Getting caught within the shinkansen cancelation complications yesterday means we’re a day late attending to the weekend’s observe roundup, however higher late than by no means. On the prime of the record, girls’s 100 mH nationwide file holder Mako Fukube (NKK) took 0.04 off her personal file to win in 12.69 (+1.2) on the All-Star Night time Video games in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa in her final race earlier than the Paris Olympics. Different Paris group members gained their races too:
4×400 m squad member Takuho Yoshizu (GK Line) took the win within the males’s 400 m in 45.89.
Males’s 400 m hurdler Daiki Ogawa (Toyo Univ.) set a meet file 49.09 for the win.
Sumire Hata (Sumitomo Denko) set a girls’s lengthy bounce MR of 6.61 m (+0.8).
Marina Saito (Suzuki) and Momone Ueda (Zenrin) each threw over the outdated MR held by world champion and Paris teammate Haruka Kitaguchi, Saito getting the win with a ultimate try of 58.45 m, Ueda subsequent at 57.93 m and Third-placer Yuki Yamamoto (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) additionally going over the outdated MR at 57.89 m.
Kitaguchi was abroad on the London Diamond League meet, the place she was solely 4th at 62.69 m after profitable final week’s Monaco Diamond League with a season greatest 65.21 m throw. Australian Mackenzie Little gained in London with a PB 66.27 m first try. The Japanese males’s 4×100 m group of Ryuichiro Sakai, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu and Koki Ueyama was additionally in London with a 38.07 SB tuneup for the win regardless of a sloppy first change the place Yanagita began a fraction too early.
After choosing up a roll down spot within the girls’s 1500 m, Yume Goto (Uniqlo) was in L.A. for her Paris tuneup, taking 4th within the Sundown Tour B-heat in 4:13.83. Non-Olympic group Japanese athletes within the meet included Ai Watanabe, seventh within the girls’s 800 m B-heat in 2:03.99, Shintaro Nakazono, twelfth within the males’s 3000 mSC in 8:57.23, and Sodai Shimizu and Kazuki Tamura within the males’s 5000 m, Shimizu operating 13:47.07 for sixth and Tamura 14:21.82 for twelfth.
After a 13.16 SB for Third on the Paris Diamond League meet and a DNF after falling on the Monaco Diamond League, Japan breathed a sigh of aid as Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) gained Tokyo’s Twilight Video games males’s 110 mH with a SB and MR 13.10 (+1.6). It was too scorching for 800 m nationwide champion Ko Ochiai (Shiga Gakuen H.S.) to take a severe shot on the 1:45.75 NR that he missed by solely 0.07 finally month’s Nationals, however Ochiai nonetheless gained simply in 1:48.28.
The final two Hokuren Distance Problem meets of the season additionally occurred in Hokkaido. In Fukagawa, Agnes Mwikali (Kyocera) ran a PB 31:06.89 to win the ladies’s 10000 m, runner-up Shiho Tachizako (Tenmaya) operating an enormous PB of 32:16.31 however nonetheless ending 70 seconds behind. Hellen Ekarare (Toyota Jidoshokki) rolled on in what’s been a shocking breakthrough season, soloing a 15:00.92 PB within the girls’s 5000 m A-heat and nearly lapping 2nd-placer Kotone Hoshina (Route Inn Motels). Diana Cherotich (Higo Ginko) additionally had a dominant win within the girls’s 3000 m, operating a 22-second PB of 8:56.04 to win by 21 seconds over Momoka Kawaguchi (Uniqlo).
Jonathan Ndiku (YKK) gained the boys’s 10000 m A-heat in 27:50.38, and Samuel Kibathi (Toyota) took the boys’s 5000 m A-heat in 13:16.97. Additionally within the 5000 m, 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura (Subaru) ran 13:31.61 with a sub-60 final lap for sixth and prime Japanese in his final race earlier than Paris.
It was too scorching on the Chitose HDC meet for the height occasions lots of athletes have been aiming for, however some nonetheless pulled it off. 5000 m Paris Olympian Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) doubled with a 4:20.32 for 4th within the girls’s 1500 m A-heat, then a win within the 3000 m in 9:07.49. Males’s 3000 mSC Olympic group member Ryoma Aoki (Honda) did the identical, operating a PB 3:40.83 for Third within the 1500 m A-heat after which the primary 3000 m of the 5000 m A-heat, going sub-8 within the prime Japanese spot.
Emmanuel Kipchirchir (SGH) gained the 5000 m in 13:14.21, with the boys’s efficiency of the day going to Komazawa College captain Kotaro Shinohara, who unfavourable break up a 13:27.04 PB for prime Japanese at 4th. The ladies’s efficiency of the day went to Agnes Mwikali (Kyocera), who soloed a 14:49.21 PB to with the ladies’s 5000 m A-heat. Caroline Kariba (Japan Publish) additionally acquired underneath 15:00 for the primary time, taking 2nd in 14:57.05. Ayano Shiomi (Iwatani Sangyo) minimize nearly a second off her PB within the girls’s 800 m A-heat, profitable in 2:01.93 to maneuver as much as all-time Japanese #5. South Korean 3000 mSC NR holder Ha Rim Jo took nearly 5 seconds off her file, profitable in 10:01.99.
