Japan at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics

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Sporting event delegation

Japan at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics

WA code	JPN
National federation	Japan Association of Athletics Federations
Website	www.jaaf.or.jp
in London
Competitors	47 in 22 events
Medals Ranked 28th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 3
World Championships in Athletics appearances
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Japan competed at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, United Kingdom, from 4–13 August 2017.

Medalists

The following competitors from Japan won medals at the Championships.

Medal	Athlete	Event	Date
Silver	Hirooki Arai	Men's 50 km walk	13 August
Bronze	Shuhei Tada Shota Iizuka Yoshihide Kiryu Kenji Fujimitsu Asuka Cambridge*	Men's 4 × 100 m relay	12 August
Bronze	Kai Kobayashi	Men's 50 km walk	13 August

* – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final

Results

(q – qualified, NM – no mark, SB – season best)

Men

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Asuka Cambridge	100 metres	10.21	20 q	10.25	16	Did not advance
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown		10.05 PB	6 Q	10.28	19
Shuhei Tada		10.19	15 q	10.26	17
Shota Iizuka	200 metres	20.58	23 Q	20.62	16	Did not advance
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	200 metres	20.52	18 Q	20.43	10 Q	20.63	7
Takamasa Kitagawa	400 metres	47.35	45	Did not advance
Hiroto Inoue	Marathon	—				2:16.54	26
Yuki Kawauchi						2:12.19	9
Kentaro Nakamoto						2:12.41	10
Genta Masuno	110 metres hurdles	13.58	25 Q	13.79	20	Did not advance
Hideki Omuro		13.78	34	Did not advance
Shunya Takayama		13.65	32	Did not advance
Takatoshi Abe	400 metres hurdles	49.65	14 Q	49.93	14	Did not advance
Yusuke Ishida		50.35	28	Did not advance
Ryo Kajiki		51.36	31	Did not advance
Hironori Tsuetaki	3000 metres steeplechase	8:45.81	38	—		Did not advance
Shuhei Tada Shota Iizuka Yoshihide Kiryu Kenji Fujimitsu Asuka Cambridge*	4 × 100 metres relay	38.21 SB	6 Q	—		38.04 SB
Kentaro Sato Yuzo Kanemaru Kazushi Kimura Kosuke Horii	4 × 400 metres relay	3:07.29	15	—		Did not advance
Isamu Fujisawa	20 kilometres walk	—				1:20:04	11
Daisuke Matsunaga						1:23:39	38
Eiki Takahashi						1:20:36	14
Hirooki Arai	50 kilometres walk	—				3:41:17 SB
Kai Kobayashi						3:41:19 PB
Satoshi Maruo						3:43:03 PB	5

* – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Takashi Eto	High jump	2.22	=21	Did not advance
Hiroki Ogita	Pole vault	5.45	=18	Did not advance
Seito Yamamoto	Pole vault	5.30	26	Did not advance
Ryoma Yamamoto	Triple jump	16.01	29	Did not advance
Ryohei Arai	Javelin throw	77.38	23	Did not advance

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	110H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Final	Rank
Akihiko Nakamura	Result	11.06	7.28	11.37	1.96 SB	48.98	14.43	33.65	4.70	54.22 SB	4:22.62	7646	19
Akihiko Nakamura	Points	847	881	568	767	862	920	537	819	651	794	7646	19
Keisuke Ushiro	Result	11.53	6.64	13.43	1.96 SB	51.43 SB	15.35	47.64 SB	4.60	63.28	4:51.90	7498	20
Keisuke Ushiro	Points	746	729	693	767	750	808	821	790	787	607	7498	20

Women

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Rina Nabeshima	5000 metres	15:11.83 PB	18	—		Did not advance
Ayuko Suzuki	5000 metres	15:24.86	26	—		Did not advance
Mizuki Matsuda	10,000 metres	—				31:59.54	19
Ayuko Suzuki						31:27.30 SB	10
Miyuki Uehara						32:31.58	24
Yuka Ando	Marathon	—				2:31:31	17
Mao Kiyota						2:30:36	16
Risa Shigetomo						2:36:03	27
Ayako Kimura	100 metres hurdles	13.15	27 Q	13.29	23	Did not advance
Hitomi Shimura	100 metres hurdles	13.29	31	Did not advance
Kumiko Okada	20 kilometres walk	—				1:31:19	18

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Yuki Ebihara	Javelin throw	57.51	24	Did not advance
Risa Miyashita		53.83	29
Marina Saito		60.86	16

References

"Athletes by event and season best" (PDF). iaaf.org. Retrieved 2017-08-03.

v t e Nations at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Congo DR Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Brunei Cambodia China Chinese Taipei Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
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North America	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands United States U.S. Virgin Islands
Oceania	Australia Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tuvalu Vanuatu
South America	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Panama Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Other	Athlete Refugee Team Authorised Neutral Athletes

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