Japanese Team Roster of 46 for Tokyo Paralympics

Japan will field a team of 20 women and 26 men for track and field competition at the Tokyo Paralympics, spanning most of the Paralympics' duration with a daily schedule from Aug. 27 to Sept. 5. The complete schedule can be found here. Many of Japan's medal chances come in the marathon, including women's T12 world record holder Misato Michishita and veteran Wakako Tsuchiya in the T54 class, and Shinya Wada in the men's T11 class and Tsutomu Nagata in the men's T46 class. A breakdown of who's who on the Japanese team:

Women

100 m

Kaede Maegawa - T63

Momoka Muraoka - T54

Mana Sasaki - T13

Uran Sawada - T12

Chiaki Takada - T11

Saki Takakuwa - T64

Yuka Takamatsu - T38

200 m

Sae Tsuji - T47

400 m

Mana Sasaki - T13

Yuka Takamatsu - T38

Ayumi Takemura - T38

Aimi Toyama - T20

Sae Tsuji - T47

1500 m

Anju Furuya - T20

Sayaka Makita - T20

Moeko Yamamoto - T20

Marathon

Yumiko Fujii - T12

Tsubasa Kina - T54

Misato Michishita - T12

Mihoko Nishijima - T12

Wakako Tsuchida - T54

Long Jump

Kaede Maegawa - T63

Maya Nakanishi - T64

Uran Sawada - T12

Chiaki Takada - T11

Saki Takakuwa - T64

Tomomi Tozawa - T63

Men

100 m

Tomoki Ikoma - T54

Kakeru Ishida - T47

Tomoya Ito - T52

Junta Kosuda - T63

Takeru Matsumoto - T36

Kengo Oshima - T64

Yuki Oya - T52

Atsushi Yamamoto - T63

Yuhei Yasuno - T33

200 m

Kengo Oshima - T64

400 m

Kakeru Ishida - T47

Tomoya Ito - T52

Takeru Matsumoto - T36

Tomoki Sato - T52

Hirokazu Ueyonabaru - T52

800 m

Tomoki Suzuki - T54

1500 m

Daiki Akai - T20

Masayuki Higuchi - T54

Tomoya Ito - T52

Yuki Iwata - T20

Kenya Karasawa - T11

Tomoki Sato - T52

Tomoki Suzuki - T54

Yuji Togawa - T20

Hirokazu Ueyonabaru - T52

Shinya Wada - T11

5000 m

Masayuki Higuchi - T54

Kenya Karasawa - T11

Kozo Kubo - T54

Shinya Wada - T11

Marathon

Tadashi Horikoshi - T12

Yutaka Kumagai - T12

Tsutomu Nagata - T46

Tomoki Suzuki - T54

Shinya Wada - T11

Long Jump

Kanta Kokubo - T20

Junta Kosuda - T63

Atsushi Yamamoto - T63

High Jump

Toru Suzuki - T64

Javelin Throw

Takuya Shiramasa - F46

Akihiro Yamazaki - F46

Japan's First Goldless Day - Asian Athletics Championships Day Four Highlights

Day 4 of the Bangkok Asian Athletics Championships was the first without a single gold medal going to Japan, but there were still enough silvers and bronzes to go around. Robyn Lauren Brown of the Philippines outclassed the rest of the women's 400 mH final field, taking gold in 57.50. Eri Utsunomiya and Ami Yamamoto made it a Japanese 2-3, Utsunomiya running 57.73 for silver and Yamamoto 57.80 for bronze. Yusaku Kodama also scored silver in the men's 400 mH, running 48.96 behind Qatari winner Bassem Hemeida 's 48.64. Yuki Yamasaki won bronze in the heptathlon with 5696 points, Uzbekistan's Ekaterina Voronina taking gold in 6098 and Swapna Barman silver in 5840. Teammate Karin Odama was 4th in 5487. Another bronze came in the mixed 4x400 m relay, with Japan running 3:15.71 behind India's 3:14.70 and Sri Lanka's 3:15.41. Naoto Hasegawa and Ryoichi Akamatsu both cleared 2.23 m in the men's high jump, Hasegawa finishing 4th overall and Akamatsu 5th. ...

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