by Brett Larner
videos by aoshin0507
Two-time Olympic medalist, three-time World Championships medalist and national record holder Koji Murofushi (Mizuno), 39, added an historic twentieth-straight men's hammer throw national title to his list of accomplishments, easily winning the 2014 Japanese National Track and Field Championships in Fukushima with a throw of 73.93 m. Murofushi could have stopped after his opening throw and still won, runner-up Hiroki Ako (Tottori T&F Assoc.) throwing 67.60 m, but with the Federation's A- and B-standards for this fall's Asian Games beckoning he continued on, building slightly on his distance over his next few throws before peaking at 73.93. Twenty-straight national titles, taking Murofushi all the way back to 1995, a time when this was the biggest hit in the land. A true one-of-a-kind.
Murofushi wasn't the only national record holder to come out on top on the second day of the National Championships. Battling on-and-off heavy …
videos by aoshin0507
Two-time Olympic medalist, three-time World Championships medalist and national record holder Koji Murofushi (Mizuno), 39, added an historic twentieth-straight men's hammer throw national title to his list of accomplishments, easily winning the 2014 Japanese National Track and Field Championships in Fukushima with a throw of 73.93 m. Murofushi could have stopped after his opening throw and still won, runner-up Hiroki Ako (Tottori T&F Assoc.) throwing 67.60 m, but with the Federation's A- and B-standards for this fall's Asian Games beckoning he continued on, building slightly on his distance over his next few throws before peaking at 73.93. Twenty-straight national titles, taking Murofushi all the way back to 1995, a time when this was the biggest hit in the land. A true one-of-a-kind.
Murofushi wasn't the only national record holder to come out on top on the second day of the National Championships. Battling on-and-off heavy …