Japan named host nation’s team for Olympic Games

Japan has named a team of 65 athletes to represent the host nation at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

The line-up features world 20km race walk champion Toshikazu Yamanishi along with four members of the 4x100m squad that took bronze at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019.

Thirteen individual national record-holders have also been selected, including 100m sprinter Ryota Yamagata, middle-distance runner Nozomi Tanaka, sprint hurdlers Shunsuke Izumiya and Asuka Terada, race walker Masatora Kawano and javelin thrower Haruka Kitaguchi.

Japan had named its marathon squad last year following a highly competitive selection process.

Japanese team for Tokyo

WOMEN1500m: Nozomi Tanaka, Ran Urabe5000m: Kaede Hagitani, Ririka Hironaka, Nozomi Tanaka10,000m: Yuka Ando, Ririka Hironaka, Hitomi NiiyaMarathon: Mao Ichiyama, Honami Maeda, Ayuko Suzuki3000m steeplechase: Yuno Yamanaka100m hurdles: Masumi Aoki, Ayako Kimura, Asuka TeradaJavelin: Haruka Kitaguchi20km race walk: Nanako Fujii, Kaori Kawazoe, Kumiko Okada4x100m: Hanae Aoyama, Yu Ishikawa, Mei Kodama, Ami Saito, Remi Tsuruta,

MEN100m: Yuki Koike, Shuhei Tada, Ryota Yamagata200m: Shota Iizuka, Hakim Sani Brown, Jun Yamashita400m: Julian Walsh5000m: Yuta Bando, Hiroki Matsueda10,000m: Akira Aizawa, Tatsuhiko ItoMarathon: Yuma Hattori, Shogo Nakamura, Suguro Osako3000m steeplechase: Ryoma Aoki, Ryuji Miura, Kosei Yamaguchi110m hurdles: Shunsuke Izumiya, Taioh Kanai, Shunya Takayama400m hurdles: Kazuki Kurokawa, Abe Takatoshi, Hiromu YamauchiHigh jump: Takashi Eto, Naoto TobePole vault: Masaki Ejima, Seito YamamotoLong jump: Yuki Hashioka, Hibiki Tsuha, Shotaro ShiroyamaJavelin: Takuto Kominami20km race walk: Koki Ikeda, Eiki Takahashi, Toshikazu Yamanishi50km race walk: Hayato Katsuki, Masatora Kawano, Satoshi Maruo4x100m: Bruno Dede, Yoshihide Kiryu, Yuki Koike, Shuhei Tada, Ryota Yamagata4x400m: Rikuya Ito, Kaito Kawabata, Kentaro Sato, Aoto Suzuki, Julian Walsh

posted Saturday July 10th
by World Athletics