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Japanese Team for 2025 Asian Championships

The 2025 Asian Athletics Championships take place May 27-31 in Gumi, South Korea, a key chance for Japanese athletes to score points to help get them to September's Tokyo World Championships. Japan's team of 35 women and 36 men for the Asian Championships as of April 25:

Women

100 m
Midori Mikase (Sumitomo Denko) - 11.37
Aiha Yamagata (Fukuoka Univ.) - 11.41

200 m
Arisa Kimishima (DKS) - 23.16
Remi Tsuruta (Minami Kyushu Family Mart) - 23.17

400 m
Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) - 52.29

800 m
Rin Kubo (Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S.) - 1.59.93
Ayano Shiomi (Iwatani Sangyo) - 2:01.93

1500 m
Yume Goto (Uniqlo) - 4:09.41
Tomoka Kimura (Sekisui Kagaku) - 4:09.79

5000 m
Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:12.97
Sora Shinozakura (Yokoyama T&F Assoc.) - 15:23.82

10000 m
Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 30:39.71
Mikuni Yada (Edion) - 31:20.09

100 mH
Mako Fukube (NKK) - 12.69
Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu) - 12.83

400 mH
Ami Yamamoto (Fujitsu) - 56.06
Miku Takino (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 56.81

3000 mSC
Manami Nishiyama (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 9:39.28
Miu Saito (Panasonic) - 9:39.46

High Jump
Nagisa Takahashi (Senko) - 1.92 m
Juriai Tsuda (Tsukiji Kindako) - 1.85 m

Pole Vault
Misaki Morota (At Home) - 4.48 m
Akari Osakaya (Ehime T&F Assoc) - 4.20 m

Long Jump
Sumire Hata (Sumitomo Denko) - 6.97 m
Maya Takeuchi (Mizuno) - 6.49 m

Triple Jump
Mariko Morimoto (Orico) - 14.16 m
Maoko Takashima (Kyudenko) - 13.83 m

Discus Throw
Nanaka Kori (Niigata Albirex) - 60.72 m
Maki Saito (Taihei Dengue) - 58.47 m

Hammer Throw
Joy Iris Macarthur (unattached) - 70.51 m
Raika Murakami (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 66.82 m

Javelin Throw
Sae Takemoto (Orico) - 62.39 m
Momone Ueda (Zenrin) - 61.75 m

20 km Race Walk
Ayane Yanai (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 1:29:44
Yukiko Umeno (Locok) - 1:31:02

Men

100 m
Hiroki Yanagida (Toyo Univ.) - 10.02
Akihiro Higashida (Sekisho) - 10.10

200 m
Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) - 20.11
Towa Uzawa (JAL) - 20.23

400 m
Kentaro Sato (Fujitsu) - 44.77
Yuki Joseph Nakajima (Fujitsu) - 45.04

800 m
Ko Ochiai (Komazawa Univ.) - 1:44.80
Yukichi Ishii (Penn State Univ.) - 1:46.22

1500 m
Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 3:35.62
Nanami Arai (Honda) - 3:36.63

5000 m
Keita Sato (Komazawa Univ.) - 13:09.45
Nagiya Mori (Honda) - 13:15.07

10000 m
Jun Kasai (Asahi Kasei) - 27:17.46
Mebuki Suzuki (Toyota) - 20:20.33

110 mH
Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.04
Rachid Muratake (JAL) - 13.04

400 mH
Ken Toyoda (Toyota) - 47.99
Shunta Inoue (Fujitsu) - 48.46

3000 mSC
Yutaro Niinae (Aisan Kogyo) - 8:20.36
Tetsu Sasaki (Waseda Univ.) - 8:29.05

High Jump
Tomohiro Shinno (Kyudenko) - 2.31 m
Naoto Hasegawa (Niigata Albirex) - 2.25 m

Pole Vault
Seito Yamamoto (Toyota) - 5.71 m
Tomoya Karasawa (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) - 5.62 m

Long Jump
Hibiki Tsuha (Otsuka Seiyaku) - 8.23 m
Keito Yamaura (Katsuura Golf Club) - 8.13 m

Discus Throw
Yuji Tsutsumi (Alsok) - 62.59 m
Masateru Yugami (Toyota) - 62.52 m

Hammer Throw
Shota Fukuda (Sumitomo Denko) - 73.91 m
Tatsuto Nakagawa (Niigata Albirex) - 73.35 m

Javelin Throw
Ryohei Arai (Suzuki) - 86.83 m
Yuta Sakiyama (Ehime T&F Assoc.) - 83.54 m

20 km Race Walk
Kento Yoshikawa (Sunbelx) - 1:17:38
Ryo Hamanishi (Sunbelx) - 1:17:42

Decathlon
Yuma Maruyama (Sumitomo Denko) - 8021
Keisuke Okuda (With Us) - 8008

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