Hatase Sets Shot Put National Record, Murayama Over Osako on Last Day of National Track and Field Championships
by Brett Larner click here for Day One and Day Two results photo by rikujolove , videos by 陸上競技動画集 and naoki620 Eight more athletes scored places on the Japanese team for August's Beijing World Championships on the last day of the National Track and Field Championships , and despite high winds and rain three records fell. Satoshi Hatase (Gunma Alsok) set a men's shot put national record of 18.78 m, Ryohei Arai (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) following him with a meet record 84.13 m throw in the men's javelin that secured his place in Beijing. Women's 3000 mSC junior national record holder Anju Takamizawa (Matsuyama Univ.) took more than 5 seconds off her own record with a new junior NR of 9:55.79 for the win. Both the women's and men's 5000 m featured great races. In the women's 5000, 2-time defending national champion Misaki Onishi (Team Sekisui Kagaku) showed some uppage in her game by running down talented new young gun Azusa Sumi (Team Univ....