◇ 4th ◇ 12th ◇ Osaka Yanmar Stadium Nagai ◇ Men’s 200m Final, etc.
The 106th Japan Championship will also reach the final day of the tournament. Introducing the highlights of the 4th day, such as the battle for the representative of the World Championships (July, Oregon, USA).
◇ Women’s 5000m Final
Two people who lead the middle- and long-distance world of Japanese women will match up with the aim of representing the world championship.
Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post Group), who has already been appointed as the representative at 10,000 meters, will appear. She won the 7th place in the Tokyo Olympics and wants to show her will as a Japanese record holder of the same kind.
Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Industries Corp.), who has entered the third event of this tournament, aims to be the representative of the second event following the 1500 meters. The 800-meter final will be held from 4:30 pm on the same day, and the 5000-meter final will start at 5:35 pm 75 minutes later. Can you get results in an overcrowded schedule?
Hironaka, Tanaka, Kaede Hagitani (EDION), Tomoka Kimura (Shiseido), and Sayaka Sato (Sekisui Chemical) have broken the standard participation record for the world championships. These five people will play a central role in competing for three representative slots.
◇ Men’s long jump final
Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu), who won the 6th place in the Tokyo Olympics, is aiming for a world ticket.
Injured the left ankle of the railroad crossing at the Nihon University competition on April 9. On the 30th, the Kinan Memorial (Osaka) was 3rd at 7 meters 76 (no wind), and the Seiko Golden Grand Prix (GGP) was absent.
This tournament aims at the participation standard record (8 meters 22). I want to definitely decide to be a representative.
◇ Men’s 200m final
While 100-meter champion Sani Brown Hakim (Tumbleweed TC) was absent, the strong man suffered in the qualifying on the 11th the day before.
Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) and Yuki Koike did not reach the second place in the group and were picked up in time to pass the semi-finals. The overall top time was 20 seconds 48 (head wind 0.4 meters) Hiroki Ueyama (Sumitomo Electric Industries). Kotaro Miura (Waseda Univ.), Ryota Suzuki (Suzuki), Toba Uzawa (University of Tsukuba), Yoshihiro Someya (Osaka Gas), Kotaro Ito (Tokyo Gas) advanced to the final.
◇ Men’s 110m obstacle final
Attention is focused on Juntendo’s senior-junior confrontation.
Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.), who is the representative of the Tokyo Olympics and holds the Japanese record, passed the qualifying round in 13 seconds 29 (head wind 0.2 meters) in the first place following the failure of his left ankle. He responded, “It was more stable following the middle stage than I expected.” It will take consecutive victories in the final.
Rachid Muratake (Juntendo University), a junior in the second grade of Izumitani, set a time of 13 seconds 27, which is 5/100 seconds higher than the standard record for participation in the world championships in the qualifying session on the same day. “To be honest, it’s unexpected. I thought I’d loosen it with plenty of time, but it came out,” he said. If you are in the 3rd place, you will be nominated as a representative of the world championship. “It’s no exaggeration to say that I’ve been practicing for this day,” he said.
