Yuki Yamazaki (山崎 勇喜, Yamazaki Yūki; born 16 January 1984 in Toyama) is a Japanese race walker. Yamazaki began to…
Yuki Yamazaki (山崎 勇喜, Yamazaki Yūki; born 16 January 1984 in Toyama) is a Japanese race walker. Yamazaki began to participate in race walking at high school, and competed at the World Junior championships in his junior year. At the Osaka World Championships in 2007, he was in contention in the 50 km race until he was misdirected by officials and disqualified for entering the stadium without completing the full course. If he had finished in the top eight, he would have qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. He managed to qualify for the 2008 Olympics after setting a new Japanese record at the Japanese national championships.
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Takayuki Tanii (谷井孝行, Tanii Takayuki; born 14 February 1983 in Namerikawa) is a Japanese race walker. He competed in…
Takayuki Tanii (谷井孝行, Tanii Takayuki; born 14 February 1983 in Namerikawa) is a Japanese race walker. He competed in the 50 kilometres walk event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but failed to finish.
Azusa Nojiri (野尻 あずさ, Nojiri Azusa; born 6 June 1982) is a Japanese long-distance runner who competes in marathon…
Azusa Nojiri (野尻 あずさ, Nojiri Azusa; born 6 June 1982) is a Japanese long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. Her personal best for the distance is 2:24:57 hours. She represented Japan in the marathon at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, coming in 19th. Originally a cross-country skier, she participated at the 2005 Winter Universiade but switched to distance running instead. She competed at the 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and shared in the team bronze medal. She formerly ran for the Dai-Ichi Life corporate team and won the ekiden corporate title with them in 2011.
Kiyonari Shibata (Japanese: 柴田 清成; born 27 March 1973) is a Japanese former track and field athlete and middle-distance…
Kiyonari Shibata (Japanese: 柴田 清成; born 27 March 1973) is a Japanese former track and field athlete and middle-distance runner. He is the current Japanese record holder for the mile run, with a personal best of 3:58.89 minutes. His time, set on 11 May 1996, made him the second Japanese man to run a sub-four-minute mile, after Takashi Ishii, who had done so nearly twenty years earlier in 1977. Shibata's 1500 metres best of 3:39.45 minutes is also among the best times for the event by a Japanese, behind Fumikazu Kobayashi and Ishii. Despite his breaking a long-standing national record, Shibata only won at the Japan Championships in Athletics on one occasion, taking the 1500 m title in 1997. That same year he won a gold medal in the event at the East Asian Games in a then games record time of 3:49.90 minutes. The following year he won the second and final international medal of his career at the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships by finishing as runner-up behind multiple Asian champion Mohamed Suleiman. He also ran at the 1998 Asian Games and placed seventh in the 1500 m final. He represented his home region, Toyama Prefecture, twice at the All-Japan Interprefectural Ekiden Championships.
Toru Terasawa (寺沢 徹, Terasawa Tōru; January 4, 1935 – March 23, 2025) was a Japanese long-distance runner who on…
Toru Terasawa (寺沢 徹, Terasawa Tōru; January 4, 1935 – March 23, 2025) was a Japanese long-distance runner who on February 17, 1963 set a world record in the marathon with a time of 2:15:16 at the Beppu Marathon. Terasawa placed second in the marathon at the 1964 Japanese Olympic trials and 15th at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Terasawa is also a two-time champion of the Fukuoka Marathon; he set a Japanese national record during his 1962 victory (2:16:18.4) and improved on it when he won in 1964 (2:14:48.2). At Fukuoka in 1966, he finished fifth (2:15:51.2) after colliding with Jim Hogan, the 1966 European marathon champion, and falling to the pavement just before the halfway mark. When Morio Shigematsu set the world record at the 1965 Polytechnic Marathon, Terasawa finished second. His 2:13:41 performance was the third best ever at the time In 1965, he set his second world record, in the 30 km, and in 1969 he won the Nagano Marathon. He died on March 23, 2025, at the age of 90.