Wataru Yazawa
Japanese hurdler (born 1991)
![]() Yazawa at the 2014 DécaNation (left) | |||||||||||||||
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Born | 2 July 1991 (1991-07-02) (age 33) Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
Event | 110 metres hurdles | ||||||||||||||
University team | Hosei University | ||||||||||||||
Club | Descente Track Club | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 60 m hurdles: 7.86 (Osaka 2015) 110 m hurdles: 13.47 (Tottori 2016) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wataru Yazawa (矢澤 航, Yazawa Wataru, born 2 July 1991 in Yokohama) is a Japanese track and field athlete who specialises in the 110 metres hurdles. He won the Bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Pune at the 110 m hurdles.[1] His personal best is 13.47 seconds, set in Tottori on 5 June 2016.
Personal bests
Event | Time | Wind | Venue | Date | Notes |
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60 m hurdles (Indoor) | 7.86 s | Osaka, Japan | 7 February 2015 | ||
110 m hurdles | 13.47 s | +1.4 m/s | Tottori, Japan | 5 June 2016 | Japan's 5th-fastest time |
Records
- 110 m hurdles (91.4 cm)
- Current Japan's junior high school record holder - 13.84 s (+0.6 m/s) (Marugame, 21 August 2006)
- 110 m hurdles (99.1 cm)
- Former Japan's youth best holder - 13.67 s (-1.0 m/s) (Bydgoszcz, 12 July 2008)
Competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 8th (sf) | 110 m hurdles (99.1 cm) | 13.67 (wind: -1.0 m/s) NYB |
2010 | World Junior Championships | Moncton, Canada | 7th | 110 m hurdles (99.1 cm) | 13.88 (wind: -2.4 m/s) |
2011 | Asian Championships | Kobe, Japan | 9th (h) | 110 m hurdles | 14.21 (wind: -2.1 m/s) |
Universiade | Shenzhen, China | 13th (sf) | 110 m hurdles | 13.97 (wind: +0.2 m/s) | |
2013 | Asian Championships | Pune, India | 3rd | 110 m hurdles | 13.88 (wind: +0.1 m/s) |
East Asian Games | Tianjin, China | 4th | 110 m hurdles | 13.73 (wind: -0.2 m/s) | |
2014 | DécaNation | Paris, France | 3rd | 110 m hurdles | 13.74 (wind: -0.1 m/s) |
2016 | Olympics | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 32nd (h) | 110 m hurdles | 13.88 (wind: -0.1 m/s) |
DécaNation | Marseille, France | 2nd | 110 m hurdles | 13.74 (wind: -0.1 m/s) | |
2017 | Asian Championships | Bhubaneswar, India | 8th | 110 m hurdles | 14.07 (wind: -0.6 m/s) |
National Championship
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2010 | Japan Championships | Yokohama, Kanagawa | – (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | DQ (relay leg: 4th)[2] |
2011 | Japan Championships | Kumagaya, Saitama | 1st | 110 m hurdles | 13.86 (wind: -0.1 m/s) |
Yokohama, Kanagawa | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.89 (relay leg: 1st)[2] | ||
2012 | Japan Championships | Osaka, Osaka | – (f) | 110 m hurdles | DQ[3] |
2013 | Japan Championships | Chōfu, Tokyo | 1st | 110 m hurdles | 13.59 (wind: +1.3 m/s) PB |
2014 | Japan Championships | Fukushima, Fukushima | 2nd | 110 m hurdles | 13.59 (wind: +0.4 m/s) =PB |
2015 | Japan Championships | Niigata, Niigata | 9th (h) | 110 m hurdles | 14.02 (wind: +0.4 m/s) |
2016 | Japan Championships | Nagoya, Aichi | 1st | 110 m hurdles | 13.48 (wind: +2.4 m/s) |
2017 | Japan Championships | Osaka, Osaka | 2nd | 110 m hurdles | 13.61 (wind: -0.2 m/s) |
References
- ^ Asian Athletics Championships: India slip to 6th. Rediff.com (2013-07-05). Retrieved on 2016-06-22.
- ^ a b Representing Hosei University
- ^ 2nd (sf) / 13.75 (wind: +0.5 m/s)
External links
- Wataru Yazawa at World Athletics
- Wataru Yazawa at JAAF (in Japanese)
- Wataru Yazawa on X
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Japan Championships in Athletics men's 110 metres hurdles champions
- 1915: Kazue Akashi
- 1916: Takeshige Takenaka
- 1917: Yoshio Suzuki
- 1918: Ichizo Okuyama
- 1919: Yoshio Kanari
- 1920: Kamaji Okubo
- 1921: Toshihiko Morita
- 1922: Sadaharu Shimoda
- 1923: Toshihiko Morita
- 1924: Not held
- 1925: Yukio Fukui
- 1926: Imachi Sickle
- 1927: Yukio Fukui
- 1928: Yoshio Miki
- 1929: Tsuruoka Tsuruoka
- 1930–32: Tatsuzo Fujita
- 1933: Kotaro Shimizu
- 1934–35: Murakami Tadashi
- 1936: Yonezu Noboru
- 1937–38: Murakami Tadashi
- 1939: Michitaka Kinami
- 1940: Akira Kawamura
- 1941: Not held
- 1942: Jun Tanaka
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946–48: Jun Tanaka
- 1949–52: Michitaka Kinami
- 1953: Takehiko Nakajima
- 1954: Peter Hildreth (GBR)
- 1955–56: Takehiko Nakajima
- 1957–62: Hirokazu Yasuda
- 1963: Marcel Duriez (FRA)
- 1964: Hirokazu Yasuda
- 1965–66: Yoshinobu Hamada
- 1967–68: Akira Tanaka
- 1969–70: Chikashi Watanabe
- 1971–72: Ken Miyashita
- 1973–74: Shigeo Oki
- 1975: Shuichi Dekai
- 1976: Kashiwazaki Katsumi
- 1977: Tetsushi Kenmochi
- 1978: Yoshifumi Fujimori
- 1979: Kashiwazaki Katsumi
- 1980: Yoshifumi Fujimori
- 1981: Noriyuki Takahashi
- 1982–83: Yoshifumi Fujimori
- 1984: Masuhiko Mizuno
- 1985: Masahiko Sugii
- 1986: Hiroshi Kakimori
- 1987: Masahiko Sugii
- 1988: Yuki Tehira
- 1989: Toshihiko Iwasaki
- 1990: David Nelson (GBR)
- 1991: Toshihiko Iwasaki
- 1992: Li Tong (CHN)
- 1993: Boxwood Yusuke
- 1994: Nobuaki Hogi
- 1995: Takahiro Matsuhisa
- 1996: Nobuaki Hogi
- 1997: Masanori Inoue
- 1998–99: Satoru Tanigawa
- 2000: Kimihiro Asami
- 2001: Masato Naito
- 2002–03: Satoru Tanigawa
- 2004: Tasuku Tanonaka
- 2005: Masato Naito & Satoru Tanigawa
- 2006–08: Masato Naito
- 2009–10: Tasuku Tanonaka
- 2011: Wataru Yazawa
- 2012: Kenji Yahata
- 2013: Wataru Yazawa
- 2014: Genta Masuno
- 2015: Shunya Takayama
- 2016: Wataru Yazawa
- 2017: Shunya Takayama
- 2018: Taio Kanai
- 2019: Shunya Takayama
- 2020: Taio Kanai
- 2021-23: Shunsuke Izumiya
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