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Weekend Observe Roundup

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This was the final weekend the place Japanese athletes may flip in qualifying marks for the June 27-30 Nationwide Championships and Olympic Trials in Niigata forward of the June 5 deadline. For center and lengthy distance the massive meet was the Nittaidai Problem Video games, aka the Nittai College Time Trials, Saturday and Sunday in Yokohama.

In a bid to agency up her world rankings rating sufficient to get into the Kenyan Olympic Trials, Mirriam Cherop (Shin Nihon Jusetsu) took the primary fundamental race Saturday, successful the ladies’s 1500 m quick warmth in 4:13.49 after a 61-second first lap. Airi Tajima (Juntendo Univ.) was 2nd with a PB 4:19.02 and Runa Shoji (Kantaiheiyo Univ.) Third in 4:20.55, each clearing the 4:21.50 Trials commonplace.

The highest 9 within the males’s 1500 m quick warmth have been all underneath the three:45.00 commonplace, led by Yudai Noguchi (Toenec) in 3:42.18 in a photograph end with Nao Kurihara (Josai Univ.) Nationwide file holder Kazuki Kawamura (Toenec) was 4th in 3:43.62. With a goal variety of 30 it is seemingly it will take one thing underneath 3:44 to truly make the beginning line on the Trials.

Together with Cherop, Kenyans took the ladies’s 3000 m and 5000 m quick heats. Newcomer Deborah Chemutai (Common Leisure) was quickest within the 3000 m in 9:09.82, with veteran Hellen Ekarare (Toyota Jidoshokki) soloing a 15:26.86 to win the 5000 m. No Japanese ladies cleared the 15:40.00 Trials commonplace.

Within the final fundamental race Saturday, Anthony Maina (Toyota Kyushu) led the highest 5 underneath 27:44.00 within the males’s 10000 m quick warmth, successful in 27:41.20 forward of Jonathan Ndiku (YKK), Andrew Lorot (YKK), Waweru Nganga (Chugoku Denryoku) and Cosmas Mwangi (Chugoku Denryoku). Shunta Uchida (Toyota) was the highest Japanese man at 28:31.55.

Sunday was all concerning the males’s 5000 m, with 17 heats run from mid-afternoon by means of night. On-and-off rain, generally heavy, meant a variety of situations relying on when individuals ran. 1st-year Brian Kiptoo (Reitaku Univ.) received the primary of the 2 quick heats in 13:24.15, his senior teammate David Shunqeya Third in 13:29.18. In 2nd, Third and fifth, Masaya Tsurukawa (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.), Ryuto Igawa (Asahi Kasei) and Asahi Kuroda (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) all cleared 13:30 for the primary time. Raphael Dapash (JR Higashi Nihon) took the 2nd quick warmth in 13:27.85, with each Ayumu Kobayashi (NTT Nishi Nihon) and Shunya Kikuchi (Chugoku Denryoku) getting underneath 13:30, Kikuchi for the primary time.

That brings the variety of Japanese males who’ve damaged 13:30 because the Trials window opened on Jan. 1, 2023 to 31 in meets on the World Athletics calendar. The 5000 m qualifying time for the Olympic Trials was set at 13:36.00, nevertheless it exhibits how shortly issues are progressing that there is a likelihood all 30 individuals on the beginning line later this month could have instances underneath 13:30. That is one thing solely Kenya and the United States may match.

Most company league areas had their regional championship meets within the first half of Could, however for no matter cause the Kansai Area moved its meet two weeks later to this weekend. Noteworthy performances included:
  • Yugo Shikata (4Directions) set a meet file 1:50.31 within the males’s 800 m.
  • Kotaro Kondo (SGH), Yuto Akahoshi (Otsuka Seiyaku), Kazuto Kawabata (SGH) and Tsuyoshi Bando (Osaka Fuel) all went underneath the boys’s 10000 m MR, AGU grad Kondo getting the win in 28:05.55.
  • Shinichi Yukinaga (Shikoku Univ.) threw 57.91 m within the males’s discus, beating his personal MR by virtually 2.5 m.
  • Mayu Inaoka (Kagotani), Kina Matsuo (Tremendous Fresco) and Ayaka Kawata (Niconiconori) broke the ladies’s 400 m MR, Inaoka working over a second underneath the file she set 4 years in the past with a 54.08 for the win.
  • Kawata additionally broke the 800 m MR, taking virtually one second off the 1988-era MR held by Bunko Arai in 2:05.77 and beating runner-up Ayu Koyama (Iwatani Sangyo) by virtually 3.5 seconds.
  • Marathoner Rika Kaseda (Daihatsu) did the gap double, successful the ladies’s 10000 m in 32:33.88 on Friday and coming again Sunday to take the 5000 m in 15:44.16. Holding off on plans to retire, her teammate Mizuki Matsuda was 2nd in 32:44.42.
  • The meet data additionally went within the ladies’s 400 mH, Satsuki Umehara (Sumitomo Denko) taking the win in 58.01 and Karen Yokota (Kagotani) additionally underneath the file in 58.38 for 2nd.
On the Fuse Dash meet the largest draw was the boys’s 100 m, the place Ryota Suzuki (Suzuki) took the win in 10.06 (+2.8) and Shoma Yamamoto (Hiroshima Univ.) 2nd in 10.08. Former NR holder Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) was solely seventh in 10.19. In different outcomes:
  • China‘s Zhuoyi Xu and Weibo Qin went 1-2 within the males’s 110 mH, Xu setting a meet file 13.22 (+1.3).
  • Arisa Kimishima (DKS) received the ladies’s 100 m in 11.45 (+0.7).
  • NR holder Mako Fukube (NKK) took the ladies’s 100 mH in 12.99 (+1.9) by 0.01 over Hitomi Shimura (Rita Japan), whose 13.00 was a PB by 0.02 over the previous greatest she had set approach again in 2013.
Abroad, Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) received the boys’s 200 m on the Taiwan Athletics Open in a 20.65 (+0.0) MR. Koki Ueyama (Sumitomo Denko) was 2nd in 20.81.
  • Daiki Ogawa and Yusaku Kodama additionally went 1-2 within the males’s 400 mH, Ogawa getting the win in 49.43 and Kodama subsequent in 49.44.
  • One other win went to Ryoichi Akamatsu within the males’s excessive leap, each he and Third-placer Takashi Eto clearing 2.25 m. Yuto Seko was fifth at 2.22 m. Each Akamatsu and Seko are at present within the Paris Olympics quota and might want to make prime 3 on the Trials to be named to the Paris crew.
  • Hibiki Tsuha and Yuto Toriumi went 2nd and 4th within the males’s lengthy leap in heavy rain, Tsuha 1 cm off the win at 7.52 m (+0.6) and Toriumi 3 cm off the rostrum at 7.41 m (+0.8).
  • Ryota Kashimura broke the boys’s hammer throw MR in 72.57 m however was outclassed by Canada‘s Ethan Katzberg, who received with a giant 80.04 m throw. Shota Fukuda was Third at 71.67 m.
  • In ladies’s occasions, Ayano Shiomi was 2nd within the 800 m with a 2:05.99 NR, 0.25 behind winner Dissanayake Mudiyanselage of Sri Lanka.
  • NR holder Sumire Hata was 2nd within the lengthy leap at 6.37 m (+0.6), Nanaya James of India getting the win in 6.43 m (+0.6). Japan’s Ayaka Kora was 4th at 6.06 m (+0.0).
  • Sara Fujimoto and Miharu Kodate have been 4th and fifth within the ladies’s hammer throw at 62.30 m and 61.86 m. Winner Lauren Bruce of New Zealand threw a MR 67.30 m for the win.
Elsewhere, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown had a very good one within the Oslo Diamond League males’s 100 m, working a SB 9.99 (+0.4) for 2nd, and adopted that up with a ten.28 (-1.0) for fifth on the Stockholm Diamond League meet. Nozomi Tanaka additionally doubled in Oslo and Stockholm, taking tenth within the Oslo 3000 m and shaving one other fraction off her personal NR in 8:34.09, and ninth within the Stockholm 1500 m with a 4:02.98 SB, simply lacking the 4:02.50 Olympic commonplace. Ayano Ikeuchi was additionally in Stockholm, taking eighth in Saturday’s Stockholm Marathon in 2:41:56.
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