Skip to main content

World Youth Championships Day Three Japanese Results

by Brett Larner
video by Akiko Sani Brown

Day Three of the World Youth Championships was relatively quiet for the Japanese contingent.  Of the two finals featuring Japanese athletes, Yuki Shibata (Kitakyushu Municipal H.S.) had better luck, placing 7th in the girls' 2000 mSC in 6:48.41, seconds out of the top 5 but 30 seconds behind winner Celliphine Chepteek Chespol (Kenya).  After running a 46.85 PB in the boys' 400 m semifinals, Minato Sasaki (Morioka Minami H.S.) struggled in the final, finishing last in 47.54.



Two of Japan's gold medal contenders moved on through the opening rounds without problems.  100 m gold medalist Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Josai Prep H.S.) won his 200 m heat in 21.19, jogging down the home straight with ease, while boys' pole vault favorite Masaki Ejima (Eda H.S.) likewise advanced after clearing 4.95 m.  Kazuki Tamura (Shimonoseki Shogyo H.S.) also advanced in the boys' 200 m, with Takaaki Yoshida (Kanonji Chuo H.S.) joining Ejima in the pole vault final.  Ami Saito (Kurashiki Chuo H.S.) completed a good day for the Japanese 200 m crew, advancing to the girls' semifinal after running 24.44 for 3rd in her heat.

9th World Youth Championships Day Three Japanese Results
Cali, Colombia, 7/17/15
click here for complete results

Boys' 400 m Final
1. Christopher Taylor (Jamaica) - 45.27 - WYL
2. Josephus Lyles (U.S.A.) - 45.46 - PB
3. Keshun Reed (U.S.A.) - 45.96
-----
8. Minato Sasaki (Japan) - 47.54

Boys' 200 m Heat 5 -1.0 m/s
1. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Japan) - 21.19 - Q
2. Edel Rogelio Amores (Cuba) - 21.46 - Q
3. Aobakwe Malau (Botswana) - 22.02 - PB

Boys' 200 m Heat 6 +0.5 m/s
1. Jack Hale (Australia) - 21.31 - Q
2. Kazuki Tamura (Japan) - 21.60 - Q
3. Gediminas Truskauskas (Lithuania) - 21.75 - PB

Girls' 200 m Heat 7 -0.9 m/s
1. Shaneil English (Jamaica) - 24.23 - Q
2. Ina Huemer (Austria) - 24.37 - Q - PB
3. Ami Saito (Japan) - 24.44 - Q

Girls' 2000 m Steeplechase Final
1. Celliphine Chepteek Chespol (Kenya) - 6:17.15 - PB
2. Sandrafelis Chebet Tuei (Kenya) - 6:19.61
3. Agrie Belachew (Ethiopia) - 6:34.68
4. Alondra Negron (Puerto Rico) - 6:39.51
5. Beletu Hailu (Ethiopia) - 6:41.46
-----
7. Yuki Shibata (Japan) - 6:48.41

Boys' 2000 m Steeplechase Heat 1
1. Vincent Kipyegon Ruto (Kenya) - 5.34:52 - Q
2. Tegenu Mengistu (Ethiopia) - 5.42:01 - Q - PB
3. Boniface Abel Sikowo (Uganda) - 5:46.56 - Q - PB
-----
9. Takeshi Nishida (Japan) - 5:59.06

Boys' Pole Vault Qualification Group A
1. Emmanouil Karalis (Greece) - 4.95 m - Q
1. Armand Duplantis (Sweden) - 4.95 m - Q
3. Joel Leon Benitez (Great Britain) - 4.95 m - Q
-----
6. Takaaki Yoshida (Japan) - 4.95 m - Q

Boys' Pole Vault Qualification Group B
1. Muntadher Faleh Abdulwahid (Iraq) - 4.95 m - Q
1. Denis Akinshin (Russia) - 4.95 m - Q
3. Masaki Ejima (Japan) - 4.95 m - Q

Girls' Heptathlon Day One Point Total
1. Adriana Rodriguez (Cuba) - 3678
2. Lisa Maihofer (Germany) - 3590
3. Marisa Vaz Carvalho (Portugal) - 3580
-----
21. Maya Shreshta (Japan) - 3234

(c) 2015 Brett Larner
all rights reserved

Comments

Most-Read This Week

Weekend Racing Roundup

  China saw a new men's national record of 2:06:57 from  Jie He  at the Wuxi Marathon Sunday, but in Japan it was a relatively quiet weekend with mostly cold and rainy amateur-level marathons across the country. At the Tokushima Marathon , club runner Yuhi Yamashita  won the men's race by almost 4 1/2 minutes in 2:17:02, the fastest Japanese men's time of the weekend, but oddly took 22 seconds to get across the starting line. The women's race saw a close finish between the top two, with Shiho Iwane  winning in 2:49:33 over Ayaka Furukawa , 2nd in 2:49:46.  At the 41st edition of the Sakura Marathon in Chiba, Yukie Matsumura  (Comodi Iida) ran the fastest Japanese women's time of the weekend, 2:42:45, to take the win. Club runner Yuki Kuroda  won the men's race in 2:20:08.  Chika Yokota  won the Saga Sakura Marathon women's race in 2:49:33.  Yuki Yamada  won the men's race in 2:21:47 after taking the lead in the final 2 km.  Naoki Inoue  won the 16th r

Japan's Olympic Marathon Team Meets the Press

With renewed confidence, Japan's Olympic marathon team will face the total 438 m elevation difference hills of Paris this summer. The members of the women's and men's marathon teams for August's Paris Olympics appeared at a press conference in Tokyo on Mar. 25 in conjunction with the Japan Marathon Championship Series III (JMC) awards gala. Women's Olympic trials winner Yuka Suzuki (Daiichi Seimei) said she was riding a wave of motivation in the wake of the new women's national record. When she watched Honami Maeda (Tenmaya) set the record at January's Osaka International Women's Marathon on TV, Suzuki said she was, "absolutely stunned." Her coach Sachiko Yamashita told her afterward, "When someone breaks the NR, things change," and Suzuki found herself saying, "I want to take my shot." After training for a great run in Paris, she said, "I definitely want to break the NR in one of my marathons after that." Mao

Takeuchi Wins Niigata Half in Boston Tune-Up

Running in cold, windy and rainy conditions, Ryoma Takeuchi (ND Software) warmed up for April's Boston Marathon with a win at Wednesday's Niigata Half Marathon . Takeuchi sat behind Nittai University duo Susumu Yamazaki and Ryuga Ishikawa in the early stages, then made a series of pushes to pick up the pace. Each time he tucked in behind whoever went to the front, while behind them others dropped off. Before 15 km only Yamazaki and Riki Koike of Soka University were left, and when Takeuchi went to the front the last time after 15 km only Koike followed. By 16 he was gone too, leaving Takeuchi to solo it in to the win in 1:03:13 with a 17-second negative split. "This was my last fitness check before the Boston Marathon next month, and my time was right on-target," he said post-race. "Everything went as planned. I'm looking forward to racing some of the world's best in Boston, and my goal there is to place in the single digits." Just back from tr