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Goto Breaks 400 mH U18 WR - National Championships Day Two Highlights


The performance of the 2nd day of Japan's 110th National Track and Field Championships came c/o the latest monster to come out of Kyoto's Rakunan H.S., 400 m hurdler Taiju Goto. In the opening round heats Goto, who turned 17 last month, closed hard to win his heat in 48.31, a PB by nearly a second and the fastest-ever U18 time anywhere in the world. And at only 0.42 off the senior NR held by the great Dai Tamesue, there's a lot of optimism for more in the final and the rest of the season.


Another great performance came in the men's 200 m heats, where Soshi Mizukubo moved up to all-time #2 on the Japanese lists with a 20.07 (+0.5) PB to win Heat 3, 0.04 off another antique NR held by another legend, Shingo Suetsugu. By comparison the 100 m seemed pretty tame, with veteran Shuhei Tada scoring his first national title in 5 years in only 10.17 (+0.1) in what seems like an off-year for the event in Japan. After leading the women's 200 m heats in 23.01 (+0.1) Abigail Fuuka Ido won the women's 100 m for the 2nd year in a row in 11.44 (-0.1), and Hitomi Nakajima scored her first 100 mH national title in 12.77 (+0.6).


The other performance of the day was in the women's hammer throw, where Raika Murakami threw a meet record 68.18 m on her final attempt, beating out Joy McArthur for the win. Yuta Sakayama had a great win in the men's javelin throw too, throwing 82.05 m on his last attempt and moving up from 4th to 1st as the only athlete to go over 80 m.


An honorable mention goes to the women's 800 m, where Ayano Shiomi came back from dropping the 2nd-fastest time of her career, 2:01.82, in the heats, to face NR holder Rin Kubo in the final. Shiomi hammered it again and delivered another career 2nd-best, 2:01.67, but it wasn't enough. Kubo squeezed by in the final meters to take the win in 2:01.54 in her first season as a pro. Nanaki Manno took the men's title in 1:46.45, with the domestically unbeatable Kazuto Iizawa taking the men's 1500 m in 3:40.11 with a brilliant last lap.

110th National Track and Field Championships

Day Two Highlights
Paloma Mizuho Stadium, Nagoya, 13 June

1. Abigail Fuuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 11.44
2. Midori Mikase (Sumitomo Denko) - 11.50
3. Arisa Kimishima (DSK) - 11.52
4. Manaka Miura (Ehime T&F) - 11.60
5. Aiko Iki (Osaka Gas) - 11.65
6. Aiha Yamagata (Fukuoka Univ.) - 11.66
7. Sakura Maeda (Fukuoka Univ.) - 11.66
8. Akiha Kobari (Surugadai Univ.) - 21.86

1. Shuhei Tada (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.17
2. Naoki Nishioka (Tsukuba Univ.) - 10.20
3. Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) - 10.24
4. Shoma Yamamoto (Hiroshima Univ.) - 10.25
5. Fukuto Komuro (Chuo Univ.) - 10.26
6. Ryunosuke Mizuno (Waseda Univ.) - 10.26
7. Yoshiki Kinashi (Eternal Wellness) - 10.32
8. Sota Miwa (Koizumi) - 10.35

1. Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) - 52.94
2. Shizuha Moriyama (Ichigo) - 53.42
3. Yuzuki Nakao (Sonoda Gakuen Univ.) - 53.58
4. Yuna Iwata (Suzuki) - 53.80
5. Yuzuki Kojima (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 53.98
6. Akari Saito (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 54.74
7. Aoi Teramoto (At Home) - 54.91
8. Harumi Kumagae (Aomori T&F) - 55.07

1. Rin Kubo (Sekisui Kagaku) - 2:01.54
2. Ayano Shiomi (Iwatani Sangyo) - 2:01.67
3. Kurumi Sugure (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2:03.77
4. Suzuka Watanabe (Iwatani Sangyo) - 2:06.07
5. Airi Ikezaki (Daiso) - 2:07.12
6. Ichigo Nomura (More) - 2:07.92
7. Sarina Hillier (Warabeya) - 2:08.21
8. Mahiro Hasegawa (Iwatani Sangyo) - 2:15.77

1. Nanaki Manno (Kansai Univ.) - 1:46.45
2. Yugo Shikata (4 Directions) - 1:46.68
3. Hiroki Minamoto (NTN) - 1:46.72
4. Sho Tanabe (Chuo Univ.) - 1:46.79
5. Sota Okamura (Kanoya Taiiku Univ.) - 1:47.22
6. Mikuto Kaneko (Arcyell) - 1:47.50
7. Shuta Azuma (Fujisan GX) - 1:48.13
8. Kairu Yamaga (Ikuei Univ.) - 1:51.76

1. Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 3:40.11
2. Ojiro Honda (Waseda Univ.) - 3:40.49
3. Juda Hyodo (Honda) - 3:40.51
4. Tomoki Nakano (Toenec) - 3:40.52
5. Takumi Nakagawa (Juntendo Univ.) - 3:40.92
6. Kizuki Ushiroda (Juntendo Univ.) - 3:41.62
7. Keisuke Morita (Subaru) - 3:41.65
8. Takayoshi Oba (Josai Univ.) - 3:42.31
9. Koki Terada (Chuo Univ.) - 3:43.17
10. Takumi Shiobara (Fujisan GX) - 3:46.58
11. Ryo Higuchi (Univ. of Kansas) - 3:48.17
12. Ryoto Aoki (Rikkyo Univ.) - 3:50.95

1. Hitomi Nakajima (Hasegawa) - 12.77
2. Mako Fukube (NKK) - 12.83
3. Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko) - 12.86
4. Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu) - 12.91
5. Yuki Omatsu (CDL) - 13.08
6. Shu Muraoka (NSD) - 13.14
7. Chisato Kiyoyama (Ichigo) - 13.21
8. Mao Shimano (Watanabe Pipe) - 13.25

1. Nagisa Takahashi (Senko) - 1.86 m
2. Sheriai Tsuda (Tsukiji Gindako) - 1.83 m
3. Yuzuki Ishioka (Nihon Joshi Taiiku Univ. AC) - 1.80 m

1. Tomoya Karasawa (Higashi Nihon Mitsubishi) - 5.50 m
2. Naoya Inoue (Nittai Univ.) - 5.50 m
3. Atsushi Haraguchi (Osaka Keizai Univ.) - 5.50 m

1. Sumire Hata (Sumitomo Denko) - 6.39 m (+0.5)
2. Ion Kondo (Nihon Univ.) - 6.29 m (-0.3)
3. Ria Kitada (Mainswork) - 6.13 m (-0.3)

1. Raika Murakami (Zenrin) - 68.18 m - MR
2. Joy McArthur (USC) - 64.14 m
3. Mimi Shimamoto (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 61.10 m

1. Tatsuto Nakagawa (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) - 73.93 m
2. Shota Fukuda (Sumitomo Denko) - 72.77 m
3. Ryota Kashimura (Yamada Holdings) - 70.26 m

1. Yuta Sakiyama (Yamada Holdings) - 82.05 m
2. Yusaku Iwao (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) - 79.13 m
3. Hiroya Kiyokawa (Tokai Univ.) - 78.53 m

Abigail Fuuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 23.01 (+0.1) - 1st, H2
Ami Takahashi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 23.55 (-1.5) - 1st, H1
Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) - 23.55 (-1.5) - 2nd, H1
Remi Tsuruta (MKFM) - 23.55 (-0.4) - 1st, H3
Aoi Sato (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 23.63 (-0.4) - 2nd, H3
Aiko Iki (Osaka Gas) - 23.90 (+0.1) - 2nd, H2
Shuri Aono (ND Software) - 23.91 (-1.5) - 3rd, H1
Aiha Yamagata (Fukuoka Univ.) - 24.03 (+0.1) - 3rd, H2

Soshi Mizukubo (Miyakawa Sports) - 20.07 (+0.5) - 1st, H3
Akira Hayashi (Keio Univ.) - 20.36 (+0.5) - 2nd, H3
Tomoru Funaki (Daito Bunka Univ.) - 20.39 (+0.5) - 3rd, H3
Yuji Orisa (GK Line) - 20.56 (+0.8) - 1st, H2
Sota Miwa (Koizumi) - 20.62 (+0.5) - 4th, H3
Hiroki Shigetani (Green Cross) - 20.64 (+0.8) - 2nd, H2
Ryotaro Hama (Hosei Univ.) - 20.68 (-0.2) - 1st, H1
Mitsuhiro Numata (Legalis) - 20.69 (-0.2) - 2nd, H1

Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 4:06.43 - 1st, H2
Mizuki Michishita (Sekisui Kagaku) - 4:15.70 - 2nd, H2
Yua Nagamori (Sendai Ikuei H.S.) - 4:15.82 - 3rd, H2
Jerusha Yuri Mayaka (Otsuka Seiyaku) - 4:15.86 - 4th, H2
Mahiro Hasegawa (Iwatani Sangyo) - 4:16.03 - 5th, H2
Ayu Henmi (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 4:16.13 - 6th, H2
Airi Tajima (Juntendo Univ.) - 4:17.80 - 1st, H1
Miori Kida (Juntendo Univ.) - 4:17.89 - 2nd, H1
Mana Aiba (Daito Bunka Univ.) - 4:18.02 - 3rd, H1
Wakana Kabasawa (Mitsui Sumitomo Denko) - 4:18.09 - 4th, H1
Iroha Kodama (Iwatani Sangyo) - 4:18.45 - 5th, H1
Chikako Mori (Sekisui Kagaku) - 4:19.81 - 6th, h1

Tatsuki Abe (Enteral Hospitality) - 13.18 (+1.1) - 1st, SF2
Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.25 (+1.1) - 2nd, SF2
Taiga Yokochi (Digiverse) - 13.48 (+1.0) - 1st, SF1
Ryota Fujii (Tottori Sports) - 13.58 (+1.1) - 3rd, SF2
Aoba Oguchi (Hosei Univ.) - 13.61 (+1.0) - 2nd, SF1
Hayato Higuchi (Tsukuba TP) - 13.62 (+1.0) - 3rd, SF1
Ryo Tokuoka (Kagotani) - 13.71 (+1.1) - 4th, SF2
Hiroto Miyamoto (Juntendo Univ.) - 13.75 m (+1.1) - 5th, SF2

Honoka Aoki (Zenrin) - 56.49 - 1st, H3
Satsuki Umehara (Sumitomo Denko) - 56.92 - 1st, H2
Moe Matsuoka (Suzuki) - 56.93 - 2nd, H2
Rene Shinto (Vida) - 56.94 - 3rd, H2
Rachel Mayu Gardner (Waseda Univ.) - 56.99 - 2nd, H3
Meri Masuko (Hasegawa) - 57.38 - 3rd, H3
Akane Minamisawa (MDK) - 57.73 - 1st, H1
Ruru Hiraki (Osaka Seikei Univ.) - 57.79 - 2nd, H1

Taiju Goto (Rakunan H.S.) - 48.31 - U18 WR - 1st, H2
Yusaku Kodama (Nojima T&F) - 48.84 - 2nd, H2
Hiromu Yamauchi (Toho Ginko) - 49.02 - 3rd, H2
Kaito Tsutsue (ST-Wako) - 49.09 - 1st, H3
Ken Toyoda (Toyota) - 49.11 - 4th, H2
Masaya Oda (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 49.13 - 2nd, H3
Kazuki Kurokawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 49.42 - 1st, H1
Shunta Inoue (Fujitsu) - 49.46 - 2nd, H1

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