JAAF Announces Team of 58 for September's Hangzhou Asian Games

The JAAF has announced a team of 58 for September's rescheduled Hangzhou Asian Games, something on a par with the Commonwealth Games but with a bigger share of the world's population. 22 women and 36 men will stretch out a long season spanning over two months from the Bangkok Asian Championships to the Budapest World Championships to Hangzhou in quest of points for next year's Paris Olympics.

Women

100 m

Arisa Kimishima - 11.36

200 m

Arisa Kimishima - 23.17

800 m

Ayano Shiomi - 2:02.57

1500 m

Yume Goto - 4:09.41

5000 m

Ririka Hironaka - 14:52.84

Yuma Yamamoto - 15:16.71

10000 m

Ririka Hironaka - 30:39.71

Haruka Kokai - 32:01.83

100 mH

Masumi Aoki - 12.86

Yumi Tanaka - 12.89

400 mH

Ami Yamamoto - 56.06

Pole Vault

Misaki Morota - 4.41 m

Long Jump

Sumire Hata - 6.75 m

Triple Jump

Mariko Morimoto - 14.16 m

Javelin Throw

Sae Takemoto - 62.39 m

Marina Saito - 62.37 m

20 kmRW

Nanako Fujii - 1:28:58

Yukiko Umeno - 1:33:38

35 kmRW

Maika Yagi - 2:55:55

Masumi Fuchise - 2:57:51

Marathon

Hikari Onishi - 2:25:54

Mirai Waku - 2:25:58

Heptathlon

Yuki Yamasaki - 5975

Karin Odama - 5720

Men

100 m

Yoshihide Kiryu - 9.98

Yuki Koike - 9.98

200 m

Koki Ueyama - 20.26

Towa Uzawa - 20.32

400 m

Fuga Sato - 45.26

Kentaro Sato - 45.31

800 m

Sho Kawamoto - 1:45.75

1500 m

Kazuki Kawamura - 3:35.42

Kazuto Iizawa - 3:36.55

5000 m

Kazuya Shiojiri - 13:16.53

Keita Sato - 13:22.91

10000 m

Ren Tazawa - 27:23.44

Kazuya Shiojiri - 27:45.18

110 mH

Shunya Takayama - 13.10

Shuhei Ishikawa - 13.36

400 mH

Kazuki Kurokawa - 48.68

Yusaku Kodama - 48.77

3000 mSC

Ryoma Aoki - 8:20.09

Seiya Sunada - 8:26.36

High Jump

Tomohiro Shinno - 2.31 m

Ryoichi Akamatsu - 2.29 m

Pole Vault

Seito Yamamoto - 5.77 m

Long Jump

Shotaro Shiroyama - 8.40 m

Natsuki Yamakawa - 8.17 m

Hammer Throw

Ryota Kashimura - 72.92 m

Shota Fukuda - 71.79 m

Javelin Throw

Roderick Genki Dean - 84.28 m

Kenji Ogura - 81.63 m

20 kmRW

Tomohiro Noda - 1:19:00

Yutaro Murayama - 1:19:25

35 kmRW

Hayato Katsuki - 2:28:53

Subaru Ishida - 2:30:37

Marathon

Yohei Ikeda - 2:06:53

Toshiki Sadakata - 2:07:05

Decathlon

Yuma Maruyama - 7816

Shun Taue - 7764

4x100 m Relay

Shoto Uno - 20.49 (200 m)

other entered sprinters

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