Kubo, Ochiai, Drury and Saku Chosei Lead Japan's Team For U20 World Championships

800 m national champions Rin Kubo and Ko Ochiai lead Japan's team for next month's Lima World U20 Championships, Kubo having just broken the NR with a 1:59.93 and Ochiai just off the NR at Nationals last month with a 1:45.82 in the heats. Sherry Drury is another one of Japan's big U20 hopes and will run the 1500 m, and 2023 National High School Ekiden champion Saku Chosei H.S. dominates the men's long distance squad with 3rd-years Yamato Hamaguchi in the 3000 m and 5000 m, Tetsu Sasaki in the 3000 m and 3000 mSC, and 2024 graduate Soma Nagahara in the 3000 m SC.

World Athletics U20 Championships Japanese Team

Lima, Peru, 27-31 Aug. 2024

complete team listing

Women (14)

800 m

Rin Kubo (Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S.) - 1:59.93

1500 m

Sherry Drury (Tsuyama H.S.) - 4:16.69

3000 m

Miyu Yamada (Meijo Univ.) - 9:16.12

Miu Suzuki (Tsukuba Univ.) - 9:19.53

5000 m

Kana Mizumoto (Edion) - 15:31.51

Yumi Yamamoto (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 15:47.74

100 m Hurdles

Ami Takahashi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 13.28

Miki Hayashi (Waseda Univ.) - 13.40

400 m Hurdles

Haru Hiraki (Osaka Seikei Univ.) - 58.02

Aki Yajima (Tokorozawa Nishi H.S.) - 58.58

10000 m Race Walk

Suzu Okuno (Naniwa H.S.) - 46:32 (road)

Suzuka Kuge (Shizuoka Futaba H.S.) - 49:56.91

Javelin Throw

Nozomi Sakurai (Chukyo Univ.) - 54.89 m

Men (26)

100 m

Naoki Nishioka (Osaka Gyosei H.S.) - 10.20

Fukuto Komuro (Tsukuba Shuei H.S.) - 10.31

200 m

Kei Wakana (Sano H.S.) - 20.88

Katsuki Sato (Tokyo Gakkan Niigata H.S.) - 20.90

400 m

Kentaro Shirahata (Toyo Univ.) - 46.55

Ryota Oishi (Hamamatsu Kaiseikan H.S.) - 46.57

800 m

Ko Ochiai (Shiga Gakuen H.S.) - 1:45.82

Togo Yoshizawa (Toho H.S.) - 1:51.39

1500 m

Koki Terada (Chuo Univ.) - 3:43.54

3000 m

Yamato Hamaguchi (Saku Chosei H.S.) - 8:01.92

Tetsu Sasaki (Saku Chosei H.S.). 8:02.56

5000 m

Yamato Hamaguchi (Saku Chosei H.S.) - 13:44.99

Kaito Matsui (Toyo Univ.) - 13:46.34

110 m Hurdles

Kyosuke Yamanaka (Hosei Univ.) - 13.43

Yu Hashimoto (Tokyo Nogyo Daini H.S.) - 13.53

400 m Hurdles

Kyo Kikuta (Hosei Daini H.S.) - 49.77

Kairi Gonda (Waseda Univ.) - 50.20

3000 m Steeplechase

Soma Nagahara (Juntendo Univ.) - 8:37.36

Tetsu Sasaki (Saku Chosei Univ.) - 8:39.15

10000 m Race Walk

Sotaro Osaka (Toyo Univ.) - 39:54.42

Taisei Yoshizaki (Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) - 40:39.33

High Jump

Kaisei Nakatani (Fukuoka Daiichi H.S.) - 2.19 m

Pole Vault

Ryota Murakoso (Nihon Univ.) - 5.30 m

Rikuya Yoshida (Kansai Univ.) - 5.25 m

Long Jump

Takuto Tsuchiya (Seiwa Gakuen H.S.) - 7.73 m

Eito Omori (Fukuoka Daiichi H.S.) - 7.58 m

Triple Jump

Koki Kanai (Juntendo Univ.) - 15.85 m

Decathlon

Ryo Takahashi (Keio Univ.) - 7235

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