Nice situations on the second day of Japan’s Nationwide Monitor and Area Championships, U20 Nationwide Championships and Paris Olympics trials helped athletes set new Nationwide Championship meet data within the girls’s pole vault, males’s 400 mH, males’s and ladies’s 1500 m, and males’s 5000 m, with three of the 5 document setters and guaranteeing themselves locations on the Paris Olympics group. Full outcomes right here.
Ladies’s Pole Vault Remaining
Nationwide document holder Misaki Morota cleared her minimal purpose, the win in 4.31 m to attain sufficient factors to maneuver from thirty third to thirty second within the 32-deep Paris Olympic quota. Morota took two makes an attempt to recover from 4.30 m, however on her first strive at a Japanese Nationwide Championships meet document 4.41 m she received it performed. That gave her sufficient factors to maneuver to thirtieth, however it will take clearing 4.50, 2 cm greater than Morota’s NR, to maneuver to twenty ninth. That proved to be out of vary, leaving Morota in good place however nonetheless ready to see the result of different nations’ nationwide championships this weekend.
1. Misaki Morota (At Residence) – 4.41 m – MR
2. Akari Osakaya (Sonoda Gakuen Joshi Univ.) – 4.10 m
3. Sora Murata (Tsukuba Univ.) – 4.10 m
4. Mitsuki Kobayashi (Nittai Univ.) – 4.00 m
4. Minori Shinozaki (Shigakkan Univ.) – 4.00 m – PB
4. Aya Morita (Moon) – 4.00 m
7. Hitose Wakabayashi (Fukuoka Univ.) – 4.00 m – PB
8. Rena Tanaka (Yoshida Sekiyu) – 4.00 m
9. Megumi Dainobu (Nittai SMG) – 3.90 m
9. Rio Sasaki (Nittai Univ.) – 3.90 m
9. Mayu Nasu (Kagotani) – 3.90 m
Males’s 1500 m Remaining
Kazuto Iizawa got here again from a tough fall late in his warmth yesterday to destroy the sector during the last lap with a 3:37.08 meet document, carrying ahead the momentum of his two close to misses on the NR this season. Former NR holder Nanami Arai was 2nd in 3:38.88 and Ryuji Tatezawa Third in 3:38.94, making it a clear sweep of the rostrum by graduates of Tokai College. Underneath head coach Hayashi Morozumi Tokai was the primary main Hakone Ekiden group that began placing a deal with the 1500 m, so no matter might be mentioned concerning the worth of three:37~3:38 on the worldwide degree, this was a payoff for that focus, and progress. Iizawa plans to go for the three:35.42 subsequent month on the Hokuren Distance Problem.
1. Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) – 3:37.08 – CR
2. Nanami Arai (Honda) – 3:38.88
3. Ryuji Tatezawa (DeNA) – 3:38.94
4. Keisuke Morita (Subaru) – 3:38.99
5. Rikuto Iijima (Ami AC) – 3:39.34
6. Nao Kurihara (Josai Univ.) – 3:39.96 – PB
7. Yudai Noguchi (Toenec) – 3:40.35
8. Masato Saiki (Fujisan no Meisui) – 3:40.80
9. Shoma Funatsu (Komori Corp.) – 3:41.86
10. Masaya Yanagimoto (Aisan Kogyo) – 3:42.06 – PB
Males’s 400 mH Remaining
Favourite Ken Toyoda got here by with an enormous 47.99 meet document and PB, locking in his place on the Paris group. However the greater story may need been defending champ Daiki Ogawa, who ran a PB of 48.70 for 2nd, hitting the Paris Olympics qualifying commonplace lifeless on and making Japan one in all solely three nations together with Jamaica and the U.S.A. to have 4 folks with the boys’s 400 mH Olympic commonplace. Third-placer Kaito Tsutsue solely ran 49.08 however already has the usual, that means Japan will probably be sending a full squad to Paris.
1. Ken Toyoda (Keio Univ.) – 47.99 – MR, PB
2. Daiki Ogawa (Toyo Univ.) – 48.70 – PB
3. Kaito Tsutsue (ST-Wako) – 49.08
4. Yusaku Kodama (Nojima T&F Membership) – 49.28
5. Shunta Inoue (Hosei Univ.) – 49.30
6. Haruto Deguchi (Zenrin) – 49.40
7. Masaya Oda (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 49.44
8. Tatsuhiro Yamamoto (Seki AC) – 49.48
Ladies’s 1500 m Remaining
With pacing by 1200 m by Kenyan Hellen Ekarare, NR holder Nozomi Tanaka was pulled alongside to clear the Paris commonplace with a 4:01.44 meet document. Japan-based Mirriam Cherop was the one different athlete to go together with them, fading after 800 m and precisely tying the 4:07.62 she ran on the identical observe final October to win the Yogibo Athletics Problem meet 1500 m. With Cherop not counting in scoring, Ayano Ide and Saki Katagihara ran PBs of 4:11.03 and 4:11.62 for 2nd and Third. Distantly in vary of constructing the Paris quota on rankings, Yume Goto ran solely 4:12.85 for Fifth and missed out.
1. Nozomi Tanaka (New Steadiness) – 4:01.44 – MR
OC – Mirriam Cherop (Shin Nihon Jusetsu) – 4:07.62
2. Ayano Ide (Shiseido) – 4:11.03 – PB
3. Saki Katagihara (Edion) – 4:11.62 – PB
4. Ran Urabe (Sekisui Kagaku) – 4:12.39
5. Yume Goto (Uniqlo) – 4:12.85
6. Haruko Hosaka (Panasonic) – 4:15.09
7. Sherry Drury (Tsuyama H.S.) – 4:18.16
8. Tomoka Kimura (Sekisui Kagaku) – 4:19.77
9. Ai Fujita (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 4:20.38
10. Maki Izumida (Daiichi Seimei) – 4:23.93
Males’s 5000 m Remaining
The race of the weekend up to now. Japan-based Amos Kurgat took it out arduous with a 2:35 first 1000 m that all the subject besides Tokyo Olympian Hiroki Matsueda went with. The subsequent three km every received progressively slower, 10000 m NR holder Kazuya Shiojiri main the pack behind Kurgat with Hyuga Endo shut behind, on observe by 3000 m for the 13:18.27 Endo wanted to interrupt into the Paris quota. Nevertheless it wasn’t Endo’s day, and as others together with Mebuki Suzuki and Takuma Sunaoka challenged Shiojiri for the highest spot Endo dropped away to finally end twenty fourth.
Coming into the again straight at 4300 m Shiojiri appeared to get spiked by another person within the pack, stepped on the rail, then veered straight proper towards the surface of the observe and virtually stopped. That was it for his race as he struggled in to take 18th, however with him out of the image it was a wild battle for the nationwide title. On the bell it was all the way down to Tatsuhiko Ito, his Honda teammate Nagiya Mori, Suzuki, and Masaya Tsurukawa of 2024 Hakone Ekiden champ Aoyama Gakuin College with Kurgat simply forward. Ito was unimaginable, opening 3 seconds on the remainder of them to win in a meet document 13:13.56 that moved him as much as all-time Japanese #7.
Kurgat was subsequent throughout the road with a 13:16.52 PB, Mori taking the official 2nd place with a 13:16.76 PB that put him at all-time #10, Suzuki Third in a PB 13:17.75 and Tsurukawa 4th in 13:18.51, the 2nd-fastest time ever by a Japanese-born collegiate runner. Together with Kurgat, 9 of the highest 10 ran PBs, one other sign that it’s a must to take a look at the place issues are going, not the place they’re. Publish-race Ito mentioned that his subsequent goal is the 1:00:00 NR for the half marathon.
1. Tatsuhiko Ito (Honda) – 13:13.56 – MR, PB
OC – Amos Kurgat (Chudenko) – 13:16.52 – PB
2. Nagiya Mori (Honda) – 13:16.76 – PB
3. Mebuki Suzuki (Toyota) – 13:17.75 – PB
4. Masaya Tsurukawa (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 13:18.51 – PB
5. Takuma Sunaoka (Sumitomo Denko) – 13:20.42
6. Kazuki Tamura (Sumitomo Denko) – 13:21.56 – PB
7. Hideto Kosode (Honda) – 13:22.01 – PB
8. Ayumu Kobayashi (NTT Nishi Nihon) – 13:22.17 – PB
9. Yusuke Tamura (Kurosaki Harima) – 13:23.74 – PB
10. Kiseki Shiozawa (Fujitsu) – 13:29.90
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18. Kazuya Shiojiri (Fujitsu) – 13:38.32
24. Hyuga Endo (Sumitomo Denko) – 13:52.78
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DNF – Hiroki Matsueda (Fujitsu)
Ladies’s 400 m Remaining
No actual surprises right here, as the 2 quickest qualifiers Nanako Matsumoto and Yuna Iwata went 1-2 in 53.46 and 53.64. As anticipated, Third got here all the way down to Abigail Fuka Ido and Shizuho Moriyama, with Ido operating a PB 53.70 to take the final spot on the rostrum.
1. Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) – 53.46
2. Yuna Iwata (Suzuki) – 53.64
3. Abigail Fuka Ido (Toho Ginko) – 53.70 – PB
4. Shizuho Moriyama (Ichigo) – 54.42
5. Yuzuki Nakao (Sonoda Gakuen Joshi Univ.) – 54.47
6. Mayu Inaoka (Kagotani) – 54.48
7. Yuika Mori (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) – 54.67
8. Keiko Iida (Chuo Univ.) – 54.92
Males’s 200 m Remaining +0.2 m/s
Japan’s two highest-ranked males within the Paris quota went 1-2, Towa Uzawa taking the nationwide title in 20.43 (+0.2) and Koki Ueyama subsequent in 20.57. They’re virtually sure to be named to the Olympic group. The opposite man within the quota, 2010 world U20 gold medalist and 3-time Olympian Shota Iizuka, received off to a sluggish begin and spent the 2nd half of the race making an attempt to rise up to high 3. The unranked Soshi Mizukubo beat him there in 20.61, Iizuka touchdown 4th in 20.69. Iizuka continues to be at forty first of 48 within the Paris quota and can most likely be named to the group together with Uzawa and Ueyama, however the remaining phrase on whether or not he has made a fourth Olympics will not come till after the ultimate world rankings replace subsequent week.
1. Towa Uzawa (Tsukuba Univ.) – 20.43
2. Koki Ueyama (Sumitomo Denko) – 20.57
3. Soshi Mizukubo (Miyazaki Sports activities Assoc.) – 20.61
4. Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) – 20.69
5. Shoto Uno (Orico) – 20.76
6. Yudai Nishi (Mint Tokyo) – 20.77
7. Kento Matsui (Kansai Univ.) – 20.88
8. Futo Takasu (Waseda Univ.) – 20.95
Ladies’s 100 m Remaining -0.5 m/s
No surprises right here both, as Arisa Kimishima simply repeated her 2023 win in 11.46 (-0.5). 2nd-fastest within the semifinals, Midori Mikase outran Third-fastest Manaka Miura for 2nd, 11.64 to 11.68.
1. Arisa Kimishima (DKS) – 11.46
2. Midori Mikase (Sumitomo Denko) – 11.64
3. Manaka Miura (Ehime T&F Assoc.) – 11.68
4. Hinami Yamanaka (Shiga T&F Assoc.) – 11.72
5. Kohana Addia Ross (Josai H.S.) – 11.74
6. Yume Okuno (Konan Univ.) – 11.83
7. Aiko Iki (Osaka Fuel) – 11.86
8. Ruho Sato (Hosei Univ.) – 11.96
Ladies’s Javelin Throw Remaining
World champion Haruka Kitaguchi took the win right here however did not appear to be in peak type, 62.87 m on her 2nd try, fouling her subsequent three, then closing with 59.87 m. 2nd and Third-placers Sae Takemoto and Momone Ueda have been each over 60 m, Takemoto’s remaining try of 61.41 m giving Kitaguchi a margin of victory of just one.46 m. Takemoto’s efficiency was sufficient to maneuver her as much as thirty second within the Paris quota, and if she survives the ultimate rankings replace she’ll be part of Kitaguchi and Ueda on the Olympic group. If not, Fifth-placer Marina Saito is the #2-ranked Japanese girl and like Iizuka within the males’s 200 m will most likely be on the group even with out a high 3 putting on the trials.
1. Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) – 62.87 m
2. Sae Takemoto (Group SSP) – 61.41 m
3. Momone Ueda (Zenrin) – 60.72 m
4. Yuki Yamamoto (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) – 59.57 m – PB
5. Marina Saito (Suzuki) – 56.60 m
6. Aoi Murakami (Nittai Univ.) – 56.27 m
7. Mahiro Osa (Kokushikan Membership) – 55.25 m
8. Kiho Kuze (Kondotech) – 55.19 m
9. Kana Shinoda (Kyoto Univ.) – 54.88 m
10. Sayuka Kurata (Keio Univ.) – 53.83 m
Ladies’s Triple Bounce Remaining
NR holder Mariko Morimoto received the job performed, handing over a season finest 13.64 m (+0.2) bounce on her Fifth try that went well past the 13.37 m win she wanted to enhance her Paris quota place. 13.64 m introduced her rating as much as 1203, sufficient to maneuver up two locations to twenty first of 32. #3-ranked Japanese girl Akari Funada got here by with a 13.42 m (+0.4) bounce for 2nd on her Fifth try.
1. Mariko Morimoto (Orico) – 13.64 m (+0.2)
2. Akari Funada (Mukogawa Joshi Univ.) – 13.42 m (+0.4)
3. Moeno Saito (Dawn) – 12.72 m (+0.2)
4. Misato Osaki (Seven) – 12.69 m (+0.2)
5. Haruka Saito (Raffine) – 12.69 m (+0.2)
6. Hazuki Otsuka (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 12.64 m (-0.2)
7. Sakura Miyahata (Seven) – 12.64 m (-0.9)
8. Hanon Kodera (Daitex) – 12.63 m (0.0)
9. Wakana Kamoshita (Mainswork) – 12.52 m (+0.1)
10. Momona Hirose (Sonoda Gakuen Joshi Univ.) – 12.50 m (-0.4)
Ladies’s Discus Throw Remaining
NR holder Nanaka Kori pulled out a 58.20 m throw on her Third try, her finest since 2022, to down final 12 months’s nationwide champ Maki Saito for the win. Saito closed with a 56.77 m throw for 2nd, with Akane Kawaguchi taking Third at 52.68 m.
1. Nanaka Kori (Niigata Albirex RC) – 58.20 m
2. Maki Saito (Tokai Univ.) – 56.77 m
3. Akane Kawaguchi (Wigas) – 52.68 m
4. Minori Tsujikawa (Uchida Toko AC) – 51.98 m
5. Mika Yamamoto (Kondotech) – 48.77 m
6. Ranna Nishiyama (Tsukuba Univ.) – 47.07 m
7. Natsumi Fujimori (STAC) – 46.59 m
8. Ayane Nakase (Kyokuto Yugyo) – 46.26 m
9. Hazuki Fujita (Tokushima Univ.) – 43.80 m
10. Mai Shimizu (Shiga T&F Assoc.) – 43.80 m
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