No new additions to Japan's potential team for the Tokyo World Championships as things head into the last couple of weeks before the Aug. 24 qualifying deadline. The biggest mover this week was Naoto Hasegawa, 3rd in the men's high jump at July's National Championships, who scored back-to-back wins at the silver label Tirop P-T-S Meeting in Slovakia and gold label Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Hungary to move up from 23rd to 18th in the quota of 36. Ken Toyoda also picked up a couple of places in the men's 400 mH off a 49.37 for 6th at the IFAM Oordegem meet in Belgium.
Rin Suzuki's chances of making the Tokyo team in the men’s javelin throw got a boost too despite a weak performance at the P-T-S Meeting. The 4th-placer there, Belgium's Timothy Herman, scored just enough points to come in between Suzuki and Nationals 3rd-placer Gen Naganuma, who had been separated by only 1 point in the Road to Tokyo rankings. That bumped Naganuma out of the top 36 while leaving Suzuki at 35th, meaning the JAAF will pick Suzuki if he hangs on.
Oordegem had a big impact on men's distance, the results there pretty much putting National Championships 5000 m runner-up Nagiya Mori out of range of the 42-deep quota. 5000 m national champ Ryuto Igawa and 10000 m national champ Mebuki Suzuki both ran well there, Igawa with a 13:14.58 and Suzuki showing he's back from his fall at Nationals with a 13:16.43, but neither is anywhere close to overtaking Mori in the rankings let alone the top 42. But Suzuki still has a good chance of making the 10000 m, where he’s 2nd in line for a roll down spot.
National Championships men's 3000 mSC top 2 Ryoma Aoki and Yutaro Niinae were both knocked out of the quota by the super deep results in the Oordegem steeple, in Niinae's case even though he broke 8:20 for the first time. Niinae currently sits at 1st in line for any roll downs after the Aug. 24 deadline, meaning he has a realistic chance of still being on the Tokyo team, but with national champ Aoki currently the 4th-best outside the quota it doesn't look likely he'll pick up a spot. Fuga Sato also got bumped out of the men's 400 m quota, falling from 48th of 48 to 1st in line for a roll down.
Women
400 m (48 / 50.75 / 1209)
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Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) - 1200 - 4th, Nationals
800 m (56 / 1:59.00 / 1191)
43. Rin Kubo (Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S.) - 1236 - 1st, Nationals
1500 m (56 / 4:01.50 / 1165)
*27. Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 3:59.69 - 1st, Nationals
49. Tomoka Kimura (Sekisui Kagaku) - 1180 - 2nd, Nationals
5000 m (42 / 14:50.00 / 1181)
*12. Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 14:31.88 - 1st, Nationals
36. Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 1202 - 7th, Nationals
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Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 1172 - 2nd, Nationals
Kana Mizumoto (Edion) - 1171 - 3rd, Nationals
10000 m (27 / 30:20.00 / 1218)
12. Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 1263 - 1st, Nationals
19. Mikuni Yada (Edion) - 1241 - 2nd, Nationals
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Rino Goshima (Shiseido) - 1212 - DNS, Nationals
100 mH (40 / 12.73 / 1234)
29. Hitomi Nakajima (Hasegawa) - 12.71 (+0.7) - 2nd, Nationals
31. Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu) - 1281 - 1st, Nationals
3000 mSC (36 / 9:18.00 / 1215)
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Miu Saito (Panasonic) - 1207 - 2nd, Nationals
High Jump (36 / 1.97 m / 1165)
25. Nagisa Takahashi (Senko) - 1193 - 2nd, Nationals
Long Jump (36 / 6.86 m / 1172)
35. Sumire Hata (Sumitomo Denko) - 1173 - 3rd, Nationals
Triple Jump (36 / 14.55 m / 1159)
26. Maoko Takashima (Kyudenko) - 1193 - 1st, Nationals
35. Mariko Morimoto (Orico) - 1160 - 3rd, Nationals
Discus Throw (36 / 64.50 / 1105)
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Nanaka Kori (Niigata Albirex) - 1097 - 1st, Nationals
Javelin Throw (36 / 64.00 / 1094)
*1. Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) - wild card - DNS, Nationals
15. Momone Ueda (Zenrin) - 1204 - 1st, Nationals
23. Sae Takemoto (Orico) - 1148 - 3rd, Nationals
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Marina Saito (Suzuki) - 1091 - 2nd, Nationals
Marathon (100 / 2:23:30 / 1035)
*13. Sayaka Sato (Sekisui Kagaku) - 2:20:59 - 2nd, Nagoya 2025
*14. Yuka Ando (Shimamura) - 2:21:18 - 1st, Nagoya 2024
*15. Kana Kobayashi (Otsuka Seiyaku) - 2:21:19 - 2nd, Osaka Women's 2025
20 km Race Walk (50 / 1:29:00 / 1125)
*5. Nanako Fujii (Edion) - 1:26:33 - 1st, Nationals
*19. Kumiko Okada (Fujitsu) - 1:28:17 - 2nd, Nationals
35. Ayane Yanai (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 1166 - 4th, Nationals
Yukiko Umeno (Juntendo Univ.) - 1131 - 3rd, Nationals
35 km Race Walk (50 / 2:48.00 / 929)
*20. Yukiko Umeno (Juntendo Univ.) - 2:46:53 - 1st, Nationals
29. Masumi Fuchise (Kenso) - 1146 - 3rd, Nationals
32. Maika Yagi (Chiba Kogyo Ginko) - 1094 - 4th, Nationals
Yuki Yoshizumi (Funabashi Seikeigeka) - 1090 - 5th, Nationals
Mao Tatsumi (Takoshige) - 1045 - 6th, Nationals
Sayori Matsumoto (Chiba Kogyo Ginko) - 1007 - 7th, Nationals
Men
100 m (48 / 10.00 / 1219)
19. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Toray) - 9.96 (+0.5) - 4th, Heat 7, Nationals
29. Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) - 9.99 (+1.5) - 1st, Nationals
32. Sorato Shimizu (Seiryo H.S.) - 10.00 (+1.7) - 4th, SF3, Nationals
Yuhi Mori (Daito Bunka Univ.) - 10.00 (+1.3) - 7th, Nationals
Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) - 1250 - DQ, Heat 6, Nationals
200 m (48 / 20.16 / 1196)
*24. Towa Uzawa (JAL) - 20.12 (+0.8) - 1st, Nationals
28. Soshi Mizukubo (Miyazaki T&F Assoc.) - 20.14 (+0.1) - 7th, SF2, Nationals
43. Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) - 1208 - 3rd, Nationals
400 m (48 / 44.85 / 1229)
37. Yuki Joseph Nakajima (Fujitsu) - 44.84 - 4th, Nationals
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Fuga Sato (Mizuno) - 1226 - DQ, Nationals
800 m (56 / 1:44.50 / 1213)
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Ko Ochiai (Komazawa Univ.) - 1210 - 1st, Nationals
1500 m (56 / 3:33.00 / 1217)
55. Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) - Asian Champion - 1st, Nationals
5000 m (42 / 13:01.00 / 1221)
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Nagiya Mori (Honda) - 1214 - 2nd, Nationals
10000 m (27 / 27:00.00 / 1240)
25. Jun Kasai (Asahi Kasei) - 1240 - 2nd, Nationals
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Mebuki Suzuki (Toyota) - 1232 - 1st, Nationals
110 mH (40 / 13.27 / 1222)
*9. Rachid Muratake (JAL) - 13.08 (+1.4) - DNS, Nationals
*17. Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.19 (+0.3) - 1st, Nationals
*19. Shusei Nomoto (Ehime T&F Assoc.) - 13.21 (+0.6) - 2nd, Nationals
400 mH (40 / 48.50 / 1238)
*31. Shunta Inoue (Fujitsu) - 48.46 - 3rd, Nationals
35. Ken Toyoda (Toyota) - 1263 - 7th, Heat 1, Nationals
37. Daiki Ogawa (Toyo Univ.) - 1255 - 1st, Nationals
3000 mSC (36 / 8:15.00 / 1265)
*3. Ryuji Miura (Subaru) - 8:03.43 - DNS, Nationals
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Yutaro Niinae (Aisan Kogyo) - 1229 - 2nd, Nationals
Ryoma Aoki (Honda) - 1220 - 1st, Nationals
High Jump (36 / 2.33 m / 1156)
10. Ryoichi Akamatsu (Seibu Prince) - 1287 - 2nd, Nationals
11. Tomohiro Shinno (Kyudenko) - 1258 - 1st, Nationals
18. Naoto Hasegawa (Niigata Albirex) - 1224 - 3rd, Nationals
Yuto Seko (FAAS) - 1175 - 5th, Nationals
Sota Haraguchi (Juntendo Univ.) - 1169 - 8th, Nationals
Takashi Eto (KDL) - 1163 - 5th, Nationals
Long Jump (36 / 8.27 m / 1194)
24. Keito Yamaura (Katsuura Golf Club) - 1219 - 1st, Nationals
25. Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu) - 1218 - 4th, Nationals
34. Hibiki Tsuha (Otsuka Seiyaku) - 1206 - 5th, Nationals
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Riku Ito (Suzuki) - 1191 - 2nd, Nationals
Hammer Throw (36 / 78.20 m / 1162)
28. Shota Fukuda (Sumitomo Denko) - 1187 - 1st, Nationals
Javelin Throw (36 / 85.50 / 1137)
*9. Yuta Sakiyama (Ehime T&F Assoc.) - 87.16 m - 1st, Nationals
15. Roderick Genki Dean (Mizuno) - 1248 - 2nd, Nationals
35. Rin Suzuki (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 1137 - 11th, Nationals
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Gen Naganuma (Suzuki) - 1136 - 3rd, Nationals
Marathon (100 / 2:06:30 / 1071)
*14. Yuya Yoshida (GMO) - 2:05:16 - 1st, Fukuoka Int'l 2024
*18. Ryota Kondo (Mitsubishi Juko) - 2:05:39 - 2nd, Osaka 2025
* 44. Naoki Koyama (Honda) - 1184 - 3rd, Osaka 2024
20 km Race Walk (50 / 1:19:20 / 1171)
*1. Toshikazu Yamanishi (Aichi Seiko) - 1:16:10 - 1st, Nationals
*2. Satoshi Maruo (Aichi Seiko) - 1:17:24 - 2nd, Nationals
*8. Kento Yoshikawa (Sunbelx) - 1:17:38 - 3rd, Nationals
35 km Race Walk (50 / 2:28:00 / 1119)
*3. Masatora Kawano (Asahi Kasei) - 2:21:47 - 1st, Nationals 2024
*6. Satoshi Maruo (Aichi Seiko) - 2:24:24 - 2nd, Nationals 2025
*7. Hayato Katsuki (SDF Academy) - 2:24:38 - 1st, Nationals 2025
4x100 m Relay (16)
*2. Japan
4x400 m Relay (16)
15. Japan - 2:58.33
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