2015 World Athletics Championships / Participant (Japan)

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The Japanese Athletics Federation nominated 51 athletes for the 2015 World Athletics Championships in the Chinese capital Beijing .

Medals

With a bronze medal won the Japanese team was ranked No. 32 in the medal count .

Medalist

bronze

• Takayuki Tanii : 50 km walking

Results

Men

Running disciplines

athlete	discipline	leader		Semifinals		final
		time	space	time	space	time	space
Kei Takase	100 m	10.15 s	25th	eliminated
Kenji Fujimitsu	200 m	20.28 s	13	20.34 s	15th	eliminated
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	200 m	20.35 s	20th	20.47 s	20th	eliminated
Kei Takase	200 m	20.33 s	18th	20.64 s	24	eliminated
Yūzō Kanemaru	400 m	45.65 s	37	eliminated
Kota Murayama	5000 m	14:07.11 min	32			eliminated
Suguru Ōsako	5000 m	13: 45.82 min	22nd			eliminated
Kenta Murayama	10,000 m					29: 50.22 min	22nd
Yūta Shitara	10,000 m					30: 08.35 min	23
Tetsuya Yoroizaka	10,000 m					28: 25.77 min	18th
Masakazu Fujiwara	marathon					2:21:06 h SB	21st
Kazuhiro Maeda	marathon					2:32:49 h	50
Takayuki Kishimoto	400 m hurdles	49.78 s	30th	eliminated
Yūta Konishi	400 m hurdles	49.58 s SB	28	eliminated
Yūki Matsushita	400 m hurdles	49.34 s	21st	51.10 s	24	eliminated
Isamu Fujisawa	20 km walking					1:21:51 h	13
Yūsuke Suzuki	20 km walking					DNF
Eiki Takahashi	20 km walking					1:28:30 h	47
Hirooki Arai	50 km of walking					3:43:44 h	4th
Takayuki Tanii	50 km of walking					3:42:55 h	bronze
Yūki Yamazaki	50 km of walking					4:03:54 h	34
Kazuma Ōseto Kenji Fujimitsu Takuya Nagata Kōtarō Taniguchi	4 × 100 m	38.60 s	10			eliminated
Tomoya Tamura Yūzō Kanemaru Naoki Kobayashi Takamasa Kitagawa	4 × 400 m	3: 02.97 min SB	15th			eliminated

Jump / throw

athlete	discipline	qualification		final
		Width / height	space	Width / height	space
Takashi Etō	high jump	2.22 m	28	eliminated
Yuji Hiramatsu	high jump	2.17 m	35	eliminated
Naoto Tobe	high jump	2.26 m	25th	eliminated
Hiroki Ogita	Pole vault	5.65 m SB	20th	eliminated
Seito Yamamoto	Pole vault	5.65 m SB	23	eliminated
Yohei Sugai	Long jump	7.92 m	16	eliminated
Ryōhei Arai	Javelin throw	84.66 m SB	2	83.07 m	9

Decathlon

athlete	discipline	100 m	Long jump	Bullet poking	High jump	400 m	110 m hurdles	Discus throw	Pole vault	Javelin	1500 m	Points	space
Akihiko Nakamura	Result	10.86 s	7.26 m	11.67 m	1.95 m	47.81 s	14.72 s	33.48 m	4.70 m	53.57 m PB	4: 16.36 min	7745	16
	Points	892	876	586	758	918	884	533	819	642	837
Keisuke Ushiro	Result	11.51 s	6.73 m	14.93 m	1.89 m	50.85 s	15.43 s	46.85 m	4.70 m	56.52 m	4: 43.51 min	7532	20th
	Points	750	750	785	705	776	798	805	819	686	658

Women

Running disciplines

Athlete	discipline	leader		Semifinals		final
		time	space	time	space	time	space
Chisato Fukushima	100 m	11.23 s SB	19th	11.32 s	23	eliminated
Chisato Fukushima	200 m	23.30 s	34	eliminated
Misaki Onishi	5000 m	15: 33.84 min	12			15: 29.63 min	14th
Azusa Sumi	5000 m	16: 13.65 min	22nd			eliminated
Ayuko Suzuki	5000 m	15: 28.18 min	11			15: 08.29 min PB	9
Kasumi Nishihara	10,000 m					32: 12.95 min	13
Rei Ohara	10,000 m					32: 47.74 min	22nd
Yuka Takashima	10,000 m					32: 27.79 min	20th
May Itō	marathon					2:29:48 h	7th
Sairi Maeda	marathon					2:31:46 h	13
Risa Shigetomo	marathon					2:32:37 h	14th
Kumiko Okada	20 km walking					1:34:56 h	25th
Seika Aoyama Sayaka Aoki Asami Chiba Kana Ichikawa	4 × 400 m	3: 28.91 min	13			eliminated

Jump / throw

Athlete	discipline	qualification		final
		Width / height	space	Width / height	space
Yuki Ebihara	Javelin throw	60.30 m	19th	eliminated

Web links

• List of all athletes with discipline (English)