Izumiya Breaks 110 m Hurdles NR - National Track and Field Championships Day 4 Highlights

The 107th National Track and Field Championships and 39th U20 National Championships wrapped up Sunday in Osaka with a new national record and a meet record on the books. Running into a -0.9 m/s headwind, Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) pushed the second half of the men's 100 mH final to shave 0.2 off the NR with a 13.04 for the win. Izumiya was already at #2 in the world this season with his previous SB of 13.07, but his new NR inched him closer to current world leader Grant Holloway's 13.01.

Nine years after setting the Japanese men's NR, Sho Kawamoto (Suzuki) unexpectedly turned in a 1:46.18 MR to win the 800 m. Kawamoto was pushed over the last 200 m by Junya Matsumoto (FAJ), whose 1:46.52 PB for 2nd was enough to move him up to all-time Japanese #10.

The absence of NR holder Ryota Yamagata and relay team regulars Yoshihide Kiryu, Shuhei Tada and Aska Cambridge from Nationals has raised a lot questions about the Japanese men's 4x100 relay team's chances at the Budapest World Championships this summer. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Toray) taking last in the men's 100 m final didn't help either, but a 10.11 win from Ryuichiro Sakai (Osaka Gas), a 10.13 PB for 2nd from Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) and a passable 10.18 for 3rd from Yuki Koike (Sumitomo Denko) showed that there's at least the core of a decent team waiting to pick up from the bigger names.

NR holder Naoto Tobe was likewise absent from the men's high jump, where Ryoichi Akamatsu (Awas) cleared 2.29 m for the first time to take the national title. Women's 5000 m NR holder Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) has had a rough season, and that didn't show any signs of changing as she finished only 21st in 15:55.88, 45 seconds behind winner Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance). The key player on Japan's Area Record-setting 4x400 m at the Eugene World Championships last summer, Julian Walsh was another absence in the men's 400 m, where Joseph Nakajima (Toyo Univ.) and Fuga Sato (Mizuno) ran 45.15 and 45.26 PBs to move up to all-time Japanese #5 and #8.

It took PBs to win most of the other senior finals too. Ami Yamamoto (Ritsumeikan Univ.) won the women's 400 mH in a 56.06 PB. Airi Ikezaki (Daiso) took the women's 800 m with a 2:03.08. Hitoshi Okumura (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) threw a PB 18.42 m to win the men's shot put. Women's 100 m champ Arisa Kimishima (DIS) ran a PB 23.17 +0.0 in the 200 m to make it a double. Six of the day's U20 events were won in PBs too, with Takuma Ohama (Sendai Ikuei H.S.) missing the U20 3000 m MR by a fraction of a second in 8:08.21.

107th National Track and Field Championships

Day Four Highlights

Yanmar Stadium Nagai, Osaka, 4 June 2023

complete results

U20 Women's Shot Put Final

1. Niko Murase (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 14.60 m - PB

2. Chiharu Saka (Namisho H.S.) - 14.20 m

3. Hikari Tekda (Osaka Taiiku Univ.) - 13.82 m

U20 Men's High Jump Final

1. Minato Fukushi (Myojo Gakuen H.S.) - 2.14 m - PB

2. Yasuhide Maekawa (Tokai Univ.) - 2.11 m - PB

3. Joel Chukunere (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2.05 m

U20 Women's Long Jump Final

1. Riko Shirato (Nihon Univ.) - 5.97 m -1.0 m/s

2. Sakura Maenishi (Kinkidai Wakayama H.S.) - 5.92 m +0.2 m/s

3. Hikari Takamiya (Otsuka H.S.) - 5.91 m -0.2 m/s - PB

U20 Men's Shot Put Final

1. Hyogo Watanabe (Niigata Iryo Fukushi Univ.) - 18.34 m

2. Akito Yamada (Hosei Univ.) - 18.08 m

3. Shinya Tokairin (Fukuoka Univ.) - 16.50 m

U20 Women's 400 mH Final

1. Haru Hiraki (Osaka Seikei Univ.) - 59.67 - PB

2. Serina Shimizu (Shiritsu Funabashi H.S.) - 59.84 - PB

3. Moeno Tsukamoto (Nittai Univ.) - 59.85

U20 Women's 800 m Final

1. Riho Hirano (Chukyo H.S.) - 2:09.34

2. Haruka Tamura (Hoseini H.S.) - 2:09.62 - PB

3. Yui Nagashima (Moka Joshi H.S.) - 2:09.62

U20 Men's 800 m Final

1. Kotaro Mori (Tokai Gakuen Univ.) - 1:51.68

2. Hinata Shimizu (Kantaiheiyo Univ.) - 1:51.88

3. Naoki Yamada (Tokai Univ.) - 1:52.01

U20 Men's 110 mH Final +0.1 m/s

1. Kyosuke Yamanaka (Shiritsu Funabashi H.S.) - 13.54

2. Kaisei Uchida (Juntendo Univ.) - 13.64

3. Retsu Kimura (Setsunan Univ.) - 13.64

U20 Women's 200 m Final -0.5 m/s

1. Miu Sugimoto (Shiritsu Funabashi H.S.) - 23.96 - PB

2. Miu Kurashige (Konan Univ.) - 23.96

3. Riko Yamakoshi (Waseda Univ.) - 24.33

U20 Men's 400 m Final

1. Yuhei Tominaga (Juntendo Univ.) - 46.86

2. Masato Harada (Meiji Univ.) - 46.97 - PB

3. Yusei Tanino (Okayama Kogyo H.S.) - 47.40

Women's Shot Put Final

1. Nanaka Kori (Niigata Albirex RC) - 16.19 m

2. Honoka Oyama (Imamura Byoin) - 15.75 m

3. Fumika Ono (Tsukuba Univ. Grad School) - 15.28 m

U20 Men's 100 m Final +0.4 m/s

1. Yomei Fukuzawa (Tokai Univ.) - 10.42 - PB

2. Fukuta Komuro (Tsukuba Shuei H.S.) - 10.42 - PB

3. Futo Hoshi (Sendai Ichi H.S.) - 10.47

Men's High Jump Final

1. Ryoichi Akamatsu (Awas) - 2.29 m - PB

2. Naoto Hasegawa (Niigata Albirex RC) - 2.25 m

3. Tomohiro Shinno (Kyudenko) - 2.25 m

U20 Women's 3000 m Final

1. Haruka Ogawa (Rikkyo Univ.) - 9:19.55

2. Ayaka Segi (Meijo Univ.) - 9:22.76

3. Hina Tada (Yamada Holdings) - 9:23.29

4. Misaki Nagaoka (Sendai Ikuei H.S.) - 9:23.49

5. Mei Nakano (Asahikawa Ryukoku H.S.) - 9:35.14

U20 Men's 3000 m Final

1. Takuma Ohama (Sendai Ikuei H.S.) - 8:08.21 - PB

2. Sora Takamori (Tokai Univ.) - 8:09.80 - PB

3. Jo Aoki (Tokyo Nogyo Daini H.S.) - 8:12.30

4. Nao Nanatsue (Kandai Hokuyo H.S.) - 8:14.48 - PB

5. Yuma Hazemoto (Kagoshima Josai H.S.) - 8:16.02 - PB

Women's Long Jump Final

1. Sumire Hata (Shibata Kogyo) - 6.63 m +0.6 m/s

2. Maya Takeuchi (Mizuno) - 6.30 m +1.5 m/s - PB

3. Ayaka Kora (JAL) - 6.26 m + 0.0 m/s

Women's 400 mH Final

1. Ami Yamamoto (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 56.06 - PB

2. Eri Utsunomiya (Hasegawa TC) - 56.65

3. Satsuki Umehara (Sumitomo Denko) - 57.02

Women's 800 m Final

1. Airi Ikezaki (Daiso) - 2:03.08 - PB

2. Ai Watanabe (Sonoda Gakuen Joshi Univ.) - 2:04.20 - PB

3. Ayano Shiomi (Iwatani Sangyo) - 2:04.21

Men's Shot Put Final

1. Hitoshi Okumura (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) - 18.42 m - PB

2. Ryuji Iwasa (Team SSP) - 18.36 m - PB

3. Daichi Morishita (Daiichi Gakuin H.S.) - 18.24 m

Men's 800 m Final

1. Sho Kawamoto (Suzuki) - 1:46.18 - MR

2. Junya Matsumoto (FAJ) - 1:46.52 - PB

3. Hinata Maeda (Kantaiheiyo Univ.) - 1:47.54 - PB

Women's 200 m Final +0.0 m/s

1. Arisa Kimishima (DIS) - 23.17 - PB

2. Remi Tsuruta (Minami Kyushu Family Mart) - 23.49

3. Haruna Kuboyama (Imamura Byoin) - 23.57 - PB

Men's 400 m Final

1. Joseph Nakajima (Toyo Univ.) - 45.15 - PB

2. Fuga Sato (Mizuno) - 45.26 - PB

3. Kentaro Sato (Fujitsu) - 45.47

Men's 110 mH Final -0.9 m/s

1. Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.04 - NR

2. Shunya Takayama (Zenrin) - 13.30

3. Taiga Yokote (Team SSP) - 13.51

4. Shuhei Ishikawa (Fujitsu) - 13.60

5. Ryota Fujii (Mie Sports Assoc.) - 13.61

6. Takumi Miyazaki (Chuo Univ.) - 13.88

DNF - Shusei Nomoto (Ehime T&F Assoc.)

DNF - Ryo Tokuoka (Kagotani)

Women's 5000 m Final

1. Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 15:10.63

2. Rika Kaseda (Daihatsu) - 15:21.72

3. Haruka Kokai (Daiichi Seimei) - 15:23.98 - PB

4. Nanami Watanabe (Panasonic) - 15:29.94

5. Chikako Mori (Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:30.39

6. Rino Goshima (Shiseido) - 15:30.60

7. Nagisa Shimotabira (Senko) - 15:30.91 - PB

8. Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:31.83

9. Momoka Kawaguchi (Uniqlo) - 15:34.68

10. Wakana Kabasawa (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 15:35.18

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21. Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 15:55.98

Men's 100 m Final -0.2 m/s

1. Ryuichiro Sakai (Osaka Gas) - 10.11

2. Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) - 10.13 - PB

3. Yuki Koike (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.18

4. Soshi Mizukubo (DIS) - 10.20

5. Taju Hongo (Onotech) - 10.21

6. Ryota Suzuki (Suzuki) - 10.26

7. Yugo Haitamataira (Hachinohe Gakuin Univ.) - 10.29

8. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Toray) - 10.59

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