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Yamagata and Seko Win National Sports Festival 100 m Titles - Day Two Highlights



Battered by the winds of the passing Typhoon #25, Jakarta Asian Games 100 m bronze medalist Ryota Yamagata (Seiko) ended a long season with a national title in the senior men's 100 m on the second day of the Fukui National Sports Festival. A 5.2 m/s headwind meant there was no chance of Yamagata achieving his goal of finally breaking 10 seconds on the same track where Yoshihide Kiryu did it last year, but Yamagata duly dispatched rivals Yuki Koike (ANA) and Takumi Kuki (NTN) to take the win in 10.58.

The wind was almost as much of an issue in the senior women's 100 m, where Nodoka Seko (Crane) won in 12.21 (-2.8 m/s), and the junior races. Senior women's discus throw winner Nanaka Kori (Kyushu Kyoritsu  Univ.) doubled back with a win in the shot put, throwing 15.84 m. Junior high schooler Asuka Ishimatsu (Hamanomiya J.H.S.) beat older competition to win the junior women's 1500 m in 4:26.07, while Aaron Clay (Soyo H.S.) took the longest men's event of the day, the junior men's 800 m, in 1:52.74.

National Sports Festival Athletics Day Two Highlights

9.98 Stadium, Fukui, 10/6/18
complete results

Women
Senior Women's 100 m Final -2.8 m/s
1. Nodoka Seko (Crane) - 12.21
2. Hana Kuboyama (Fukuoka Univ.) - 12.24
3. Manami Hirosawa (Nittai Univ.) - 12.28

Senior Women's 400 m Hurdles Final
1. Eri Utsunomiya (Hasegawa Taiiku Shisetsu) - 57.54

Senior Women's High Jump Final
1. Julia Tsuda (Higashi Osaka Univ.) - 1.83 m

Senior Women's Pole Vault Final
1. Rina Mamiya (Axtos) - 4.00 m

Senior Women's Shot Put Final
1. Nanaka Kori (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 15.84 m

Junior Women's 100 m Final
1. Hanae Aoyama (Osaka H.S.) - 12.39 -4.4 m/s

Junior Women's 800 m Final
1. Mami Yamaguchi (Kitakyushu Municipal H.S.) - 2:10.71

Junior Women's 1500 m Final
1. Asuka Ishimatsu (Hamanomiya J.H.S.) - 4:26.07
2. Seira Fuwa (Takasaki H.S.) - 4:26.35
3. Nanaka Komezawa (Kitahama J.H.S.) - 4:26.70

Junior Women's 400 m Hurdles Final
1. Mai Saihara (Saikyo H.S.) - 58.77

Junior Women's Discus Throw Final
1. Maki Saito (Tsuruoka H.S.) - 46.87 m

Men
Senior Men's 100 m Final -5.2 m/s
1. Ryota Yamagata (Seiko) - 10.58
2. Yuki Koike (ANA) - 10.71
3. Takumi Kuki (NTN) - 10.80

Junior Men's 100 m Final
1. Mizuki Inoue (Tottori Chuo Ikuei H.S.) - 11.10 -3.8 m/s

Junior Men's 800 m Final
1. Aaron Clay (Soyo H.S.) - 1:52.74

Junior Men's 400 m Hurdles Final
1. Soya Iwabuchi (Sendai Ikuei H.S.) - 52.06

 Junior Men's Long Jump Final
1. Ryutaro Tanaka (Settsu H.S.) - 7.59 m +4.7 m/s

Junior Men's Discus Throw
1. Kosei Yamashita (Gifu Shogyo H.S.) - 52.59 m

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