Updates to Japan's Potential Team for Tokyo World Championships

No new additions to Japan's potential team for the Tokyo World Championships as things head into the last couple of weeks before the Aug. 24 qualifying deadline. The biggest mover this week was Naoto Hasegawa, 3rd in the men's high jump at July's National Championships, who scored back-to-back wins at the silver label Tirop P-T-S Meeting in Slovakia and gold label Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Hungary to move up from 23rd to 18th in the quota of 36. Ken Toyoda also picked up a couple of places in the men's 400 mH off a 49.37 for 6th at the IFAM Oordegem meet in Belgium.

Rin Suzuki's chances of making the Tokyo team in the men’s javelin throw got a boost too despite a weak performance at the P-T-S Meeting. The 4th-placer there, Belgium's Timothy Herman, scored just enough points to come in between Suzuki and Nationals 3rd-placer Gen Naganuma, who had been separated by only 1 point in the Road to Tokyo rankings. That bumped Naganuma out of the top 36 while leaving Suzuki at 35th, meaning the JAAF will pick Suzuki if he hangs on.

Oordegem had a big impact on men's distance, the results there pretty much putting National Championships 5000 m runner-up Nagiya Mori out of range of the 42-deep quota. 5000 m national champ Ryuto Igawa and 10000 m national champ Mebuki Suzuki both ran well there, Igawa with a 13:14.58 and Suzuki showing he's back from his fall at Nationals with a 13:16.43, but neither is anywhere close to overtaking Mori in the rankings let alone the top 42. But Suzuki still has a good chance of making the 10000 m, where he’s 2nd in line for a roll down spot.

National Championships men's 3000 mSC top 2 Ryoma Aoki and Yutaro Niinae were both knocked out of the quota by the super deep results in the Oordegem steeple, in Niinae's case even though he broke 8:20 for the first time. Niinae currently sits at 1st in line for any roll downs after the Aug. 24 deadline, meaning he has a realistic chance of still being on the Tokyo team, but with national champ Aoki currently the 4th-best outside the quota it doesn't look likely he'll pick up a spot. Fuga Sato also got bumped out of the men's 400 m quota, falling from 48th of 48 to 1st in line for a roll down.

Women

400 m (48 / 50.75 / 1209)

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Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) - 1200 - 4th, Nationals

800 m (56 / 1:59.00 / 1191)

43. Rin Kubo (Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S.) - 1236 - 1st, Nationals

1500 m (56 / 4:01.50 / 1165)

*27. Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 3:59.69 - 1st, Nationals

49. Tomoka Kimura (Sekisui Kagaku) - 1180 - 2nd, Nationals

5000 m (42 / 14:50.00 / 1181)

*12. Nozomi Tanaka (New Balance) - 14:31.88 - 1st, Nationals

36. Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 1202 - 7th, Nationals

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Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 1172 - 2nd, Nationals

Kana Mizumoto (Edion) - 1171 - 3rd, Nationals

10000 m (27 / 30:20.00 / 1218)

12. Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 1263 - 1st, Nationals

19. Mikuni Yada (Edion) - 1241 - 2nd, Nationals

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Rino Goshima (Shiseido) - 1212 - DNS, Nationals

100 mH (40 / 12.73 / 1234)

29. Hitomi Nakajima (Hasegawa) - 12.71 (+0.7) - 2nd, Nationals

31. Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu) - 1281 - 1st, Nationals

3000 mSC (36 / 9:18.00 / 1215)

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Miu Saito (Panasonic) - 1207 - 2nd, Nationals

High Jump (36 / 1.97 m / 1165)

25. Nagisa Takahashi (Senko) - 1193 - 2nd, Nationals

Long Jump (36 / 6.86 m / 1172)

35. Sumire Hata (Sumitomo Denko) - 1173 - 3rd, Nationals

Triple Jump (36 / 14.55 m / 1159)

26. Maoko Takashima (Kyudenko) - 1193 - 1st, Nationals

35. Mariko Morimoto (Orico) - 1160 - 3rd, Nationals

Discus Throw (36 / 64.50 / 1105)

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Nanaka Kori (Niigata Albirex) - 1097 - 1st, Nationals

Javelin Throw (36 / 64.00 / 1094)

*1. Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) - wild card - DNS, Nationals

15. Momone Ueda (Zenrin) - 1204 - 1st, Nationals

23. Sae Takemoto (Orico) - 1148 - 3rd, Nationals

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Marina Saito (Suzuki) - 1091 - 2nd, Nationals

Marathon (100 / 2:23:30 / 1035)

*13. Sayaka Sato (Sekisui Kagaku) - 2:20:59 - 2nd, Nagoya 2025

*14. Yuka Ando (Shimamura) - 2:21:18 - 1st, Nagoya 2024

*15. Kana Kobayashi (Otsuka Seiyaku) - 2:21:19 - 2nd, Osaka Women's 2025

20 km Race Walk (50 / 1:29:00 / 1125)

*5. Nanako Fujii (Edion) - 1:26:33 - 1st, Nationals

*19. Kumiko Okada (Fujitsu) - 1:28:17 - 2nd, Nationals

35. Ayane Yanai (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 1166 - 4th, Nationals

Yukiko Umeno (Juntendo Univ.) - 1131 - 3rd, Nationals

35 km Race Walk (50 / 2:48.00 / 929)

*20. Yukiko Umeno (Juntendo Univ.) - 2:46:53 - 1st, Nationals

29. Masumi Fuchise (Kenso) - 1146 - 3rd, Nationals

32. Maika Yagi (Chiba Kogyo Ginko) - 1094 - 4th, Nationals

Yuki Yoshizumi (Funabashi Seikeigeka) - 1090 - 5th, Nationals

Mao Tatsumi (Takoshige) - 1045 - 6th, Nationals

Sayori Matsumoto (Chiba Kogyo Ginko) - 1007 - 7th, Nationals

Men

100 m (48 / 10.00 / 1219)

19. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Toray) - 9.96 (+0.5) - 4th, Heat 7, Nationals

29. Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) - 9.99 (+1.5) - 1st, Nationals

32. Sorato Shimizu (Seiryo H.S.) - 10.00 (+1.7) - 4th, SF3, Nationals

Yuhi Mori (Daito Bunka Univ.) - 10.00 (+1.3) - 7th, Nationals

Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) - 1250 - DQ, Heat 6, Nationals

200 m (48 / 20.16 / 1196)

*24. Towa Uzawa (JAL) - 20.12 (+0.8) - 1st, Nationals

28. Soshi Mizukubo (Miyazaki T&F Assoc.) - 20.14 (+0.1) - 7th, SF2, Nationals

43. Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) - 1208 - 3rd, Nationals

400 m (48 / 44.85 / 1229)

37. Yuki Joseph Nakajima (Fujitsu) - 44.84 - 4th, Nationals

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Fuga Sato (Mizuno) - 1226 - DQ, Nationals

800 m (56 / 1:44.50 / 1213)

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Ko Ochiai (Komazawa Univ.) - 1210 - 1st, Nationals

1500 m (56 / 3:33.00 / 1217)

55. Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) - Asian Champion - 1st, Nationals

5000 m (42 / 13:01.00 / 1221)

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Nagiya Mori (Honda) - 1214 - 2nd, Nationals

10000 m (27 / 27:00.00 / 1240)

25. Jun Kasai (Asahi Kasei) - 1240 - 2nd, Nationals

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Mebuki Suzuki (Toyota) - 1232 - 1st, Nationals

110 mH (40 / 13.27 / 1222)

*9. Rachid Muratake (JAL) - 13.08 (+1.4) - DNS, Nationals

*17. Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.19 (+0.3) - 1st, Nationals

*19. Shusei Nomoto (Ehime T&F Assoc.) - 13.21 (+0.6) - 2nd, Nationals

400 mH (40 / 48.50 / 1238)

*31. Shunta Inoue (Fujitsu) - 48.46 - 3rd, Nationals

35. Ken Toyoda (Toyota) - 1263 - 7th, Heat 1, Nationals

37. Daiki Ogawa (Toyo Univ.) - 1255 - 1st, Nationals

3000 mSC (36 / 8:15.00 / 1265)

*3. Ryuji Miura (Subaru) - 8:03.43 - DNS, Nationals

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Yutaro Niinae (Aisan Kogyo) - 1229 - 2nd, Nationals

Ryoma Aoki (Honda) - 1220 - 1st, Nationals

High Jump (36 / 2.33 m / 1156)

10. Ryoichi Akamatsu (Seibu Prince) - 1287 - 2nd, Nationals

11. Tomohiro Shinno (Kyudenko) - 1258 - 1st, Nationals

18. Naoto Hasegawa (Niigata Albirex) - 1224 - 3rd, Nationals

Yuto Seko (FAAS) - 1175 - 5th, Nationals

Sota Haraguchi (Juntendo Univ.) - 1169 - 8th, Nationals

Takashi Eto (KDL) - 1163 - 5th, Nationals

Long Jump (36 / 8.27 m / 1194)

24. Keito Yamaura (Katsuura Golf Club) - 1219 - 1st, Nationals

25. Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu) - 1218 - 4th, Nationals

34. Hibiki Tsuha (Otsuka Seiyaku) - 1206 - 5th, Nationals

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Riku Ito (Suzuki) - 1191 - 2nd, Nationals

Hammer Throw (36 / 78.20 m / 1162)

28. Shota Fukuda (Sumitomo Denko) - 1187 - 1st, Nationals

Javelin Throw (36 / 85.50 / 1137)

*9. Yuta Sakiyama (Ehime T&F Assoc.) - 87.16 m - 1st, Nationals

15. Roderick Genki Dean (Mizuno) - 1248 - 2nd, Nationals

35. Rin Suzuki (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 1137 - 11th, Nationals

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Gen Naganuma (Suzuki) - 1136 - 3rd, Nationals

Marathon (100 / 2:06:30 / 1071)

*14. Yuya Yoshida (GMO) - 2:05:16 - 1st, Fukuoka Int'l 2024

*18. Ryota Kondo (Mitsubishi Juko) - 2:05:39 - 2nd, Osaka 2025

* 44. Naoki Koyama (Honda) - 1184 - 3rd, Osaka 2024

20 km Race Walk (50 / 1:19:20 / 1171)

*1. Toshikazu Yamanishi (Aichi Seiko) - 1:16:10 - 1st, Nationals

*2. Satoshi Maruo (Aichi Seiko) - 1:17:24 - 2nd, Nationals

*8. Kento Yoshikawa (Sunbelx) - 1:17:38 - 3rd, Nationals

35 km Race Walk (50 / 2:28:00 / 1119)

*3. Masatora Kawano (Asahi Kasei) - 2:21:47 - 1st, Nationals 2024

*6. Satoshi Maruo (Aichi Seiko) - 2:24:24 - 2nd, Nationals 2025

*7. Hayato Katsuki (SDF Academy) - 2:24:38 - 1st, Nationals 2025

4x100 m Relay (16)

*2. Japan

4x400 m Relay (16)

15. Japan - 2:58.33

Australian Male Arrested on Drug Smuggling Charges After Entering Japan for Osaka Marathon

On Apr. 9 the Kinki Region Bureau of Health, Labor and Welfare's Drug Control Division arrested Matthew Inglis Fox , 38, an Australian business owner of no known fixed address, on charges of violating the importation regulations of the Narcotics Control Act by smuggling tablets containing marijuana elements from the United States. The suspect had entered Japan in February to run in the Osaka Marathon . The suspect was arrested on suspicion of smuggling approximately 12 pills containing marijuana by sending them from a U.S. airport to Osaka's Kansai Airport using an international courier service on Feb. 19. The Osaka branch of the Customs Service discovered the tablets in arriving cargo and suspected them to be narcotics. Customs contacted the Narcotics Control Division, which then began its investigation of the case. According to the Narcotics Control Division, the suspect denies the charges. Translator's note: Fox, who received a lifetime ban from the Ageo City Half Mara...

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