Wataru Yazawa
Appearance
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||
Born | 2 July 1991 Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | (age 33)||||||||||||||
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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Japan | |||||
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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Asian Athletics Championships: India slip to 6th. Rediff.com (5 July 2013). Retrieved on 22 June 2016.
- ^ a b Representing Hosei University
- ^ 2nd (sf) / 13.75 (wind: +0.5 m/s)
External links
[edit]- Wataru Yazawa at World Athletics
- Wataru Yazawa at JAAF (in Japanese)
- Wataru Yazawa at Olympedia (archive)
- Wataru Yazawa at Olympics.com
- Wataru Yazawa – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
Categories:
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Yokohama
- Athletes from Kanagawa Prefecture
- Japanese male hurdlers
- Olympic male hurdlers
- Olympic athletes for Japan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Japan Championships in Athletics winners
- Competitors at the 2011 Summer Universiade
- Japanese athletics biography stubs