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Yamamoto 3000 m Gold at Asian Indoor Championships



The Asian Indoor Athletics Championships took place Feb. 17-19 in Tehran, Iran, women's events happening in morning sessions and men's in evening sessions without overlap. The small Japanese team of 14 took four gold medals, four silvers, and one bronze.
  • Asuka Terada got things rolling for the small Japanese team with a silver in the women's 60 mH, running 8.18 to win her heat and then 8.21 in the final behind Indian gold medalist Jyothi Yarraji's 8.12.
  • China's Zhang Mingkun fouled on 4 of his 6 attempts in the men's, but his 5th attempt of 7.97 m was enough for gold. Japan's Yuto Toriumi and Daiki Oda took silver and bronze at 7.89 m and 7.76 m.
  • Nanako Matsumoto won the women's 400 m final in 55.14 over Iranians Nazanin Fatemeh Eidan and Kazan Rostami, with Haruna Kuboyama 4th in 56.28 almost a second behind Rostami.
  • Yuma Yamamoto had a dominant run for gold in the women's 3000 m, running 9:16.71 to win by almost 10 seconds over India's Ankita and Kyrgyzstan's Kalil Kyzy Ainuska.
  • Ryoichi Akamatsu and Yuto Seko went 1-2 in the men's high jump, both clearing 2.19 m but Seko in the silver position after missing his first attempt at 2.15 m. Bangladeshi Mahfuzur Rahman won bronze at 2.15 m.
  • Shuhei Tada won silver in the men's 60 m, Oman's Ali Anwar Ali Al Balushi taking gold in 6.52, Tada running 6.56, and North Korea's Jo Kum Ryong bronze in 6.66. Tada ran 6.60 in the opening heats and 6.53 in the semi-finals.
  • Yuma Maruyama dominated in the men's heptathlon, winning six of the seven events to take gold.
Non-medalists included:
  • Mariko Morimoto was 4th in the women's triple jump at 13.37 m on her final attempt, 11 cm out of the medals.
  • Shingo Sawa was 6th in the men's pole vault final, clearing only 5.25 m. Gold medalist Zhang Tao of China cleared 5.56 m.
  • Hikaru Ikehata took 4th in the men's triple jump, 30 cm out of the medals at 15.88 m on his opening jump.
  • The current #2 Japanese collegiate man over 5000 m, Shunsuke Yoshii ran only 8:20.34 in the 3000 m for 5th.
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Stefan said…
Yuma Yamamoto's winning time of 9:16.71 even at altitude, shows the level of competition at this event. A gold medal is a gold medal but still I'm sure she would have wanted to go faster. 8:40.05 by Nozomi Tanaka on 11 Feb in the US shows the current gap between the two athletes at this event. Looking at Yamamoto's profile and progression in her events her times are not improving in a lot of her events since her move to the Sekisui team in 2023.
February 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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