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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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