Kubo, Ochiai, Drury and Saku Chosei Lead Japan’s Group For U20 World Championships

800 m nationwide champions Rin Kubo and Ko Ochiai lead Japan’s workforce for subsequent month’s Lima World U20 Championships, Kubo having simply damaged the NR with a 1:59.93 and Ochiai simply off the NR at Nationals final month with a 1:45.82 within the heats. Sherry Drury is one other one in all Japan’s huge U20 hopes and can run the 1500 m, and 2023 Nationwide Excessive Faculty Ekiden champion Saku Chosei H.S. dominates the lads’s lengthy distance squad with Third-years Yamato Hamaguchi within the 3000 m and 5000 m, Tetsu Sasaki within the 3000 m and 3000 mSC, and 2024 graduate Soma Nagahara within the 3000 m SC.

World Athletics U20 Championships Japanese Group

Lima, Peru, 27-31 Aug. 2024

Ladies (14)

800 m

Rin Kubo (Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S.) – 1:59.93

1500 m

Sherry Drury (Tsuyama H.S.) – 4:16.69

3000 m

Miyu Yamada (Meijo Univ.) – 9:16.12

Miu Suzuki (Tsukuba Univ.) – 9:19.53

5000 m

Kana Mizumoto (Edion) – 15:31.51

Yumi Yamamoto (Ritsumeikan Univ.) – 15:47.74

100 m Hurdles

Ami Takahashi (Tsukuba Univ.) – 13.28

Miki Hayashi (Waseda Univ.) – 13.40

400 m Hurdles

Haru Hiraki (Osaka Seikei Univ.) – 58.02

Aki Yajima (Tokorozawa Nishi H.S.) – 58.58

10000 m Race Stroll

Suzu Okuno (Naniwa H.S.) – 46:32 (street)

Suzuka Kuge (Shizuoka Futaba H.S.) – 49:56.91

Javelin Throw

Nozomi Sakurai (Chukyo Univ.) – 54.89 m

Males (26)

100 m

Naoki Nishioka (Osaka Gyosei H.S.) – 10.20

Fukuto Komuro (Tsukuba Shuei H.S.) – 10.31

200 m

Kei Wakana (Sano H.S.) – 20.88

Katsuki Sato (Tokyo Gakkan Niigata H.S.) – 20.90

400 m

Kentaro Shirahata (Toyo Univ.) – 46.55

Ryota Oishi (Hamamatsu Kaiseikan H.S.) – 46.57

800 m

Ko Ochiai (Shiga Gakuen H.S.) – 1:45.82

Togo Yoshizawa (Toho H.S.) – 1:51.39

1500 m

Koki Terada (Chuo Univ.) – 3:43.54

3000 m

Yamato Hamaguchi (Saku Chosei H.S.) – 8:01.92

Tetsu Sasaki (Saku Chosei H.S.). 8:02.56

5000 m

Yamato Hamaguchi (Saku Chosei H.S.) – 13:44.99

Kaito Matsui (Toyo Univ.) – 13:46.34

110 m Hurdles

Kyosuke Yamanaka (Hosei Univ.) – 13.43

Yu Hashimoto (Tokyo Nogyo Daini H.S.) – 13.53

400 m Hurdles

Kyo Kikuta (Hosei Daini H.S.) – 49.77

Kairi Gonda (Waseda Univ.) – 50.20

3000 m Steeplechase

Soma Nagahara (Juntendo Univ.) – 8:37.36

Tetsu Sasaki (Saku Chosei Univ.) – 8:39.15

10000 m Race Stroll

Sotaro Osaka (Toyo Univ.) – 39:54.42

Taisei Yoshizaki (Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) – 40:39.33

Excessive Leap

Kaisei Nakatani (Fukuoka Daiichi H.S.) – 2.19 m

Pole Vault

Ryota Murakoso (Nihon Univ.) – 5.30 m

Rikuya Yoshida (Kansai Univ.) – 5.25 m

Lengthy Leap

Takuto Tsuchiya (Seiwa Gakuen H.S.) – 7.73 m

Eito Omori (Fukuoka Daiichi H.S.) – 7.58 m

Triple Leap

Koki Kanai (Juntendo Univ.) – 15.85 m

Decathlon

Ryo Takahashi (Keio Univ.) – 7235