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A Quick Guide to the Potential Japanese Team for the Budapest World Championships

There's still over a month to go until the qualifying deadline for August's Budapest World Championships. As it stands right now eight women and seventeen men have been named to the team based on the primary criteria of having the qualifying standard and having placed top three at this year's National Championships or the special criteria in events like relays and the marathon. But with a lot of Japanese athletes comfortably inside their event's quota for qualification based on world rankings those numbers will at least double by the July 30 deadline. 

A quick guide to the most likely candidates for making the final team and those realistically in range of getting into the quota is below. Numbers after event headers are the current quota cutoff score for that event. Numbers after athletes' names are the current world ranking score for anyone who doesn't have the standard in their event. For athletes who do have the standard, their current rank out of the number of places in their event is given. Athletes in bold have already been named to the Budapest team based on the criteria above.

Women

800 m (1149)
Ayano Shiomi (1149) - 3rd, Nationals

1500 m (1115)
Nozomi Tanaka (1207) - 1st, Nationals
Yume Goto (1164) - 2nd, Nationals

5000 m (1129)
Nozomi Tanaka (1217) - 1st, Nationals
Yuma Yamamoto (1151) - 8th, Nationals
Ririka Hironaka (1151) - 21st, Nationals
Nanami Watanabe (1140) - 4th, Nationals
Wakana Kabasawa (1132) - 10th, Nationals
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Nagisa Shimotabira (1125) - 7th, Nationals

10000 m (1166)
Ririka Hironaka (17/28) - 30:39.71

100 mH (1185)
Mako Fukube (16/40) - 12.73 +1.1 m/s - 4th, Nationals
Yumi Tanaka (1236) - 3rd, Nationals
Masumi Aoki (1233) - 2nd, Nationals
Asuka Terada (1219) - 1st, Nationals
Chisato Kiyoyama (1194) - 5th, Nationals

400 mH (1140)
Ami Yamamoto (1146) - 1st, Nationals
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Eri Utsunomiya (1138) - 2nd, Nationals

Long Jump (1159)
Sumire Hata (1222) - 1st, Nationals

Triple Jump (1128)
Mariko Morimoto (1177) - 1st, Nationals
Maoko Takashima (1129) - 2nd, Nationals

Javelin Throw (1061)
Haruka Kitaguchi (5/36) - 65.68 - 2nd, Nationals
Marina Saito (1155) - 1st, Nationals
Mahiro Osa (1112) - 4th, Nationals
Momone Ueda (1079) - 3rd, Nationals
Yuka Sato (1057) - 5th, Nationals
Kiho Kuze (1054) - 9th, Nationals

Marathon
Mizuki Matsuda (14/98) - 2:20:52
Rika Kaseda (16/98) - 2:21:55
Sayaka Sato (17/98) - 2:22:13

20 kmRW (1088)
Nanako Fujii (17/50) - 1:29:01
Kumiko Okada (1158)
Ayane Yanai (1129)
Serena Sonoda (1110)
Miyu Naito (1091)

35 kmRW
Kumiko Okada (9/50) - 2:44:11
Serena Sonoda (10/50) - 2:44:25
Masumi Fuchise (34/50) - 2:54:29

Men

100 m (1189)
Ryuichiro Sakai (1244) - 1st, Nationals
Hiroki Yanagita (1194) - 2nd, Nationals
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (1189) - 8th, Nationals
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Yuki Koike (1187) - 3rd, Nationals
Taju Hongo (1186) - 5th, Nationals

200 m (1174)
Towa Uzawa (1216) - 1st, Nationals
Shota Iizuka (1176) - 5th, Nationals
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Soshi Mizukubo (1163) - 3rd, Nationals

400 m (1163)
Yuki Joseph Nakajima (1239) - 1st, Nationals
Kentaro Sato (1192) - 3rd, Nationals
Fuga Sato (1177) - 2nd, Nationals
Kenki Imaizumi (1177) - 4th, Nationals

5000 m (1162)
Kazuya Shiojiri (1186) - 1st, Nationals
Hyuga Endo (1178) - 2nd, Nationals
Keita Sato (1173) - 4th, Nationals
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Yuta Bando (1160) - 24th, Nationals

110 mH (1182)
Shunsuke Izumiya (5/40) - 13.04 -0.9 m/s - 1st, Nationals
Shunya Takayama (9/40) - 13.10 +0.6 m/s - 2nd, Nationals
Rachid Muratake (15/40) - 13.25 +0.3 m/s
Shuhei Ishikawa (1245) - 4th, Nationals
Taiga Yokochi (1198) - 3rd, Nationals
Higashi Ishida-Thomas (1188)

400 mH (1159)
Yusaku Kodama (1221) - 3rd, Nationals
Takayuki Kishimoto (1203) - 8th, Nationals
Kazuki Kurokawa (1199)
Kaito Tsutsue (1196) - 5th, Nationals
Tenjiro Tanaka (1181)
Daiki Ogawa (1168) - 1st, Nationals
Hiromu Yamauchi (1165) - 2nd, Nationals
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Tatsuhiro Yamamoto (1158)
Haruto Deguchi (1157) - 6th, Nationals

3000 mSC (1161)
Ryuji Miura (5/36) - 8:09.91 - 1st, Nationals
Ryoma Aoki (1177) - 7th, Nationals
Seiya Sunada (1161) - 2nd, Nationals

High Jump (1144)
Ryoichi Akamatsu (1237) - 1st, Nationals
Tomohiro Shinno (1224) - 3rd, Nationals
Yuto Seko (1171) - 5th, Nationals
Naoto Hasegawa (1146) - 2nd, Nationals

Pole Vault (1153)
Seito Yamamoto (1157) - NM, Nationals

Long Jump (1175)
Hiromichi Yoshida (14/36) - 8.26 m +1.0 m/s - 10th, Nationals
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Shotaro Shiroyama (1167) - 1st, Nationals

Triple Jump (1132)
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Hikaru Ikehata (1124) - 1st, Nationals

Javelin Throw (1101)
Roderick Genki Dean (1215) - 1st, Nationals
Ryohei Arai (1143) - 2nd, Nationals
Yuta Sakiyama (1140) - 3rd, Nationals
Kenji Ogura (1140) - 10th, Nationals

Marathon
Ichitaka Yamashita (16/99) - 2:05:51
Kenya Sonota (18/99) - 2:05:59
Kazuya Nishiyama (25/99) - 2:06:45

20 kmRW
Toshikazu Yamanishi (1/50) - defending champion - 1:19:07
Koki Ikeda (5/50) - 1:18:36
Eiki Takahashi (10/50) - 1:19:04
Yuta Koga (13/50) - 1:19:19

35 kmRW
Tomohiro Noda (4/50) - 2:23:13
Masatora Kawano (5/50) - 2:23:15
Satoshi Maruo (11/50) - 2:25:49

4x400 m Relay 
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