Japan Announces Teams for Budapest World Championships and Riga World Road Running Championships (updated)
Two big announcements in the last week from the JAAF of its rosters for this month's Budapest World Championships and next month's Riga World Road Running Championships. 28 women, 48 men and 35 officials make up the Budapest team, with multiple winners from last month's Asian Championships, national record holders, and at least two real medal prospects in women's javelin throw world leader Haruka Kitaguchi and men's 20 km race walk defending champion Toshikazu Yamanishi. Especially on the women's side, a lot of athletes on the cusp of making the quotas for their event didn't get there, but a few did, like Asian 10000 m champ Ren Tazawa, pictured above with coach Hiroaki Oyagi and 1:00:08 half marathoner Tomoki Ota in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Ota is one of the two Japanese men bound for Riga in the half marathon, the other being 1:00:32 runner Ryota Kondo. The World Road Running Championships add a road mile and road 5 km to what was the World Half Marathon Championships, but not a single Japanese woman is entered in the half marathon, and only two are entered in the other two distances versus a total of six men across the three distances. To be fair, Riga conflicts with the Asian Games, October's MGC Olympic marathon trials, and ekiden season, but still. Depth in the women's half marathon in Japan is nowhere near what it is for men given their focus on that distance in college in prep for the Hakone Ekiden, but you'd think they'd still be able to come up with someone, or something a little closer to parity.
Entry rosters for both teams are below.
Japanese National Team, Budapest World Championships
times listed are best within qualifying window
Women
100 m
Arisu Kimishima (DKS) - 11.37
200 m
Remi Tsuruta (Minami Kyushu Family Mart) - 23.27
1500 m
Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 4:06.75
Yume Goto (Uniqlo) - 4:10.79
5000 m
Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 14:53.60
Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:16.71
Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 15:17.30
10000
Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 30:39.71
Rino Goshima (Shiseido) - 31:22.38
100 mH
Asuka Terada (Japan Create) - 12.86
Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu) - 12.89
Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko) - 12.90
400 mH
Ami Yamamoto (Kyudenko) - 56.06
Eri Utsunomiya (Hasegawa TK) - 56.65
Long Jump
Sumire Hata (Shibata Kogyo) - 6.97 m
Triple Jump
Mariko Morimoto (Uchida Kensetsu AC) - 14.16 m
Naoko Takashima (Kyudenko) - 13.82 m
Discus Throw
Maki Saito (Tokai Univ. Grad School) - 56.63 m
Javelin Throw
Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) - 67.04 m
Marina Saito (Suzuki) - 62.07 m
Momone Ueda (Zenrin) - 60.54 m
Marathon
Mizuki Matsuda (Daihatsu) - 2:20:52
Rika Kaseda (Daihatsu) - 2:21:55
Sayaka Sato (Sekisui Kagaku) - 2:22:13
20 kmRW
Nanako Fujii (Edion) - 1:29:01
Ayane Yanai (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 1:30:58
Yukiko Umeno (Juntendo Univ.) - 1:33:38
35 kmRW
Kumiko Okada (Fujitsu) - 2:44:11
Serena Sonoda (NTN) - 2:44:25
Masumi Fuchise (Kenso Kogyo) - 2:54:29
Men
100 m
Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) - 10.02
Ryuichiro Sakai (Osaka Gas) - 10.08
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Toray) - 10.09
200 m
Towa Uzawa (Tsukuba Univ.) - 20.23
Koki Ueyama (Sumitomo Denko) - 20.32
Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) - 20.43
400 m
Kentaro Sato (Fujitsu) - 45.00
Yuki Joseph Nakajima (Toyo Univ.) - 45.12
Fuga Sato (Mizuno) - 45.13
5000 m
Kazuya Shiojiri (Fujitsu) - 13:19.85
Hyuga Endo (Sumitomo Denko) - 13:20.84
10000 m
Ren Tazawa (Toyota) - 27:28.04
110 mH
Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.04
Shunya Takayama (Zenrin) - 13.10
Taiga Yokochi (Team SSP) - 13.33
400 mH
Yusaku Kodama (Nojima T&FC) - 48.77
Kazuki Kurokawa (Hosei Univ.) - 49.03
Takayuki Kishimoto (Fujitsu) - 49.28
3000 mSC
Ryuji Miura (Juntendo Univ.) - 8:09.91
Ryoma Aoki (Honda) - 8:21.96
Seiya Sunada (Press Kogyo) - 8:26.36
High Jump
Ryoichi Akamatsu (AWS) - 2.30 m
Tomohiro Shinno (Kyudenko) - 2.27 m
Naoto Hasegawa (Niigata Albirex RC) - 2.25 m
Pole Vault
Tomoya Karasawa (Nittai Univ.) - 5.56 m
Long Jump
Hiromichi Yoshida (Kanazaki T&F Assoc.) - 8.26 m
Shotaro Shiroyama (Zenrin) - 8.11 m
Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu) - 8.06 m
Triple Jump
Hikaru Ikehata (Surugadai Univ. AC) - 16.73 m
Javelin Throw
Yuta Sakiyama (Ehime T&F Assoc.) - 83.54 m
Roderick Genki Dean (Mizuno) - 83.15 m
Kenji Ogura (Aijec) - 80.13 m
Decathlon
Yuma Maruyama (Sumitomo Denko) - 7816
Marathon
Ichitaka Yamashita (Mitsubishi Juko) - 2:05:51
Kenya Sonota (JR Higashi Nihon) - 2:05:59
Kazuya Nishiyama (Toyota) - 2:06:45
20 kmRW
Koki Ikeda (Asahi Kasei) - 1:18:36
Eiki Takahashi (Fujitsu) - 1:19:04
Toshikazu Yamanishi (Aichi Seiko) - 1:19:07
Yuta Koga (Otsuka Seiyaku) - 1:19:19
35 kmRW
Tomohiro Noda (SDF Academy) - 2:23:13
Masatora Kawano (Asahi Kasei) - 2:23:15
Satoshi Maruo (Aichi Seiko) - 2:25:49
4x100 m Relay
Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) - 10.02
Ryuichiro Sakai (Osaka Gas) - 10.08
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Toray) - 10.09
Yuki Koike (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.11
Soshi Mizukubo (Daiichi Sakekaika) - 10.20
4x400 m Relay
Kentaro Sato (Fujitsu) - 45.00
Yuki Joseph Nakajima (Toyo Univ.) - 45.12
Fuga Sato (Mizuno) - 45.13
Ryuki Iwasaki (Mie Sports Assoc.) - 45.19
Kenki Imaizumi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 45.54
Naohiro Jinushi (Hosei Univ.) - 45.58
Japanese National Team, Riga World Road Running Championships
times listed are PBs
Women
1 Mile
Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 4:19.3
5 km
Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 15:34
Nanami Watanabe (Panasonic) - 16:49
Men
1 Mile
Yusuke Takahashi (Hokkaido Univ. Grad School) - 3:38.69 (track 1500 m)
Ryoji Tatezawa (DeNA) - 3:57.43 (indoor track mile)
5 km
Kanta Shimizu (Subaru) - 13:21.18 (track 5000 m)
Yamato Yoshii (Chuo Univ.) - 13:25.87 (track 5000 m)
Half Marathon
Tomoki Ota (Toyota) - 1:00:08
Ryota Kondo (Mitsubishi Juko) - 1:00:32
text and photo © 2023 Brett Larner, all rights reserved
Comments
Interesting to see Nozomi Tanaka in the Road Running Championships. This will be a good challenge for her as she usually performs her best on the track.