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Japan's Team for Lima U20 World Championships

The Lima World U20 Championships start tomorrow. Despite having its best-ever overall medal haul across all sports the Paris Olympics were almost a complete bust for Japan in athletics, with Haruka Kitaguchi's gold in the women's javelin throw its only gold medal. But there are a lot of medal prospects in Lima, and overall it's probably the best team Japan has ever sent to the U20 World Championships.

World Athletics U20 Championships Japanese Team

Lima, Peru, 27-31 Aug. 2024

Women (14)

800 m
Rin Kubo (Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S.) - 1:59.93

1500 m
Sherry Drury (Tsuyama H.S.) - 4:15.50

3000 m
Miyu Yamada (Meijo Univ.) - 9:14.09
Miu Suzuki (Tsukuba Univ.) - 9:18.64

5000 m
Kana Mizumoto (Edion) - 15:31.51
Yumi Yamamoto (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 15:37.38

100 m Hurdles
Ami Takahashi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 13.28
Miki Hayashi (Waseda Univ.) - 13.40

400 m Hurdles
Haru Hiraki (Osaka Seikei Univ.) - 58.02
Aki Yajima (Tokorozawa Nishi H.S.) - 58.58

10000 m Race Walk
Suzu Okuno (Naniwa H.S.) - 46:32 (road)
Suzuka Kuge (Shizuoka Futaba H.S.) - 46:41 (road)

Javelin Throw
Nozomi Sakurai (Chukyo Univ.) - 57.17 m


Men (26)

100 m
Naoki Nishioka (Osaka Gyosei H.S.) - 10.11
Fukuto Komuro (Tsukuba Shuei H.S.) - 10.31

200 m
Kei Wakana (Sano H.S.) - 20.61
Katsuki Sato (Tokyo Gakkan Niigata H.S.) - 20.76

400 m
Kentaro Shirahata (Toyo Univ.) - 46.55
Ryota Oishi (Hamamatsu Kaiseikan H.S.) - 46.57

800 m
Ko Ochiai (Shiga Gakuen H.S.) - 1:44.80
Togo Yoshizawa (Toho H.S.) - 1:47.80

1500 m
Koki Terada (Chuo Univ.) - 3:41.41

3000 m
Yamato Hamaguchi (Saku Chosei H.S.) - 8:01.92
Tetsu Sasaki (Saku Chosei H.S.). 8:02.56

5000 m
Yamato Hamaguchi (Saku Chosei H.S.) - 13:44.99
Kaito Matsui (Toyo Univ.) - 13:46.34

110 m Hurdles
Kyosuke Yamanaka (Hosei Univ.) - 13.43
Yu Hashimoto (Tokyo Nogyo Daini H.S.) - 13.53

400 m Hurdles
Kyo Kikuta (Hosei Daini H.S.) - 49.77
Kairi Gonda (Waseda Univ.) - 50.20

3000 m Steeplechase
Soma Nagahara (Juntendo Univ.) - 8:32.12
Tetsu Sasaki (Saku Chosei Univ.) - 8:37.23

10000 m Race Walk
Sotaro Osaka (Toyo Univ.) - 39:54.42
Taisei Yoshizako (Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) - 40:39.33

High Jump
Kaisei Nakatani (Fukuoka Daiichi H.S.) - 2.24 m

Pole Vault
Ryota Murakoso (Nihon Univ.) - 5.30 m
Rikuya Yoshida (Kansai Univ.) - 5.25 m

Long Jump
Takuto Tsuchiya (Seiwa Gakuen H.S.) - 7.73 m
Eito Omori (Fukuoka Daiichi H.S.) - 7.58 m

Triple Jump
Koki Kanai (Juntendo Univ.) - 15.85 m

Decathlon
Ryo Takahashi (Keio Univ.) - 7235

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