Defending champion Haruka Kitaguchi, two-time world champion Toshikazu Yamanishi and national record-holder Rachid Muratake are among the 80 athletes named on Japan’s team for the home World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, taking place from 13-21 September.
Kitaguchi, who won the Olympic title in Paris after claiming her world gold in Budapest, will defend her javelin title, while world record-holder Yamanishi will look to regain a world 20km race walk title he won in 2019 and retained in 2022.
Muratake became the first Japanese athlete to break 13 seconds in the 110m hurdles and currently sits second on this season’s top list. His national record of 12.92 puts him joint 11th on the world all-time list.
The team also includes Nozomi Tanaka in the 1500m and 5000m, Ryuji Miura in the 3000m steeplechase and Yuto Seko in the high jump.
Japanese team for Tokyo
Women
200m: Abigeirufuka Ido
400m: Nanako Matsumoto
800m: Rin Kubo
1500m: Tomoka Kimura, Nozomi Tanaka
5000m: Ririka Hironaka, Nozomi Tanaka, Yuma Yamamoto
10,000m: Ririka Hironaka, Mikuni Yada
100m hurdles: Mako Fukube, Hitomi Nakajima, Yumi Tanaka
3000m steeplechase: Miu Saito
High jump: Nagisa Takahashi
Pole vault: Misaki Morota
Long jump: Sumire Hata
Triple jump: Mariko Morimoto, Maoko Takashima
Discus: Nanaka Kori
Javelin: Haruka Kitaguchi, Sae Takemoto, Momone Ueda
Marathon: Yuka Ando, Kana Kobayashi, Sayaka Sato
20km race walk: Nanako Fujii, Kumiko Okada, Ayane Yanai
35km race walk: Masumi Fuchise, Yukiko Umeno, Maika Yagi
Men
100m: Yoshihide Kiryu, Yuhi Mori, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
200m: Shota Iizuka, Soshi Mizukubo, Towa Uzawa
400m: Yuki Joseph Nakajima, Fuga Sato
800m: Ko Ochiai
1500m: Kazuto Iizawa
5000m: Nagiya Mori
10,000m: Jun Kasai, Mebuki Suzuki
110m hurdles: Shunsuke Izumiya, Rachid Muratake, Shusei Nomoto
400m hurdles: Shunta Inoue, Daiki Ogawa, Ken Toyoda
3000m steeplechase: Ryuji Miura
High jump: Ryoichi Akamatsu, Yuto Seko, Tomohiro Shinno
Long jump: Yuki Hashioka, Riku Ito, Hibiki Tsuha
Discus: Masateru Yugami
Hammer: Shota Fukuda
Javelin: Roderick Genki Dean, Gen Naganuma, Yuta Sakiyama
Marathon: Ryota Kondo, Naoki Koyama, Yuya Yoshida
20km race walk: Satoshi Maruo, Toshikazu Yamanishi, Kento Yoshikawa
35km race walk: Hayato Katsuki, Masatora Kawano, Satoshi Maruo
4x100m: Naoki Inoue, Yoshihide Kiryu, Yuki Koike, Yuhi Mori, Naoki Okami, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown
4x400m: Kenki Imaizumi, Yuki Joseph Nakajima, Fuga Sato, Kentaro Sato, Sho Tanabe, Takuho Yoshizu
Mixed
4x400m: Arie Aoki, Abigeirufuka Ido, Shinya Hayashi, Nanako Matsumoto, Sorato Shimizu, Hiroki Yanagita