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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