Japan’s Olympic trials, Nationwide Championships and Nationwide U20 Championships, proceed Friday in Niigata at Denka Massive Swan Stadium. Reside outcomes shall be right here. What’s on the menu:
Finals
Girls’s Discus Throw Closing – 14:00
2023 nationwide champion Maki Saito is at forty fifth within the Paris rankings, and even a win round her 58.47 PB from March would not crack the highest 40. NR holder Nanaka Kori has been off greater than on this season and has solely thrown over 57 m 3 times. The win will just about come all the way down to the 2 of them.
Maki Saito (Tokai Univ.) – 58.47 m SB / PB
Nanaka Kori (Niigata Albirex RC) – 57.85 m SB / 59.03 m PB
Minori Tsujikawa (Uchida Yoko AC) – 53.84 m SB / 54.46 m PB
Akane Kawaguchi (Wizas) – 52.03 m SB / 54.05 m PB
Mika Yamamoto (Kondotech) – 50.06 m SB / 50.51 m PB
Natsumi Fujimori (STAC) – 49.53 m SB / 52.97 m PB
Girls’s Pole Vault Closing – 17:00
Coming in off a trio of excellent performances in Canada, NR holder Misaki Morota presently sits at thirty third within the Highway to Paris rankings with the highest 32 going to the Olympics. She may drop additional primarily based on different nations’ nationwide championships this last weekend of qualifying, however what would it not take to for her to overhaul present Thirty second-placer Anjuli Knasche of Germany? The win in 4.31 m. She’s cleared increased than that 6 instances this yr, however has missed it 6 instances too.
Misaki Morota (Artwork House) – 4.48 m SB / PB
Rena Tanaka (Yoshida Seikyu) – 4.20 m SB / PB
Megumi Dainobu (Nittai Univ. SMG). 4.20 m SB / PB
Kanae Tatsuta (Nippatsu) – 4.20 m SB / 4.30 m PB
Mitsuki Kobayashi (Nittai Univ.) – 4.13 m SB / PB
Akari Osakaya (Sonoda Gakuen Joshi Univ.) – 4.13 m SB / PB
Girls’s Triple Soar Closing – 18:10
#2-ranked Maoko Takashima is a DNS, so it is all as much as NR holder Mariko Morimoto. Morimoto’s Paris chances are high trying fairly good, presently at twenty third of 32 within the Olympic quota. A profitable leap equaling her 13.37 m season 2nd-best can be sufficient for her to go present Twenty second-placer Aleksandra Nacheva of Bulgaria, however so long as she’s high 3 right here Morimoto ought to make it to Paris.
Mariko Morimoto (Orico) – 14.16 m SB / PB
Akari Funada (Mukogawa Joshi Univ.) – 13.54 m SB / 13.81 m PB
Sakura Miyahata (Seven) – 13.16 m SB / PB
Moeno Saito (Dawn) – 13.00 m SB / PB
Saki Kenmochi (Hasegawa) – 12.94 m SB / 13.42 m PB
Girls’s Javelin Throw Closing – 18:40
Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) – 67.38 m SB / PB
Marina Saito (Suzuki) – 62.07 m SB / 62.37 m PB
Momone Ueda (Zenrin) – 61.15 m SB / 61.75 m PB
Mahiro Osa (Kokushikan Membership) – 61.10 m SB / PB
Yuka Sato (Niconiconori) – 60.37 m SB / 62.88 m PB
Kiho Kuze (Kondotech) – 59.16 m SB / PB
Girls’s 400 m Closing – 18:45
With 2023 nationwide champion Haruna Kuboyama out it is just about between sub-53.50 girls Nanako Matsumoto and Yuna Iwata for this yr’s nationwide title. Shizuho Moriyama and Abigail Ido needs to be in it for high 3.
Nanako Matsumoto (Toho Ginko) – 53.81, 1st, H3
Yuna Iwata (Suzuki) – 53.89, 1st, H1
Shizuho Moriyama (Ichigo) – 54.11, 2nd, H3
Yuki Nakao (Sonoda Gakuen Joshi Univ.) – 54.12, third, H3
Mayu Inaoka (Kagotani) – 54.48, 2nd, H1
Abigail Fuka Ido (Toho Ginko) – 54.50, 1st, H2
Yuika Mori (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) – 54.55, third, H1
Keiko Iida (Chuo Univ.) – 54.77, 2nd, H2
Girls’s 100 m Closing – 19:05
Anticipate to see Arisa Kimishima defend her nationwide title right here. Manaka Miura and Midori Mikase are the one ones who may problem her, however realistically they’re each competing for 2nd.
Arisa Kimishima (DKS) – 11.48 (+1.2) – 1st, SF1
Midori Mikase (Sumitomo Denko) – 11.55 (+0.1) – 1st, SF2
Manaka Miura (Ehima T&F Assoc.) – 11.60 (+1.2) – 2nd, SF1
Hinami Yamanaka (Shiga T&F Assoc.) – 11.68 (+0.1) – 2nd, Sf2
Yuhana Addia Ross (Josai H.S.) – 11.73 (+0.1) – third, SF3
Aiko Iki (Osaka Fuel) – 11.77 (+1.2) – third, SF1
Yume Okuno (Konan Univ.) – 11.77 (+1.2) – 4th, Sf1
Ruho Sato (Hosei Univ.) – 11.83 (+0.1) – 4th, SF2
Males’s 1500 m Closing – 19:20
After favourite Kazuto Iizawa and 4 others fell on the final lap of their warmth the ultimate has 17 names on the beginning record, elevating the hazard it is going to occur once more. So much will come all the way down to how a lot harm Iizawa took, however with 5 of the 8 quickest Japanese males ever over 1500 m within the race together with NR holder Kazuki Kawamura it is not a totally accomplished deal even when Iizawa is at 100%.
Alex Kipchirchir Kipirech (Comodi Iida) – 3:42.82, 1st H2
Atsuki Urushibara (Toenec) – 3:43.05, 2nd, H2
Yudai Noguchi (Toenec) – 3:43.51, third, H2
Masato Saiki (Fujisan no Meisui) – 3:43.83, 4th, H2
Masaya Yanagimoto (Aisan Kogyo) – 3:43.96, fifth, H2
Koki Terada (Chuo Univ.) – 3:44.39, sixth, H2
Rikuto Iijima (Ami AC) – 3:45.72, 1st, H1
Keisuke Morita (Subaru) – 3:45.78, 2nd, H1
Shoma Funatsu (Komori Corp.) – 3:45.84, third, H1
Ryuji Tatezawa (DeNA) – 3:45.87, 4th, H1
Nanami Arai (Honda) – 3:46.03, fifth, H1
Kazuki Kawamura (Toeneem) – 3:46.38, sixth, H1
Yusuke Takahashi (Earth Labo) – 3:54.11, tenth, H2 – qR
Takumi Shiobara (Juntendo Univ.) – 3:55.73, eleventh, H2 – qR
Nao Kurihara (Josai Univ.) – 4:03.57, thirteenth, H2 – qR
Yusuke Inoguchi (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) – 4:12.84, 14th, H2 – qR
Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) – 4:27.39, fifteenth, H2 – qJ
Males’s 400 mH Closing – 19:35
Perhaps the race of the day in one among Japan’s all-around finest occasions. Ken Toyoda and Kaito Tsutsue each have the Olympic customary and simply have to make high 3 to go to Paris. Yusaku Kodama wants high 3 and at the least 49.82 to do something to extend his possibilities of hanging on to his spot within the 40-deep Olympic quota. Haruto Deguchi wants high 3 and 49.30 to interrupt again into the quota. Each Kodama and Deguchi bettered these instances to win their heats. And there is the gray zone round Kazuki Kurokawa, who has the Olympic customary however was a DNS at Nationals. It may be one of the dramatic races at Nationals this yr.
Ken Toyoda (Keio Univ.) – 48.62, 1st, H1
Daiki Ogawa (Toyo Univ.) – 49.02, 2nd, H1
Haruto Deguchi (Zenrin) – 49.17, 1st, H2
Shunta Inoue (Hosei Univ.) – 49.24, third, H1
Yusaku Kodama (Nojima T&F Membership) – 49.36, 1st, H3
Kaito Tsutsue (ST-Wako) – 49.40, 2nd, H2
Masaya Oda (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 49.68, 2nd, H3
Tatsuhiro Yamamoto (Seki AC) – 49.70, third, H2
Girls’s 1500 m Closing – 19:45
Hand the win to NR holder Nozomi Tanaka now, as a result of until she goes Mu there’s no one right here who can beat her. Kenyan Hellen Ekarare is pacing her by 1000 m to hit the 4:02.40 Olympic customary, and he or she might need firm from Mirriam Cherop, competing OC after coming into the Japanese trials earlier than working Kenya’s Olympic Trials as a solution to take a shot on the Olympic customary if she positioned high 3 at her personal trials. Excessive-profile excessive schooler Sherry Drury made the ultimate, which places two of Japan’s three largest feminine media magnets in observe and subject in the identical race.
Hellen Ekarare (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 4:06.93, 1st, H1
Nozomi Tanaka (New Stability) – 4:08.16, 1st, H2
Mirriam Cherop (Shin Nihon Jusetsu) – 4:11.95, 2nd, H1
Ran Urabe (Sekisui Kagaku) – 4:12.07, third, H1
Yume Goto (Uniqlo) – 4:12.35, 4th, H1
Haruko Hosaka (Panasonic) – 4:14.03, fifth, H1
Ayano Ide (Shiseido) – 4:14.69, 2nd, H2
Saki Katagihara (Edion) – 4:15.25, third, H2
Maki Izumida (Daiichi Seimei) – 4:16.61, 4th, H2
Sherry Drury (Tsuyama H.S.) – 4:16.69, sixth, H1
Ai Fujita (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 4:16.83, fifth, H2
Tomoka Kimura (Sekisui Kagaku) – 4:17.40, sixth, H2
Males’s 5000 m Closing – 20:00
It took sub-13:30 to make the sphere of 30 this yr, one thing solely Kenya and the U.S.A. may additionally pull off, however with the withdrawal of #1-ranked Keita Sato and Ryuto Igawa thirtieth within the subject is now Takashi Ichida, 13:30.08. Sato was the one one near the Olympic customary with a 13:09.45 this season earlier than an harm in April set him again, leaving 10000 m NR holder Kazuya Shiojiri and all-time Japanese #3 Hyuga Endo as the one ones probably in vary of creating the quota of 42 on rankings. Shiojiri is presently at sixtieth and Endo at 61st. What would it not take? Shiojiri cannot do it and would want to run the usual, which his teaching workers informed JRN is not within the plan. To catch present Forty second-place Santiago Catrofe of Uruguay, Endo wants the win in 13:18.27. Given his 13:20.28 season finest, that appears in vary, particularly with Shiojiri, sub-13:18 man Tatsuhiko Ito, and Kenyan Amos Kurgat within the race too.
Tatsuhiko Ito (Honda) – 13:17.65 SB / PB
Kazuya Shiojiri (Fujitsu) – 13:19.85 SB / 13:16.53 PB
Hyuga Endo (Sumitomo Denko) – 13:20.28 SB / 13:10.69 PB
Kanta Shimizu (Subaru) – 13:21.18 SB / PB
Shunsuke Yoshii (Chuo Univ.) – 13:22.01 SB / PB
Nagiya Mori (Honda) – 13:23.08 SB / PB
Shota Nakano (Honda) – 13:24.11 SB / PB
Yohei Ikeda (Kao) – 13:24.14 SB / PB
Kazuki Tamura (Sumitomo Denko) – 13:24.38 SB / PB
Kiseki Shiozawa (Fujitsu) – 13:24.44 SB / PB
Mebuki Suzuki (Toyota) – 13:24.55 SB / PB
Masaya Tsurukawa (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 13:24.90 SB / PB
Males’s 200 m Closing – 20:30
Shota Iizuka, Koki Ueyama and Towa Uzawa are all presently properly contained in the Paris quota of 48 and want to position high 3 right here to make the Paris group. Can 2010 U20 World Championships 200 m gold medalist Iizuka make his 4th Olympic group? What a solution to finish the night time.
Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) – 20.46 (+0.6) – 1st, H1
Koki Ueyama (Sumitomo Denko) – 20.47 (+0.6) – 2nd, H1
Soshi Misakubo (Miyazaki Sports activities Assoc.) – 20.51 (+0.3) – 1st, H3
Yudai Nishi (Mint Tokyo) – 20.56 (+0.3) – 2nd, H3
Towa Uzawa (Tsukuba Univ.) – 20.57 (+0.7) – 1st, H2
Shoto Uno (Orico) – 20.61 (+0.7) – 2nd, H2
Kento Matsui (Kansai Univ.) – 20.63 (+0.6) – third, H1
Futo Takasu (Waseda Univ.) – 20.79 (+0.3) – third, H3
Heats and Semifinals
Males’s 400 m Prelims – 18:20
Nothing to see right here, people. Transfer alongside and anticipate Saturday’s heats the place the contenders for the ultimate shall be working.
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