Nakajima Breaks 100 mH NR Twice, Kitaguchi Returns

Nakajima Breaks 100 mH NR Twice, Kitaguchi Returns - August Track Roundup

Catching up on what's been happening in track and field this month during our summer break:

Men's 3000 m NR holder Nagiya Mori was just off his 5000 m PB at the IFAM Oordegem meet in Belgium on Aug. 1, taking 16th in 13:15.01. Shota Nakano was 26th of 28 in 13:35.02. This year's national champion Ryoma Aoki ran the 3000 mSC but didn't finish.
Naoto Hasegawa was the only Japanese athlete at Mutaz Essa Barshim's What Gravity Tour stop at the Monaco Athletics Festival meet on Aug. 5. Having cleared 2.30 m for the first time earlier this year Hasegawa only managed 2.18 m in Monaco, taking 7th of 10.
There were a lot of good performances at the Fuji Hokuriku World Trial meet in Fujiyoshida on Aug. 9, but the one that got the headlines was a 12.62 (-0.2) NR in the women's 100 mH by Hitomi Nakajima. Nakajima actually did it twice, running 12.62 (+2.0) in the heats before repeating in the final. Masumi Aoki also ran big in the heats, with a 12.68 (+2.0) for all-time Japanese #2. In other results, veteran Yoshihide Kiryu turned in a 10.03 (+1.5) SB to win his heat in the men's 100 m, but skipped out on the final. Close behind him in the same heat, Shoma Yamamoto ran a 10.04 PB, then went on to take the final in 10.10 (+0.3). Kentaro Shirahata of Toyo University won the 400 m in 45.27, the 6th-best time ever by a Japanese collegiate athlete. Abigail Fuuka Ido just missed her own 200 m NR, winning in 22.81 (+0.5) just 0.02 off the record she set at the same meet last year.
Not content with her Fuji Hokuriku performance, Nakajima went 0.02 better with another new 100 mH NR of 12.60 (+0.7) to win the Athlete Night Games in Fukui meet on Aug. 15. Yamamoto scored another win too, taking the men's 100 m in 10.05 (+0.9). 400 m specialist Fuga Sato took the men's 200 m with a 20.54 (+1.6) PB. Known more as a discus throw athlete, Shinichi Yukinaga went over 18 m for the first time in the shot put, winning with a 18.15 m PB.
Men's 1500 m U20 NR holder Keita Satoh came up short of his goal of a new senior NR at the Stumptown Twilight meet in Oregon on Aug. 15, but delivered his third sub-3:40 of the season with a 3:38.59 for 4th. Only national champ Kazuto Iizawa has also gone sub-3:40 three times this season, no small achievement for Satoh only 4 months into his shift back to shorter distances after 4 years of Hakone Ekiden focus in college.
Masaki Ejima had an off day at the Golden Sand meet in Poland on Aug. 17, placing 9th of 11 with his lowest clearance of the season, 5.15 m.
Olympic champ Haruka Kitaguchi had the performance of what has been a tough season for her so far, winning the Lausanne Diamond League meet on Aug. 21 with a 64.90 m SB, her best throw since winning the 2024 Diamond League final almost 2 years ago. The only other Japanese athletes in the meet, Tatsuki Abe and Shunsuke Izumiya were 5th and 7th in the men's 110 mH, Abe running 13.39 (-0.5) and Izumiya 13.55 behind American winner Jamal Britt's 13.13.

Federation Tells World Championships Marathoner Horibata To Go On Diet

http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/etc/news/20110307-OHT1T00258.htm translated by Brett Larner Having made the 2011 World Championships marathon team by running a PB of 2:09:25 to come in 3rd overall and as the top Japanese finisher at the Mar. 6 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, Hiroyuki Horibata (24, Team Asahi Kasei), talked to the media at Osaka Airport on Mar. 7. Following Sunday's race Rikuren director Keisuke Sawaki , 67, told Horibata, "Let's cut things down a bit until the World Championships," directing him to go on a diet. The 189 cm Horibata weighs 72 kg [~6'3", 160 lbs]. When he joined Team Asahi Kasei in 2005 at age 18 he weighed 65 kg, and this weight is still generally listed on his profile at races and in the media. "For some reason it never changes," he said with a grin. His coach Takeshi Soh , 58, commented, "If he was hungrier for glory his world would change completely," slapping the 'heavyweight division runner...

World Marathon Majors Japanese Entries

We're back from a short summer break. A week and a half out from the first race of the season's four World Marathon Majors races, here's a look at Japanese athletes scheduled to run. Everything right now is about qualifying for the MGC Race, the official trials race for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics to be held in the fall of 2027 in Nagoya. The JAAF makes no mistake about wanting to keep its top people racing domestically where it can get a share of revenue from the TV broadcast and race operations, so anyone who decides to race overseas has to do it in a WA platinum label race and hit either 2:06:30 or 2:23:30, regardless of place, course or weather if they want to make the trials. At the same time concessions are make for domestic races, like for example the late-August Hokkaido Marathon where up to 3 men and 3 women can qualify if they go 2:12:00 or 2:32:00. As a result, you get things like last year where amateur runner Yudai Fukuda made the trials by finishing 3rd Jap...

Nat'l University Ekiden Updates Here

Looks like I just went over my update limit on Twitter - sorry, it's the first time I've tried to use it for this. I'll look for another option next time. In the meantime I'll add updates to the comments below. Not sure if that has a max too but I guess we'll find out. Update: Part one of the Nationals commentary can be found here .

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