Japan at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

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.

Japan at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
WA code	JPN
National federation	Japan Association of Athletics Federations
in Berlin
Competitors	57
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 2
World Championships in Athletics appearances
1983 1987 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2022 2023

Team selection

Track and road events

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

Field and combined events

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

Women

Track and road events

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

Field events

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

External links

• Official competition website