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Breaking Down the Potential Japanese Team in Paris pt. 3

An update on standings for Japan's potential team at this summer's Paris Olympic Games a week out from the National Track and Field Championships. Final team nomination in most cases depends on a top 3 finish there, but as of this writing events where Japan could or will field three athletes having cleared the Olympic standard are the men's 110 mH, men's 400 mH, men's 20 kmRW and women's marathon. Other events that will or are likely to have a complete squad of three athletes include the men's 100 m, men's 200 m, men's 400 m, men's high jump, men's marathon, women's 5000 m, women's 10000 m, women's javelin throw, and women's 20 kmRW.

Main changes from last week:
  • Women's pole vault NR holder Misaki Morota won at the Harry Jerome Track Classic at 4.28 m, improving her spot in the Paris quota from 32nd to 31st.
  • Momone Ueda won the Asian Throwing Championships women's javelin throw at 61.32 m, moving up from 23rd to 22nd.
  • Nagisa Takahashi took 2nd in the NYC Grand Prix women's high jump with a 1.87 m clearance, but only moved from 36th to 35th outside the Paris quota of 32.
  • Yuki Joseph Nakajima won the New Life Invitational men's 400 m in 45.49 but dropped from 41st to 42nd in the quota of 48.
  • 10000 m national champion Jun Kasai was bumped out of the quota of 27 by Switzerland's European champ Dominic Lobalu, then fell to 29th when Eritrean Merhawi Mebrahtu cleared the Olympic standard in Spain. Lone remaining Japanese man Tomoki Ota was also bumped down from 25th to 26th.

Men

100 m (10.00)
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown - 9.97 (+0.3) - standard
Hiroki Yanagita - 1259 (33/56 in quota)
Shuhei Tada - 1229 (40/56 in quota)
Akihiro Higashida - 1222 (in quota)
Yoshihide Kiryu - 1206 (in quota)
Ryo Wada - 1196 (59/56 in quota)

200 m (20.16)
Towa Uzawa - 1271 (27/48 in quota)
Koki Ueyama - 1207 (40/48 in quota)
Shota Iizuka - 1207 (41/48 in quota)
Yudai Nishi - 1183 (53/48 in quota)

400 m (45.00)
Kentaro Sato - 44.77 - standard
Fuga Sato - 44.88 - standard
Yuki Joseph Nakajima - 1253 (42/48 in quota)

800 m (1:44.70)
none

1500 m (3:33.50)
none

5000 m (13:05.00)
Kazuya Shiojiri - 1161 (57/42 in quota)
Hyuga Endo - 1157 (59/42 in quota)

10000 m (27:00.00)
Tomoki Ota - 1249 (26/27 in quota)
Jun Kasai - 1232 (29/27 in quota)
Akira Aizawa - 1228 (31/27 in quota)

Men's 110 mH (13.27)
Rachid Muratake - 13.04 (-0.9) - standard
Shunsuke Izumiya - 13.06 (+1.3) - standard
Shusei Nomoto - 13.20 (+0.9) - standard
Shunya Takayama - 1280 (in quota)
Taiga Yokochi - 1216 (43/40 in quota)

Men's 400 mH (48.70)
Ken Toyoda - 48.36 - standard
Kazuki Kurokawa - 48.58 - standard
Kaito Tsutsue - 48.58 - standard
Yusaku Kodama - 1238 (in quota)
Haruto Deguchi - 1223 (in quota)

Men's 3000 mSC (8:15.00)
Ryuji Miura - 8:13.70 - standard
Ryoma Aoki - 1245 (26/36 in quota)
Seiya Sunada - 1177 (46/36 in quota)

Men's High Jump (2.33 m)
Ryoichi Akamatsu - 1261 (11/32 in quota)
Tomohiro Shinno - 1232 (18/32 in quota)
Yuto Seko - 1186 (30/32 in quota)
Naoto Hasegawa - 1184 (33/32 in quota)

Men's Pole Vault (5.82 m)
Shingo Sawa - 1173 (42/32 in quota)

Men's Long Jump (8.27 m)
Yuki Hashioka - 8.28 m (+1.4) - standard
Yuto Toriumi - 1182 (38/32 in quota)

Men's Triple Jump (17.22 m)
none

Men's Shot Put (21.50 m)
none

Men's Discus Throw (67.20 m)
none

Men's Hammer Throw (78.20 m)
Shota Fukuda - 1155 (39/32 in quota)

Men's Javelin Throw (85.50 m)
Roderick Genki Dean - 1243 (13/32 in quota)
Yuta Sakiyama - 1142 (37/32 in quota)
Ryohei Arai - 1140 (40/32 in quota)

Men's Marathon (2:08:10)
Suguru Osako - 2:06:13
Naoki Koyama - 2:06:33
Akira Akasaki - 2:09:01

Men's 20 km RW (1:20:10)
Koki Ikeda - 1:16:51
Ryo Hamanishi - 1:17:42
Yuta Koga - 1:17:42

Men's Decathlon (8460)
Yuma Maruyama - 1185 (32/24 in quota)

Women

100 m (11.07)
none

200 m (22.57)
none

400 m (50.95)
none

800 m (1:59.30)
none

1500 m (4:02.50)
Nozomi Tanaka - 1248 (30/45 in quota)
Yume Goto - 1176 (52/45 in quota)

5000 m (14:52.00)
Nozomi Tanaka - 14:29.18 - standard
Yuma Yamamoto - 1187 (33/42 in quota)
Ririka Hironaka - 1172 (37/42 in quota)
Wakana Kabasawa - 1160 (in quota)

10000 m (30:40.00)
Ririka Hironaka - 1286 (24/27 in quota)
Rino Goshima - 1246 (26/27 in quota)
Haruka Kokai - 1236 (27/27 in quota)

Women's 100 mH (12.77)
Yumi Tanaka - 1233 (35/40 in quota)
Asuka Terada - 1212 (42/40 in quota)
Mako Fukube - 1209 (46/40 in quota)

Women's 400 mH (54.85)
none

Women's 3000 mSC (9:23.00)
none

Women's High Jump (1.97 m)
Nagisa Takahashi - 1167 (35/32 in quota)

Women's Pole Vault (4.73 m)
Misaki Morota - 1144 (32/32 in quota)

Women's Long Jump (6.86 m)
Sumire Hata - 6.97 m (+0.5) - standard

Women's Triple Jump (14.55 m)
Mariko Morimoto - 1189 (23/32 in quota)

Women's Shot Put (18.80 m)
none

Women's Discus Throw (64.50 m)
none

Women's Hammer Throw (74.00 m)
none

Women's Javelin Throw (64.00 m)
Haruka Kitaguchi - 67.38 m - standard
Marina Saito - 1168 (18/32 in quota)
Momone Ueda - 1158 (22/32 in quota)
Yuka Sato - 1128 (in quota)

Women's Marathon (2:26:50)
Honami Maeda - 2:18:59
Yuka Suzuki - 2:24:09
Mao Ichiyama - 2:24:43

Women's 20 Km RW (1:29:20)
Nanako Fujii - 1:27:59 - standard
Kumiko Okada - 1:29:03 - standard
Ayane Yanai - 1170 (34/48 in quota)

Women's Heptathlon (6480)
none

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