - 1st, Nationals

Tomohiro Shinno (1224) - 3rd, Nationals

Yuto Seko (1171) - 5th, Nationals

Naoto Hasegawa (1146) - 2nd, Nationals

Pole Vault (1153)

Seito Yamamoto (1157) - NM, Nationals

Long Jump (1175)

Hiromichi Yoshida (14/36) - 8.26 m +1.0 m/s - 10th, Nationals

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Shotaro Shiroyama (1167) - 1st, Nationals

Triple Jump (1132)

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Hikaru Ikehata (1124) - 1st, Nationals

Javelin Throw (1101)

Roderick Genki Dean (1215) - 1st, Nationals

Ryohei Arai (1143) - 2nd, Nationals

Yuta Sakiyama (1140) - 3rd, Nationals

Kenji Ogura (1140) - 10th, Nationals

Marathon

Ichitaka Yamashita (16/99) - 2:05:51

Kenya Sonota (18/99) - 2:05:59

Kazuya Nishiyama (25/99) - 2:06:45

20 kmRW

Toshikazu Yamanishi (1/50) - defending champion - 1:19:07

Koki Ikeda (5/50) - 1:18:36

Eiki Takahashi (10/50) - 1:19:04

Yuta Koga (13/50) - 1:19:19

35 kmRW

Tomohiro Noda (4/50) - 2:23:13

Masatora Kawano (5/50) - 2:23:15

Satoshi Maruo (11/50) - 2:25:49

4x400 m Relay 

Japan (4/16)

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