Nagoya Asian Games Team Announced

Following this past weekend's National Championships, the JAAF has announced the complete lineup of 41 women and 45 men for September's Nagoya Asian Games national team. Times listed are athletes' 2025-26 best.

Women

100 m

Midori Mikase (Sumitomo Denko) - 11.33

Abigail Fuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 11.35

200 m

Abigail Fuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 22.79

Aiko Iki (Osaka Gas) - 23.41

400 m

Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) - 52.14

800 m

Rin Kubo (Sekisui Kagaku) - 1:59.52

Ayano Shiomi (Iwatani Sangyo) - 2:01.01

1500 m

Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 4:04.16

Mizuki Michishita (Sekisui Kagaku) - 4:10.48

5000 m

Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 14:34.10

Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 14;59.89

10000 m

Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 30:54.40

Ririka Hironaka (Uniqlo) - 30:56.32

100 mH

Hitomi Nakajima (Hasegawa) - 12.71

Mako Fukube (NKK) - 12.72

400 mH

Honoka Aoki (Zenrin) - 55.92

Satsuki Umehara (Sumitomo Denko) - 56.22

3000 mSC

Miu Saito (Panasonic) - 9:24.72

Manami Nishiyama (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 9:40.85

High Jump

Nagisa Takahashi (Senko) - 1.92 m

Yuzuki Ishioka (Nihon Joshi Taiiku Univ. AC) - 1.86 m

Pole Vault

Misaki Morota (At Home) - 4.50 m

Akari Osakaya (Ehime T&F) - 4.25 m

Long Jump

Ayaka Kora (JAL) - 6.48 m

Sumire Hata (Sumitomo Denko) - 6.47 m

Triple Jump

Akari Funada (Niconiconori) - 13.87 m

Discus Throw

Nanaka Kori (Niconiconori) - 59.23 m

Hammer Throw

Raika Murakami (Zenrin) - 68.18 m

Joy McArthur (USC) - 67.76 m

Javelin Throw

Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) - 64.63 m

Sae Takemoto (Orico) - 61.74 m

Half Marathon RW

Ayane Yanai (Fujitsu) - 1:35:57

Ayumi Sugibayashi (Osaka Univ.) - 1:39:43

Marathon RW

Yukiko Umeno (Locok) - 3:33:47

Maika Yagi (Chiba Kogyo Ginko) - 3:36:06

Marathon

Mikuni Yada (Edion) - 2:19:57

Sayaka Sato (Sekisui Kagaku) - 2:20:59

Heptathlon

Yuri Tanaka (Suzuki) - 60:50

Nanaka Kajiki (Nojima T&F) - 5693

4x100 m Relay

Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko) - 11.42

Manaka Miura (Ehime T&F) - 11.42

4x400m Relay

Aoi Teramoto (At Home) - 53.14

Shizuho Moriyama (Ichigo) - 53.17

Yuzuki Nakao (Sonoda Gakuen Univ.) - 53.20

Men

100 m

Yuki Koike (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.06

Shuhei Tada (Sumitomo Denko) - 10.10

200 m

Soshi Mizukubo (Miyazaki T&F) - 20.07

Towa Uzawa (JAL) - 20.11

400 m

Yuki Joseph Nakajima (Fujitsu) - 44.44

Shinya Hayashi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 44.98

800 m

Ko Ochiai (Komazawa Univ.) - 1:43.45

Nanaki Manno (Kansai Univ.) - 1:45.31

1500 m

Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 3:35.90

Nagiya Mori (Honda) - 3:36.53

5000 m

Nagiya Mori (Honda) - 13:14.18

Tomonori Yamaguchi (SGH) - 13:16.38

10000 m

Mebuki Suzuki (Toyota) - 27:05.92

Yamato Yoshii (Toyota) - 27:21.45

100 mH

Rachid Muratake (JAL) - 12.92

Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.13

400 mH

Taiju Goto (Rakunan H.S.) - 48.09

Kazuki Kurokawa (Sumitomo Denko) - 48.35

3000 mSC

Ryuji Miura (Subaru) - 8:03.43

Ryoma Aoki (Honda) - 8:18.63

High Jump

Ryuichi Akamatsu (Seibu Prince) - 2.31 m

Hirokazu Sakai (Senko) - 2.25 m

Pole Vault

Masaki Ejima (Fujitsu) - 5.70 m

Tomoya Karasawa (Higashi Nihon Mitsubishi) - 5.66 m

Long Jump

Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu) - 8.22 m

Riku Ito (Suzuki) - 8.11 m

Triple Jump

Manato Miyao (Toyo Univ.) - 16.64 m

Discus Throw

Masateru Yugami (Toyota) - 65.38 m

Yuji Tsutsumi (Alsok) - 61.76 m

Hammer Throw

Shota Fukuda (Sumitomo Denko) - 74.57 m

Tatsuro Nakagawa (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) - 73.93 m

Javelin Throw

Yuta Sakiyama (Yamada Holdings) - 87.16 m

Rin Suzuki (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 81.23 m

Half Marathon RW

Toshikazu Yamanishi (Aichi Seiko) - 1:20:34

Kento Yoshikawa (Yokohama T&F) - 1:20:50

Marathon RW

Hayato Katsuki (SDF Academy) - 2:55:28

Motofumi Suwa (Aichi Seiko) - 2:58:21

Marathon

Ichitaka Yamashita (Mitsubishi Juko) - 2:06:18

Yuya Yoshida (GMO) - 2:06:59

Decathlon

Yuma Maruyama (Sumitomo Denko) - 8321

Keisuke Okuda (With Us) - 8008

4x100 m Relay

Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) - 9.99

Fukuto Komuro (Chuo Univ.) - 10.07

4x400m Relay

Fuga Sato (Mizuno) - 45.10

Kenki Imaizumi (Uchida Yoko AC) - 45.29

Kentaro Shirahata (Toyo Univ.) - 45.30

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