Ryota Yamagata

Ryota Yamagata
Ryōta Yamagata in Moscow 2013
nation	Japan
birthday	10th June 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Hiroshima , Japan
size	177 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	Seiko AC
Trainer	Ken Nakata
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × Asian Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 2 × 0 × Youth World Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 4 × 100 m  Asian Games silver Incheon 2014 4 × 100 m gold Jakarta 2018 4 × 100 m bronze Jakarta 2018 100 m  Universiade silver Kazan 2013 100 m silver Kazan 2013 4 × 100 m  Youth World Championships bronze Brixen 2009 Sprint relay
last change: April 26, 2019

Ryōta Yamagata ( Japanese 山 縣 亮 太 , Yamagata Ryōta ; born June 10, 1992 in Hiroshima , Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese athlete who specializes in the sprint .

Athletic career

Ryōta Yamagata celebrated his first international successes at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Bressanone , where he reached fourth place in the 100-meter run in 10.80 s and won the bronze medal with the Japanese sprint relay (1000 meters). In 2011 he reached the semifinals at the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen and was disqualified in the first round with the 4 x 100 meter relay. In 2012, he qualified for his first for the Olympic Games in London , where he s over 100 meters with 10.10 in the semifinals was eliminated and the Japanese should have led to 38.35 s in the final fourth place occupied. The following year Yamagata won the silver medal over 100 meters and with the relay at the Student World Games in Kazan and qualified over 100 meters for the World Championships in Moscow , where he was eliminated with 10.21 s in the run. He then won silver over 100 meters at the East Asian Games in Tianjin and won the Japanese relay in 38.44 seconds.

In 2014 he finished sixth in the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea in 10.26 s and won the silver medal behind the team from China in 38.49 s. Two years later he qualified again for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he again reached the semi-finals in the individual competition and was eliminated there with 10.05 s. With the relay he set a new Asian record in the final with a time of 37.60 s and was able to leave the favored relay from Canada and the later disqualified US-Americans behind and thus won the silver medal behind the team from Jamaica. In 2018 he again took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta , won the bronze medal over 100 meters in 10.00 s and won the relay in 38.16 s. At the 2019 Asian Championships in Doha, he made it over 100 meters to the finals, in which he could no longer compete.

In 2013 and 2018, Yamagata became the Japanese 100-meter champion. He completed a degree in political science at Keiō University in Tokyo .

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.00 s (+0.2 m / s), September 24, 2017 in Osaka
  • 60 meters (hall): 6.71 s, February 5, 2011 in Osaka
• 200 meters: 20.41 s (−0.5 m / s), May 26, 2018 in Yokohama

Web links

Commons : Ryota Yamagata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ryota Yamagata in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ryōta Yamagata in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Track legend Bolt, other sprint stars praise Japan relay foursome's teamwork