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Bangkok Asian Athletics Championships Preview and Streaming



We'd like to give you preview and streaming info for the Asian Athletics Championships starting tomorrow in Bangkok, Thailand, but there's not a lot to go on. Streaming should be here under the "Live" tab, but as the JAAF site notes, "There's a chance a link to streaming might be released right before the start. If one is announced, we'll let you know." 42 countries are set to compete, but no overall entry lists have been made public anywhere we've looked. The Asian Athletics Association site isn't very helpful either, its top story being the federation bureaucrats' "Gala and Awards Celebration for the 50th Anniversary of Asian Athletics Association" and almost nothing about its championships apart from a statistics PDF that starts off with a long autobiography by an AAA exec.

The meet schedule is up and it has links to event start lists, but nothing has been added there yet. So, about all we can tell you right now is about the Japanese team, who on it stands to benefit most relative to next month's Budapest World Championships, and who some of their main competition might be.

Not many Japanese athletes have hit the qualifying standards for Budapest, the only ones right now to have done it being in the 5000 m, 10000 m, 100 mH, javelin throw, marathon, 20 km race walk and 35 km race walk for women, and the 110 mH, 3000 mSC, long jump, marathon, 20 km race walk, 35 km race walk and 4x400 m for men. So an area championships right before the World qualifying deadline on July 30 is really important for a lot of the prospective Japanese team that needs to score last-minute points to hang on to a spot in the Budapest quota for their event. And given Japan's place in the sport in Asia, for a lot of them it's probably going to be pretty easy pickings.

Ayano Shiomi is currently the #1-ranked female 800 m runner in Asia. At 6 points outside the 800 m quota, if she were to win over India's K.M. Chanda and Sri Lankan Gayanthika Artigala it would only take a 2:11.50 for her to get up into the top 56. Even a 3rd-place finish would only take a 2:09.07, so there's a pretty good chance she'll succeed.

Ami Yamamoto is 40th of 40 in the women's 400 mH, with the Philippines' Robyn Brown only 1 point behind and India's Vitaya Ramrod another 2 points back. China's Jiadie Mo is well ahead, so if Yamamoto were to come 4th she would need to run at least 59.86 to have a chance of staying in the top 40. That seems doable.

National Championships 3rd-placer Kentaro Sato is at 41st out of 48 in the men's 400 m quota and should make it regardless of what he does in Bangkok. 2nd-placer Fuga Sato is the first athlete outside the Budapest quota. Kentaro and Kazakhstan's Mikhail Litvin are his main competition, giving him a minimum target of 47.39 and 3rd to get in.

NR holder Sho Kawamoto is ranked #2 in Asia in the men's 800 m behind India's Krishan Kumar. He's currently 18 points outside the Budapest quota, meaning he would need to run 1:49.52 and finish in the top 2 to make the quota.

1500 m NR holder Kazuki Kawamura is #1 in Asia. At 19 points outside the quota he's in the same kind of situation as Kawamoto, and he would need a pretty modest 3:45.06 and the win to join the potential Budapest lineup.

Fastest-ever Japanese collegiate 10000 m runner Ren Tazawa has one of the toughest roads to Budapest ahead of him in Bangkok. A lot depends on whether Bahrain field sub-27:10 man Birhanu Balew, but with Saudi Tariq Ahmed Al Amri under 27:45 this season Tazawa needs to go sub-28 and finish 3rd to have a chance of going to Worlds. No small task in mid-July Bangkok weather.

Nationals runner-up Seiya Sunada is right outside the 3000 mSC quota. Bangkok teammate Ryoma Aoki and India's Avinash Mukund Sable are ahead, meaning that with a 3rd-place finish Sunada would need to run a pretty easy 8:51.48 to break in.

Assuming top competition Sanghyeok Woo of South Korea and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar showed up along with teammate Ryoichi Akamatsu, Nationals runner-up Naoto Hasegawa would finish 4th at best. Currently 9 points outside the quota, that means he would need to jump 2.07 m for a chance of going to Budapest.

Seito Yamamoto is 36th of 36 in the men's pole vault, missing out on a better ranking after finishing Nationals with an NM next to his name. At 5th in Asia pretty much anything over 5.00 m would probably be enough to improve his standing, but the jury's out on whether Yamamoto is ready.

Shotaro Shiroyama is also at 36th of 36 in the men's long jump quota, Shiroyama is ranked 6th in Asia, meaning the bar is pretty low for Shiroyama to improve his position at around 7.40 m.

Ryota Kashimura is 34 points outside the men's hammer throw quota, but at #2 in Asia behind China's Qi Wang it's possible he could get there with a throw over 72.70 m, something he did to win May's Shizuoka International Meet.

Women

100 m
Arisa Kimishima - 11.36
Midori Mikase - 11.46

200 m
Arisa Kimishima - 23.17
Remi Tsuruta - 23.17

400 m
Nanako Matsumoto - 52.56
Haruna Kuboyama - 53.07

800 m
Ayano Shiomi - 2:02.57
Airi Ikezaki - 2:03.08

1500 m
Nozomi Tanaka - 3:59.19
Yume Goto - 4:09.41

5000 m
Yuma Yamamoto - 15:16.71
Nanami Watanabe - 15:25.48

10000 m 
Momoka Kawaguchi - 31:57.81
Haruka Kokai - 32:01.83

100 mH 
Masumi Aoki  - 12.86
Asuka Terada - 12.86

400 mH 
Ami Yamamoto - 56.06
Eri Utsunomiya - 56.50

3000 mSC
Reimi Yoshimura - 9:39.86
Chikako Mori - 9:45.27

High Jump
Nagisa Takahashi - 1.85 m

Pole Vault
Misaki Morota - 4.41 m
Megumi Dainobu - 4.18 m

Long Jump 
Sumire Hata - 6.75 m
Ayaka Kora - 6.50 m

Triple Jump 
Mariko Morimoto - 14.16 m
Maoko Takashima - 13.82 m

Shot Put
Nanaka Kori - 16.57 m

Discus Throw
Nanaka Kori - 59.03 m
Maki Saito - 57.43 m

Hammer Throw
Joy McArthur - 69.89 m
Raika Murakami - 65.33 m

Javelin Throw
Marina Saito - 62.37 m
Momone Ueda - 61.75 m

20 kmRW
Yukiko Umeno - 1:33:38
Miyu Naito - 1:33:41

Heptathlon
Yuki Yamasaki - 5975
Karin Odama - 5720

4x100 m Relay
Arisa Kimishima - 11.36
Midori Mikase - 11.46
Masumi Aoki - 11.48
Remi Tsuruta - 11.48
Shuri Aono - 11.53
Miu Kurashige - 11.58

4x400 m Relay
Nanako Matsumoto - 52.56
Haruna Kuboyama - 53.07
Ami Yamamoto - 54.84
Shuri Aono - 54.87
Eri Utsunomiya - 54.97
Remi Tsuruta - 56.30

Mixed 4x400 m Relay
Nanako Matsumoto - 52.56
Haruna Kuboyama - 53.07
Shuri Aono - 54.87
Fuga Sato - 45.26
Kentaro Sato - 45.31
Kenki Imaizumi - 45.54

Men

100 m
Ryuichiro Sakai - 10.02
Hiroki Yanagita - 10.13

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
Mikuto Kaneko - 1:45.85

1500 m
Kazuki Kawamura - 3:35.42
Yusuke Takahashi - 3:38.69

5000 m
Hyuga Endo - 13:10.69
Kazuya Shiojiri - 13:16.53

10000 m
Ren Tazawa - 27:23.44
Yuto Imae - 27:50.93

110 mH
Shunya Takayama - 13.10
Taiga Yokochi - 13.45

400 mH
Yusaku Kodama - 48.77
Kaito Tsutsue - 49.35

3000 mSC
Ryoma Aoki - 8:20.09
Seiya Sunada - 8:26.36

High Jump
Ryoichi Akamatsu - 2.29 m
Naoto Hasegawa - 2.26 m

Pole Vault
Seito Yamamoto - 5.77 m
Tomoya Karasawa - 5.60 m

Long Jump
Shotaro Shiroyama - 8.40 m

Triple Jump 
Riku Ito - 17.00 m
Hikaru Ikehata - 16.75 m

Shot Put
Hitoshi Okumura - 18.42 m

Discus Throw
Yuji Tsutsumi - 62.59 m
Masateru Yugami - 62.16 m

Hammer Throw
Ryota Kashimura - 72.92 m
Shota Fukuda - 71.79 m

Javelin Throw 
Ryohei Arai - 86.83 m
Roderick Genki Dean - 84.28 m

20 kmRW 
Yutaro Murayama - 1:19:25
Hiroto Jujo - 1:20:14

Decathlon
Yuma Maruyama - 7816
Shun Taue - 7764

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