Breaking Down The Potential Japanese Team in Paris

We're into the last month of qualifying for the Paris Olympics, with the final deadline in most events falling on June 30. With Japan's trials coming at its National Championships June 27-30, a quick look at who is and could be on the Olympic team if they make the top 3 there, relays teams excluded. Breakdown is by people with standard, people currently in their event quota, and people within shooting distance of the quota. We'll update weekly through the end of June.

Men

100 m (10.00)

Abdul Hakim Sani Brown - 9.97 (+0.3) - standard

Hiroki Yanagita - 1259 (28/56 in quota)

Shuhei Tada - 1229 (38/56 in quota)

Akihiro Higashida - 1222 (in quota)

Yoshihide Kiryu - 1205 (in quota)

Ryo Wada - 1194 (in quota)

200 m (20.16)

Towa Uzawa - 1271 (26/48 in quota)

Shota Iizuka - 1207 (35/48 in quota)

Koki Ueyama - 1202 (37/48 in quota)

Yudai Nishi - 1183 (48/48 in quota)

400 m (45.00)

Kentaro Sato - 44.77 - standard

Fuga Sato - 44.88 - standard

Yuki Joseph Nakajima - 1248 (39/48 in quota)

800 m (1:44.70)

none

1500 m (3:33.50)

none

5000 m (13:05.00)

Kazuya Shiojiri - 1161 (51/42 in quota)

Hyuga Endo - 1157 (53/42 in quota)

Keita Sato - 1151 (56/42 in quota)

10000 m (27:00.00)

Tomoki Ota - 1249 (25/27 in quota)

Jun Kasai - 1232 (27/27 in quota)

Akira Aizawa - 1228 (29/27 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 (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 - 1237 (in quota)

Haruto Deguchi - 1223 (in quota)

Men's 3000 mSC (8:15.00)

Ryuji Miura - 8:13.70 - standard

Ryoma Aoki - 1245 (24/36 in quota)

Seiya Sunada - 1177 (37/36 in quota)

Men's High Jump (2.33 m)

Ryoichi Akamatsu - 1261 (10/32 in quota)

Tomohiro Shinno - 1232 (16/32 in quota)

Yuto Seko - 1186 (25/32 in quota)

Naoto Hasegawa - 1184 (in quota)

Men's Pole Vault (5.82 m)

none

Men's Long Jump (8.27 m)

Yuki Hashioka - 8.28 m (+1.4) - standard

Yuto Toriumi - 1182 (34/32 in quota)

Men's Triple Jump (17.22 m)

Hikaru Ikehata - 1147 (40/32 in quota)

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 - 1140 (40/32 in quota)

Men's Javelin Throw (85.50 m)

Roderick Genki Dean - 1243 (12/32 in quota)

Yuta Sakiyama - 1140 (34/32 in quota)

Ryohei Arai - 11:40 (35/32 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 (29/24 in quota)

Women

100 m (11.07)

none

200 m (22.57)

Remi Tsuruta - 1152 (57/48 in quota)

400 m (50.95)

none

800 m (1:59.30)

none

1500 m (4:02.50)

Nozomi Tanaka - 1234 (30/45 in quota)

Yume Goto - 1176 (49/45 in quota)

Tomoka Kimura - 1159 (57/45 in quota)

5000 m (14:52.00)

Nozomi Tanaka - 14:29.18 - standard

Yuma Yamamoto - 1187 (30/42 in quota)

Ririka Hironaka - 1172 (34/42 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 (33/40 in quota)

Asuka Terada - 1212 (40/40 in quota)

Mako Fukube - 1207 (42/40 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 - 1151 (35/32 in quota)

Women's Pole Vault (4.73 m)

Misaki Morota - 1137 (37/32 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 (18/32 in quota)

Maoko Takashima - 1135 (42/32 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)

Joy McArthur - 1105 (42/32 in quota)

Women's Javelin Throw (64.00 m)

Haruka Kitaguchi - 67.38 m - standard

Marina Saito - 1168 (16/32 in quota)

Momone Ueda - 1151 (23/32 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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