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Atuobeng Sets Shot Put Meet Record - National University Individual Track and Field Championships Day Two



Following a record-breaking Day 1, the National University Individual Track and Field Championships continued Saturday at Kanagawa's Lemon Gas Stadium. 2nd-year Jason Atuobeng (Fukuoka Univ.) turned in the performance of the day, throwing a 20 cm PB on his final attempt to break the men's shot put meet record with a winning throw of 18.42 m. The 20-year-old Atuobeng, who broke 18 m for the first time last month, came in at all-time Japanese #7, and with just 24 cm to go to the collegiate record and 41 cm to the national record he's due to be one of the highest-potential Japanese men on the field over the next few years.

2nd-year Hanae Aoyama (Konan Univ.), 19, had the women's performance of the day, missing the women's 100 m meet record by just 0.02 as she won the final in a PB 11.50 (+1.0). That was enough to move her up to #6 on the Japanese all-time collegiate list. Nagisa Takahashi, one of the just-graduated athletes still allowed to compete in the meet, won the women's high jump at 1.80 m, missing the meet record by just 1 cm.

Other Day 2 action:
  • 1st-year Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) won the men's 100 m final in 10.30 (+1.6), following in the footsteps of Toyo alum and meet record holder Yoshihide Kiryu.
  • 3rd-year Shizuho Moriyama (Fukuoka Univ.) won the women's 400 m final in 55.77.
  • 4th-year Ryuki Iwasaki (Osaka Taiiku) scored one for the Kansai region with a 46.47 win in the men's 400 m final.
  • Sho Watanabe, another recent grad, won the men's high jump, clearing 2.16 m.
  • 2nd-year Ikkei Yoshino added another win to Kyushu Kyoritsu University's haul, taking the men's javelin throw with a 74.09 m throw on his 2nd attempt.
  • 2nd-year Kana Koide (Juntendo Univ.) won the women's 10000 m RW in 47:31.05 by 9 seconds over Hitomi Shimooka (Doshisha Univ.).
  • Recent grad Maoko Takashima jumped a wind-aided 13.52 m (+4.1) on her final attempt to take the women's triple jump.
  • 4th-year Fumika Ono (Saitama Univ.) won the women's shot put with an opening throw of 15.02 m.
  • Jun Taue, another unattached athlete, won the decathlon with a score of 7371.
  • Nittai University grad Karin Odama won the heptathlon in 5547.
The National University Individual Track and Field Championships wrap up Sunday.

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