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9 Meet Records at National University Individual Championships


The National University Individual Track and Field Championships has always been the lesser cousin to September's National University Track and Field Championships, but in recent years it has started to see quality performances of its own, and with the reshuffling of the calendar this year to account for the Tokyo World Championships enough top-level collegiate talent came to Hiratsuka, Kanagawa to set 9 new meet records. A breakdown of top performances:
  • Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) kicked off his senior year with a solid 10.09 (+1.8) to lead the men's 100 m semifinals, but then sat out the final where his 3rd-year teammate Riku Oishi won in 10.19 (+0.8).
  • Genta Iki (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.) had a near-miss on the men's 200 m MR, winning easily in 20.65 (+1.2).
  • The top 3 in the men's 800 m all broke the meet record set last year, with NR holder Ko Ochiai (Komazawa Univ.) winning in 1:45.88, just 0.13 shy of the collegiate record at the very start of his collegiate career.
  • Toyo's Kaito Matsui and Waseda University 1st-year Rui Suzuki both broke the men's 5000 m MR, Matsui getting the win in 13:44.59 by 0.24 over Suzuki.
  • Tatsuki Abe (Juntendo Univ.) ran a 13.26 (+0.7) MR to lead the men's 110 mH semifinals, then won the final just off that mark in 13.30 (+1.3).
  • Ryosuke Takahashi (Hosei Univ.) had the near-miss of the weekend in the men's 400 mH final, just 0.01 off the MR with a 49.41 for the win.
  • Another double MR came in the men's 3000 mSC, 1st-year Tetsu Sasaki (Waseda Univ.) winning in 8:36.30 over Hinata Kuroki (Soka Univ.), 2nd in 8:38,19.
  • Four men broke the 10000 mRW MR, Sotaro Osaka continuing Toyo's domination of the event with a winning 38:44.88.
  • Sota Haraguchi (Juntendo Univ.) had a good one in the men's high jump, clearing 2.25m on his 2nd attempt and bettering his own MR by 2 cm to win by 9 cm.
  • Men's shot put MR holder Jason Atuobeng (Fukuoka Univ.) was just 3 cm off his own record, winning by over 50 cm with a final attempt of 18.39 m.
  • The top 3 women in the final broke the 1500 m MR, Fuka Otagaki (Sonoda Gakuen Joshi Univ.) getting the win in 4:19.26 by 0.68 over Runa Shoji (Kantaiheiyo Univ.).
  • Rei Honda (Juntendo Univ.) set a MR 13.08 (+0.4) in the women's 100 mH semifinals but couldn't carry that momentum to the final where she lost to Mao Shimano (Nihon Joshi Taiiku Univ.) 13.10 to 13.12 (+0.3).
  • Kaede Ito (Nittai Univ.) tied the women's high jump MR, clearing 1.81 m on her 3rd attempt.
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