National Track and Field Championships Preview - Throws

Continuing on from yesterday's National Track and Field Championships jumps preview, today we look at throws. It's Japan's relatively weakest area, with the only real contenders to make the Doha World Championships coming in the women's and men's javelin throw.

In the women's javelin, Haruka Kitaguchi (Nihon Univ.) is the only athlete in the throws, female or male, to have cleared the Doha standard, her 64.36 m in May ranking her #9 worldwide as of this writing. A win at Nationals will be good enough to guarantee her a spot on the national team. Two other women, last year's 3rd-placer Risa Miyashita (MPE) and Orie Ushiro (Niigata Albirex RC), are just outside the worldwide top 32 and could break through if they can deliver PB performances. Last year's top two Marina Saito (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) and Yuka Mori (Nikoniko Nori) are also in range, making the women's javelin one of the best events at this year's Nationals.

Defending men's champion Ryohei Arai (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) has been in good form this season, his 82.03 m short of the Doha standard but enough to put him solidly in the worldwide top 32 and a chance of picking up a spot come September's final team announcement. His closest competitor Takuto Kominami (Tsukuba Ginko) is also over 80 m within the Doha qualifying window but will have to get closer to at least 82 m to have a chance of snagging a spot.

It's unlikely anybody in the other throws will be able to do the same, but in all six events last year's champions are on the entry list and set to defend. 2018 women's shot put champion Nanaka Kori (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) is ranked number one in the shot put again and in the discus ahead of last year's winner Maki Saito (Tokyo Joshi Taiiku Univ.), setting up a possible rare double title. Defending women' hammer throw champ Hitomi Katsuyama (Orico) is also ranked #2, just behind Akane Watanabe (Maruwa).

Men's discus throw winner Masateru Yugami (Toyota) retains his top seed, but both shot put champ Satoshi Hatase (Nihon Sakuramon T&F Club) and hammer throw winner Kunihiro Sumi (Kobayashi Create) are in the number two spots behind last year's runners-up Daichi Nakamura (Mizuno) and Ryota Kashimura (Yamada Denki).

Look for JRN's middle and long distance preview tomorrow.

103rd National Track and Field Championships

Entry List Highlights - Throws
Fukuoka, June 27-30, 2019
marks listed are best in last two years except where noted
athletes in bold have cleared 2019 Doha World Championships standard
athletes in italics are currently ranked inside Doha field size without standard
complete entry lists

Men

Shot Put
Daichi Nakamura (Mizuno)  18.85 m
Satoshi Hatase (Nihon Sakuramon T&F Club) - 18.36 m
Daichi Morishita (Daiichi Gakuin H.S.) - 18.28 m
Masahira Sato (Niigata Albirex RC) - 18.13 m
Hayato Yamamoto (Roble) - 17.74 m
Reiji Takeda (Nichidai Sakuramon T&F Club) - 17.26 m
Ikuhiro Miyauchi (Nichidai Sakuramon T&F Club) - 17.23m
Hikaru Murakami (Nittai AC) - 17.12 m
Ryuji Iwana (Tokai Univ.) - 17.07 m
Takanao Suzuki (Okuwa) - 16.91 m

Discus Throw
Masateru Yugami (Toyota) - 62.16 m
Yuji Tsutsumi (Alsok) - 59.41 m
Shigeyuki Maisawa (Orico) - 56.93 m
Go Chinen (Zenrin) - 56.81 m
Kazumasa Yomogida (Gold's Gym) - 56.50 m
Yume Ando (Sawakami T&F Team) - 56.40 m
Kei Maeda (Ibaraki Yuyu Club) - 55.14 m
Kengo Anbo (Kazuno T&F Assoc.) - 54.79 m
Shinichi Yukinaga (Shikoku Univ.) - 54.02 m
Toshiki Matsui (Torafugutei) - 53.82 m

Hammer Throw
Ryota Kashimura (Yamada Denki) - 70.79 m
Kunihiro Sumi (Kobayashi Create) - 70.63 m
Yudai Kimura (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 69.58 m
Naoki Uematsu (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 69.45 m
Hiroki Ako (Manabiyaen) - 69.10 m
Yushiro Hosaka (Saitama Ika Univ. Group) - 68.82 m
Masayoshi Okumura (Okumura Zoen) - 67.84 m
Takahiro Kobata (Chukyo Univ.) - 67.12 m
Kentaro Yoshino (Osaka Taiiku Univ.) - 66.44 m
Taiki Nemoto (Ryutsu Keizai Univ. AC) - 66.25 m

Javelin Throw
Ryohei Arai (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 82.03 m
Takuto Kominami (Tsukuba Ginko) - 80.18 m
Ayumu Ishiyama (Tiradoriku) - 79.44 m
Gen Naganuma (Kokushikan Univ.) - 79.42 m
Yuta Sakiyama (Ehime T&F Assoc.) - 79.13 m
Takuma Nakanishi (Nikonikonori) - 78.77 m
Kenji Ogura (Nittai AC) - 78.66 m
Genki Dean (Mizuno) - 78.00 m
Masashi Toyoda (Tokai Gakuen Univ.) - 77.52 m
Tatsuya Sakamoto (Osaka Taiiku Univ.) - 77.33 m

Women

Shot Put
Nanaka Kori (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 16.23 m
Aya Ota (Fukuoka Univ. Club) - 16.00 m
Honoka Oyama (Fukuoka Univ.) - 15.78 m
Chiaki Yoshino (Saitama T&F Assoc.) - 15.55 m
Fumika Ono (Saitama Univ.) - 15.27 m
Yuri Saito (Tsukuba Univ.) - 15.18 m
Hitomi Naganuma (Ibaraki T&F Assoc.) - 15.15 m
Yuka Takahashi (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 15.09 m
Yuka Mori (Nikonikonori) - 14.90 m
Chihiro Shigeyama (Kokushikan AC) - 14.79 m

Discus Throw
Nanaka Kori (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 59.03 m
Minori Tsujikawa (Tsukuba Univ.) - 54.46 m
Maki Saito (Tokyo Joshi Taiiku Univ.) - 54.00 m
Mizuki Handa (Tsukuba Univ.) - 51.30 m
Natsumi Fujimori (Fukui Sports Assoc.) - 50.77 m
Eriko Nakata (Shikoku Univ. AC) - 50.44 m
Ai Shikimoto (Niigata Albirex RC) - 49.17 m
Akane Kawaguchi (Nittai Univ.) - 49.16 m
Ririka Sakai (Tokyo Joshi Taiiku Univ.) - 48.93 m
Chiho Kanda (Niigata Iryo Fukushi Univ.) - 48.76 m

Hammer Throw
Akane Watanabe (Maruwa) - 65.49 m
Hitomi Katsuyama (Orico) - 65.32 m
Tamami Saeki (Champion) - 62.45 m
Miharu Kodate (Ryutsu Keizai Univ.) - 61.77 m
Kiyono Sekiguchi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 60.59 m
Suzuki Asada (Osaka T&F Assoc.) - 59.85 m
Wakana Sato (Mie Sports Assoc.) - 59.00 m
Momoko Watanabe (Tsukuba Univ.) - 58.77 m
Erina Hamada (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 58.59 m
Sakura Mein (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 58.40 m

Javelin Throw
Haruka Kitaguchi (Nihon Univ.) - 64.36 m
Marina Saito (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 60.79 m
Risa Miyashita (MPE) - 60.71 m
Yuka Mori (Nikoniko Nori) - 59.18 m
Mikako Yamashita (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 59.17 m
Orie Ushiro (Niigata Albirex RC) - 59.16 m
Kiho Kuze (Kondo Tech) - 58.29 m
Hitomi Sukenaga (Okuwa) - 57.28 m
Momone Ueda (Fukuoka Univ.) - 57.02 m
Tomoka Kuwazoe (Tsukuba Univ.) - 56.86 m

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