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JAAF Announces Team of 58 for September's Hangzhou Asian Games

The JAAF has announced a team of 58 for September's rescheduled Hangzhou Asian Games, something on a par with the Commonwealth Games but with a bigger share of the world's population. 22 women and 36 men will stretch out a long season spanning over two months from the Bangkok Asian Championships to the Budapest World Championships to Hangzhou in quest of points for next year's Paris Olympics.

Women

100 m
Arisa Kimishima - 11.36

200 m
Arisa Kimishima - 23.17

800 m
Ayano Shiomi - 2:02.57

1500 m
Yume Goto - 4:09.41

5000 m
Ririka Hironaka - 14:52.84
Yuma Yamamoto - 15:16.71

10000 m 
Ririka Hironaka - 30:39.71
Haruka Kokai - 32:01.83

100 mH 
Masumi Aoki  - 12.86
Yumi Tanaka - 12.89

400 mH 
Ami Yamamoto - 56.06

Pole Vault
Misaki Morota - 4.41 m

Long Jump 
Sumire Hata - 6.75 m

Triple Jump 
Mariko Morimoto - 14.16 m

Javelin Throw
Sae Takemoto - 62.39 m
Marina Saito - 62.37 m

20 kmRW
Nanako Fujii - 1:28:58
Yukiko Umeno - 1:33:38

35 kmRW
Maika Yagi - 2:55:55
Masumi Fuchise - 2:57:51

Marathon
Hikari Onishi - 2:25:54
Mirai Waku - 2:25:58

Heptathlon
Yuki Yamasaki - 5975
Karin Odama - 5720

Men

100 m
Yoshihide Kiryu - 9.98
Yuki Koike - 9.98

200 m 
Koki Ueyama - 20.26
Towa Uzawa - 20.32

400 m
Fuga Sato - 45.26
Kentaro Sato - 45.31

800 m
Sho Kawamoto - 1:45.75

1500 m
Kazuki Kawamura - 3:35.42
Kazuto Iizawa - 3:36.55

5000 m
Kazuya Shiojiri - 13:16.53
Keita Sato - 13:22.91

10000 m
Ren Tazawa - 27:23.44
Kazuya Shiojiri - 27:45.18

110 mH
Shunya Takayama - 13.10
Shuhei Ishikawa - 13.36

400 mH
Kazuki Kurokawa - 48.68
Yusaku Kodama - 48.77

3000 mSC
Ryoma Aoki - 8:20.09
Seiya Sunada - 8:26.36

High Jump
Tomohiro Shinno - 2.31 m
Ryoichi Akamatsu - 2.29 m

Pole Vault
Seito Yamamoto - 5.77 m

Long Jump
Shotaro Shiroyama - 8.40 m
Natsuki Yamakawa - 8.17 m

Hammer Throw
Ryota Kashimura - 72.92 m
Shota Fukuda - 71.79 m

Javelin Throw 
Roderick Genki Dean - 84.28 m
Kenji Ogura - 81.63 m

20 kmRW 
Tomohiro Noda - 1:19:00
Yutaro Murayama - 1:19:25

35 kmRW
Hayato Katsuki - 2:28:53
Subaru Ishida - 2:30:37

Marathon
Yohei Ikeda - 2:06:53
Toshiki Sadakata - 2:07:05

Decathlon
Yuma Maruyama - 7816
Shun Taue - 7764

4x100 m Relay
Shoto Uno - 20.49 (200 m)
other entered sprinters

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