Japan at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics explained

Iaaf:	JPN
Fedname:	Japan Association of Athletics Federations
Year:	2009
Games:	World Championships in Athletics
Location:	Berlin
Competitors:	57
Gold:	0
Silver:	1
Bronze:	1
Previous:	2007
Next:	2011

Japan will compete at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. A team of 57 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition. Selected athletes have achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards. Koji Murofushi (hammer throw), Yuki Yamazaki (50 km walk), and the athletes from the Marathon team are considered the country's best medal chances.^[1]

Team selection

Track and road events

Event	Athletes
Event	Men	Women
100 metres	Masashi Eriguchi Shintaro Kimura Naoki Tsukahara	Momoko Takahashi Chisato Fukushima
200 meters	Shinji Takahira Hitoshi Saito Kenji Fujimitsu	Chisato Fukushima Momoko Takahashi
400 metres	Yuzo Kanemaru Hideyuki Hirose	Asami Tanno
4 x 100 metres relay	Masashi Eriguchi Shintaro Kimura Naoki Tsukahara Shinji Takahira Hitoshi Saito Kenji Fujimitsu	Momoko Takahashi Chisato Fukushima Mayumi Watanabe Maki Wada Asuka Terada
4 x 400 metres relay		Asami Tanno Satomi Kubokura Sayaka Aoki Mayu Sato Miho Shingu
5000 metres	Yuichiro Ueno	Yurika Nakamura Yuriko Kobayashi
10,000 metres	Yuki Iwai	Yukari Sahaku Kayoko Fukushi Yurika Nakamura
Marathon	Satoshi Irifune Masaya Shimizu Kazuhiro Maeda Arata Fujiwara Atsushi Sato	Yoshimi Ozaki ~~Yoko Shibui~~ Yoshiko Fujinaga Yuri Kano Yukiko Akaba
100 metres hurdles	—	Asuka Terada
110 metres hurdles	Tasuku Tanonaka	—
400 metres hurdles	Kenji Narisako Kazuaki Yoshida	Satomi Kubokura Sayaka Aoki
3000 m steeplechase	Yoshitaka Iwamizu	Minori Hayakari
20 km race walk	Koichiro Morioka Isamu Fujisawa Yusuke Suzuki	Masumi Fuchise Mayumi Kawasaki Kumi Otoshi
50 km race walk	Yuki Yamazaki Koichiro Morioka Takayuki Tanii	—

Field and combined events

Event	Athletes
Event	Men	Women
Pole vault	Daichi Sawano Takafumi Suzuki	Takayo Kondo
High jump	Naoyuki Daigo
Long jump	Daisuke Arakawa	Sachiko Masumi
Hammer throw	~~Koji Murofushi~~
Javelin throw	Yukifumi Murakami	Yuki Ebihara
Decathlon	Daisuke Ikeda	—

Results

Men

Track and road events

Event	Athletes	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
Event	Athletes	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
100 m	Masashi Eriguchi	10.38	3	10.45	8	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
	Shintaro Kimura	10.47	3	10.54	8	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
	Naoki Tsukahara	10.28	2	10.15	3	10.25	8	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
200 m	Shinji Takahira	20.86	2	20.69	4	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
	Hitoshi Saito	21.38	6	align=center colspan="6"	did not advance
	Kenji Fujimitsu	20.69	3	20.97	6	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
400 m	Yuzo Kanemaru	46.83	4	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
400 m	Hideyuki Hirose	46.80	7	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
5000 m	Yuichiro Ueno	14:30.76	16	align=center colspan="4"	—	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
10,000 m	Yuki Iwai	align=center colspan="6"	—	29:24.12	25
110 m hurdles	Tasuku Tanonaka	13.84	7	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
400 m hurdles	Kenji Narisako	49.60	5	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
400 m hurdles	Kazuaki Yoshida	49.45 PB	3	align=center colspan="2"	—	50.34	8	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
3000 m steeplechase	Yoshitaka Iwamizu	8:39.03	9	align=center colspan="4"	—	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
4 × 100 m relay	Masashi Eriguchi Naoki Tsukahara Shinji Takahira Kenji Fujimitsu	38.53	2	align=center colspan="4"	—	38.30	4
Marathon	Satoshi Irifune	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:14:54	14
	Masaya Shimizu	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:14:06	11
	Kazuhiro Maeda	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:19:59	39
	Arata Fujiwara	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:31:06	61
	Atsushi Sato	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:12:05	6
20 km walk	Koichiro Morioka	align=center colspan="6"	—	1:21:48	11
	Isamu Fujisawa	align=center colspan="6"	—	1:25:12	30
	Yusuke Suzuki	align=center colspan="6"	—	1:30:21	42
50 km walk	Yuki Yamazaki	align=center colspan="6"	—	DQ	—
	Koichiro Morioka	align=center colspan="6"	—	3:56:21	18
	Takayuki Tanii	align=center colspan="6"	—	DQ	—

Field and combined events

Event	Athletes	Qualification		Final
Event	Athletes	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Long jump	Daisuke Arakawa	7.53	22	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
High jump	Naoyuki Daigo	2.20	11	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
Pole vault	Daichi Sawano	5.55	5	5.50	10
Pole vault	Takafumi Suzuki	5.25	17	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
Javelin throw	Yukifumi Murakami	83.10 PB	1	82.97
Decathlon	Daisuke Ikeda	align=center colspan="2"	—	7788 PB	26

Women

Track and road events

Event	Athletes	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
Event	Athletes	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
100 m	Momoko Takahashi	11.75	4	align=center colspan="6"	did not advance
100 m	Chisato Fukushima	11.52	4	11.43	7	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
200 m	Chisato Fukushima	23.40	4	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
200 m	Momoko Takahashi	23.61	7	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
400 m	Asami Tanno	53.30	5	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
5000 m	Yurika Nakamura	15:21.01 PB	6	align=center colspan="4"	—	15:13.01 PB	12
5000 m	Yuriko Kobayashi	15:23.96	8	align=center colspan="4"	—	15:12.44	11
10,000 m	Yukari Sahaku	align=center colspan ="6"	—	33:41.17	20
	Kayoko Fukushi	align=center colspan ="6"	—	31:23.49	9
	Yurika Nakamura	align=center colspan ="6"	—	31:14.39 PB	7
100 m hurdles	Asuka Terada	13.41	6	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
400 m hurdles	Satomi Kubokura	56.91	5	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
400 m hurdles	Sayaka Aoki	1:03.56	7	align=center colspan="2"	—	align=center colspan="4"	did not advance
3000 m steeplechase	Minori Hayakari	9:39.28	10	align=center colspan="4"	—	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
4 × 100 m relay	Chisato Fukushima Momoko Takahashi Mayumi Watanabe Maki Wada	44.24	4	align=center colspan="4"	—	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
4 × 400 m relay	Sayaka Aoki Asami Tanno Mayu Sato Satomi Kubokura	3:34.46	8	align=center colspan="4"	—	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
Marathon	Yoshimi Ozaki	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:25:25
	Yoshiko Fujinaga	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:29:53	14
	Yuri Kano	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:26:57	7
	Yukiko Akaba	align=center colspan="6"	—	2:37:43	31
20 km walk	Masumi Fuchise	align=center colspan="6"	—	1:31:15	7
	Mayumi Kawasaki	align=center colspan="6"	—	DQ	—
	Kumi Otoshi	align=center colspan="6"	—	1:33:05	12

Field events

Event	Athletes	Qualification		Final
Event	Athletes	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Long jump	Sachiko Masumi	6.23	15	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
Pole vault	Takayo Kondo	4.10	15	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance
Javelin throw	Yuki Ebihara	54.81	12	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance

External links

Official competition website

Notes and References

http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=52560.html Japan assembles a 57 strong Berlin squad