Finals
Girls’s 5000 m Closing
Wakana Kabasawa and Rina Kusu each had a shot at making the Paris Olympics in the event that they completed 2nd behind NR holder Nozomi Tanaka within the low 15:20s, however when the race set off at a jog their probabilities have been just about gone after the primary lap. Having tuned up within the 800 m heats, Tanaka ultimately pulled away for the win in 15:23.72, making certain that she’ll double in Paris. At present thirty sixth of 42 within the Paris quota, Yuma Yamamoto made sufficient of a comeback from harm to take 2nd in 15:34.64 a couple of steps forward of teammate Chikako Mori, just about guaranteeing Yamamoto will probably be in Paris too. However Kusu and Kabasawa have been solely sixth and ninth, neither clearing even 15:40. With Ririka Hironaka injured it seems doubtless Japan will solely have two ladies within the Paris 5000 m.
1. Nozomi Tanaka (New Steadiness) – 15:23.72
2. Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) – 15:34.64
3. Chikako Mori (Sekisui Kagaku) – 15:35.78
4. Rika Kaseda (Daihatsu) – 15:36.59
5. Sora Shinozakura (Panasonic) – 15:40.15
6. Rina Kusu (Sekisui Kagaku) – 15:40.33
7. Miyaka Sugata (Japan Submit) – 15:41.07
8. Rino Goshima (Shiseido) – 15:41.25
9. Wakana Kabasawa (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) – 15:46.52
10. Kazuna Kanetomo (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) – 15:48.05
Males’s Lengthy Bounce Closing
The one Japanese man with the Paris commonplace, Yuki Hashioka sealed it up with the win in 7.95 m (+2.4) on his 2nd try. Not one of the different important contenders, Yuto Toriumi, Hiromichi Yoshida, and Shotaro Shiroyama, made even the highest 12, which means Hashioka would be the solely Japanese male lengthy jumper on the Olympics.
1. Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu) – 7.95 m (+2.4)
2. Hibiki Tsuha (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 7.90 m (+0.5)
3. Natsuki Yamakawa (Group SSP) – 7.84 m (+0.1)
4. Kaito Yamaura (Katsuura Golf Membership) – 7.82 m (+1.3)
5. Riku Shindome (Kokusai Budo Univ.) – 7.81 m (-0.2)
6. Koki Fujiwara (Toyo Univ.) – 7.77 m (+0.4)
7. Shunya Fujiwara (Prepared Rakuin) – 7.68 m (+0.8)
8. Daiki Oda (Yamada Holdings) – 7.68 m (-0.7)
9. Hiroshi Tebira (Kagoshima Wings AC) – 7.63 m (-0.2)
10. Minato Ishikura (NTN) – 7.59 m (+0.6)
Males’s Javelin Throw Closing
Roderick Genki Dean completed third with a 78.15 m throw, and together with his place within the high half of the Paris quota is bound to be in Paris. Ryohei Arai threw a powerful 80.78 m for the win and Yuta Sakiyama 79.72 m for 2nd, however each have been in need of what they wanted to make the highest 32 within the Highway to Paris rankings.
1. Ryohei Arai (Suzuki) – 80.78 m
2. Yuta Sakiyama (Ehime T&F Assoc.) – 79.72 m
3. Roderick Genki Dean (Mizuno) – 78.15 m
4. Kenji Ogura (ASM) – 77.77 m
5. Hiroya Kiyokawa (Tokai Univ.) – 77.61 m
6. Gen Nakanuma (Suzuki) – 76.41 m
7. Rin Suzuki (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) – 76.04 m
8. Ryusei Nakamura (Kokushikan Univ.) – 74.63 m
9. Taisei Aibara (OniGO) – 73.18 m
10. Haruka Higa (Fukumoto Kogyo) – 72.36 m
Males’s Discus Throw Closing
Yuji Tsutsumi defended his 2023 nationwide title with a 60.21 m throw on his third try, his important rivals Masateru Yugami and Shinichi Yukinaga taking 2nd and third however nowhere close to clearing 60 m.
1. Yuji Tsutsumi (Alsok) – 60.12 m
2. Masateru Yugami (Toyota) – 58.51 m
3. Shinichi Yukinaga (Shikoku Univ. AC) – 56.62 m
4. Hiroki Kitahara (Niigata Iryo Fukushi Univ.) – 54.43 m
5. Kosei Yamashita (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) – 54.14 m
6. Kazumasa Yomogida (Kagotani) – 52.74 m
7. Yume Ando (Miharu Kyosei) – 52.12 m
8. Ryoga Tobikawa (Shiga T&F Assoc.) – 51.45 m
9. Masumi Nakamachi (Niigata Iryo Fukushi Univ.) – 50.68 m
10. Taiga Hamaguchi (Nittai Univ.) – 50.48 m
Males’s Pole Vault Closing
Veteran Seito Yamamoto had a great comeback to take the win in 5.50 m, the one one to leap greater than 5.40 m. Yamamoto went straight from there to the 5.82 m Paris commonplace, his solely hope of constructing the Olympic crew, however all three makes an attempt have been a miss.
1. Seito Yamamoto (Toyota) – 5.50 m
2. Shingo Sawa (Kiraboshi Ginko) – 5.40 m
3. Sota Ishimaru (Glanz AC) – 5.40 m
4. Kosei Takekawa (Marumoto Sangyo) – 5.40 m
5. Taishi Yamasaki (Takamatsu T&F Assoc.) – 5.30 m
6. Yosuke Osaki (Nittai AC) – 5.30 m
7. Keisuke Okubo (Sangan T&F Assoc.) – 5.30 m
8. Masaki Ejima (Fujitsu) – 5.30 m
9. Atsushi Haraguchi (Higashi Osaka Univ.) – 5.20 m
10. Tomoya Karasawa (Nittai Univ.) – 5.20 m
10. Koki Kuruma (Striders AC) – 5.20 m
Heats and Semifinals
Males’s 100 m Closing qualifiers
Many of the large names made it by to the ultimate, veterans Yuki Koike and Shota Iizuka each lacking out however everybody else together with former NR holder Yoshihide Kiryu getting by. Favourite Hiroki Yanagita was solely 2nd in his SF in 10.20 (-0.2), properly off high seed Ryuichiro Sakai‘s 10.11 (-0.1).
Ryuichiro Sakai (Osaka Gasoline) – 10.11 (-0.1) – 1st, SF2
Akihiro Higashida (Sekisho) – 10.16 (-0.2) – 1st, SF1
Bruno Dede (Seiko) – 10.18 (+0.1) – 1st, SF3
Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) – 10.20 (-0.2) – 2nd, SF1
Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) – 10.20 (+0.1) – 2nd, SF3
Ryo Wada (Miki Home) – 10.21 (+0.1) – third, SF3
Ryota Suzuki (Suzuki) – 10.22 (-0.1) – 2nd, SF2
Shoma Yamamoto (Hiroshima Univ.) – 10.24 (-0.2) – third, SF1
Girls’s 200 m Closing qualifiers
High-ranked Remi Tsuruta was sooner than 100 m champ Arisa Kirishima within the semis, organising a head-to-head showdown in tomorrow’s closing. However Tsuruta might want to discover one other half second higher than her 23.56 in SF2 as a way to make the Paris quota.
Remi Tsuruta (Minami Kyushu Household Mart) – 23.56 (-0.8) – 1st, SF2
Arisa Kimishima (DKS) – 23.76 (-1.0) – 1st, SF1
Ami Takahashi (Tsukuba Univ.) – 24.11 (-1.0) – 2nd, SF1
Aiko Iki (Osaka Gasoline) – 24.16 (-1.0) – third, SF1
Midori Mikase (Sumitomo Denko) – 24.20 (-1.0) – 4th, SF1
Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) – 24.27 (-0.8) – 2nd, SF2
Shuri Aono (ND Software program) – 24.35 (-1.0) – 1st, SF3
Aoi Sato (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 24.48 (-1.0) – 2nd, SF3
Males’s 400 m Closing qualifiers
forty third of 48 within the Paris quota, Yuki Joseph Nakajima turned within the fastest-ever time in Japanese Nationwide Championships heats, 45.16, to move to the ultimate as the highest qualifier. Relative unknown Takuho Yoshizu dropped a giant PB of 45.57 to win SF1, outrunning Paris-qualified males Kentaro Sato and Fuga Sato. Masato Mori additionally ran a PB of 46.00 to make the ultimate ranked fifth.
Yuki Joseph Nakajima (Fujitsu) – 45.16 – 1st, SF2
Takuho Yoshizu (GK Line) – 45.57 – 1st, SF1 – PB
Kentaro Sato (Fujitsu) – 45.69 – 2nd, SF1
Fuga Sato (Mizuno) – 45.79 – 1st, SF3
Masato Mori (Sunbelx) – 46.00 – 2nd, SF3 – PB
Kaito Kawabata (Chukyo Membership) – 46.10 – third, SF1
Daichi Inoue (Omatsu Unyu) – 46.66 – 4th, SF1
Mizuki Obuchi (Torihei AC) – 46.93 – 2nd, SF2
Males’s 110 mH Closing qualifiers
400 mH winner Ken Toyoda gave the 110 mH a miss, however the already-qualified Rachid Muratake turned in an Olympic commonplace 13.14 (-1.0) in SF1 to tune up for the ultimate. Shusei Nomoto and Shunya Takayama each made it too, organising the potential for 3 Japanese males within the 110 mH in Paris. A possible disrupting issue was Tatsuki Abe, 2nd-fastest within the semis with a 13.40 (-0.9) to win SF2.
Rachid Muratake (JAL) – 13.14 (-1.0) – 1st, SF1
Tatsuki Abe (Juntendo Univ.) – 13.40 (-0.9) – 1st, SF2
Shunya Takayama (Zerrin) – 13.42 (-0.9) – 2nd, SF2
Shusei Nomoto (Ehime T&F Assoc.) – 13.51 (-0.9) – third, SF2
Ryota Fujii (Mie Sports activities Assoc.) – 13.54 (-0.9) – 4th, SF2
Taiga Yokochi (Group SSP) – 13.57 (-0.9) – fifth, SF2
Ryota Machi (Niigata Albirex RC) – 13.61 (-1.0) – 2nd, SF1
Shuhei Ishikawa (Fujitsu) – 13.62 (-1.0) – third, SF1
Girls’s 100 mH Closing qualifiers
The ladies’s 100 mH closing goes to be VERY fascinating. NR holder Mako Fukube, within the weakest place of the three contenders for Paris, knocked the opposite two again with a 12.75 (+0.8) Nationwide Championships meet document in SF1 to hit the Olympic commonplace and transfer as much as the highest Japanese place. Bumped down from thirty ninth to fortieth of 40, Yuma Tanaka fired again with a 12.85 (-0.3) to win SF2, tying the previous MR and setting herself as much as decide up a couple of locations within the Paris quota if she will repeat within the closing. Asuka Terada additionally made it below 13 in SF2 with a 12.98 for 2nd, however with Fukube and Tanaka performing so properly faces a fair steeper climb to get into the highest 40.
Mako Fukube (NKK) – 12.75 (+0.8) – 1st, SF1 – MR
Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu) – 12.85 (-0.3) – 1st, SF2 – MR tie
Asuka Terada (Japan Create) – 12.98 (-0.3) – 2nd, SF2
Yuki Omatsu (CDL) – 13.02 (+0.8) – 2nd, SF1
Hitomi Nakajima (Hasegawa) – 13.08 (+0.8) – third, SF1
Chisato Kiyoyama (Ichigo) – 13.10 (+0.8) – 4th, SF1
Manaka Shibata (Edion) – 13.11 (+0.8) – fifth, SF1
Hitomi Shimura (Rida Japan) – 13.20 (-0.3) – third, SF2
Males’s 800 m Closing qualifiers
However this was the race of the day. See the video up high. 17-year-old Ko Ochiai led start-to-finish in SF1, going by 400 m in 52 and hammering the final 100 m to complete in 1:45.82. That is a H.S. NR, an U20 NR, a Nationwide Championships meet document, and solely 0.07 off the outright Japanese NR. Within the heats. Convey on tomorrow’s closing! Ochiai pulled alongside the subsequent three in his warmth to make the ultimate about two seconds sooner than the winners of the opposite two heats, one in every of which was NR holder Sho Kawamoto. Tomorrow it is simply him vs. himself.
Ko Ochiai (Shiga Gakuen H.S.) – 1:45.82 – 1st, SF1 U20 NR, MR
Yugo Shikata (Takatsuka T&F Assoc.) – 1:46.82 – 2nd, SF1
Hinata Maeda (Kantaiheiyo Univ.) – 1:47.09 – third, SF1 – PB
Ryuto Hayakawa (Smiley) – 1:47.89 – 4th, SF1 – PB
Shuri Sato (Kanoya Taiiku Univ.) – 1:49.29 – 1st, SF3
Sho Kawamoto (Suzuki) – 1:49.53 – 1st, SF2
Yukichi Ishii (Penn State) – 1:49.69 – 2nd, SF2
Sota Okamura (Kanoya Taiiku Univ.) – 1:49.74 – 2nd, SF2
Girls’s 800 m Closing qualifiers
Rin Kubo has been the primary attraction in Japanese ladies’s center distance this season, and together with Ochiai is setting it up for top schoolers to take each 800 m nationwide titles. Her important competitor Ayano Shiomi was solely 0.04 slower in her semi, and interloper Nozomi Tanaka was lower than a second behind in a warmup for the 5000 m, however whereas her win is much less of a positive factor than Ochiai’s it is no less than going to be an awesome race.
Rin Kubo (Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S.) – 2:03.60 – 1st, SF3
Ayano Shiomi (Iwatani Sangyo) – 2:03.64 – 1st, SF2
Ai Watanabe (Sonoda Gakuen Joshi Univ.) – 2:03.99 – 2nd, SF2
Ran Urabe (Sekisui Kagaku) – 2:04.09 – 2nd, SF3
Nozomi Tanaka (New Steadiness) – 2:04.36 – third, SF3
Yuki Hirota (Niigata Albirex RC) – 2:04.43 – third, SF2
Airi Ikezaki (Daiso) – 2:04.93 – 1st, SF1
Ayaka Kawata (Niconiconori) – 2:05.33 – 2nd, SF1
Girls’s 400 mH Closing qualifiers
Chuo College collegian Moe Matsuoka threw some chaos into the anticipated duel between Eri Utsunomiya and Ami Yamamoto, working a PB of 57.25 to beat Utsunomiya by half a second in SF2 and head to the ultimate ranked #1. Yamamoto’s profitable time in SF3 was shut behind Utsunomiya’s.
Moe Matsuoka (Chuo Univ.) – 57.25 – 1st, SF2 – PB
Eri Utsunomiya (Hasegawa) – 57.74 – 2nd, SF2
Ami Yamamoto (Ritsumeikan Univ.) – 57.88 – 1st, SF3
Satsuki Umehara (Sumitomo Denko) – 58.02 – 1st, SF1
Meri Masuko (Chuo Univ.) – 58.11- 2nd, SF1
Hikari Okubo (Enjoyable and Run) – 58.24 – third, SF2 – PB
Akane Minamisawa (Matsumoto Doken) – 58.26 – 2nd, SF3
Mio Tsujii (Osaka Taiiku Univ.) – 58.38 – third, SF3 – PB
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