Shō Kawamoto

Shō Kawamoto
nation	Japan
birthday	1st March 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Japan
size	175 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 45.75 min
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Games bronze Jakarta 2018 4 × 400 m Asian Championships bronze Wuhan 2015 800 m
last change: November 3, 2018

Shō Kawamoto (born March 1, 1993 ) is a Japanese middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter run .

Athletic career

Shō Kawamoto gained his first international experience at the Junior Asian Championships 2010 in Hanoi , where he reached fifth place in the final. Two years later he took part in the Junior World Championships in Barcelona and reached the semi-finals there, where he was eliminated with 1: 50.17 minutes. In the following year, he took part in the Summer Universiade in Kazan , where he also reached the semifinals and took fourth place with the Japanese 4 x 400 meter relay. He then won the East Asian Games in Tianjin over 800 meters and won silver with the relay. In 2014 he took part in the Asian Games in Incheon for the first time, but was eliminated there with 1: 53.24 minutes in the first round. At the Asian Championships in Wuhan 2015, he won the bronze medal in 1: 50.50 minutes behind the Katari Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla and Jinson Johnson from India. The following year he qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he was eliminated in the first round with 1: 49.41 min .

In 2017 he again took part in the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar and this time finished ninth. At the Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018 , he finished seventh in 1: 50.87 minutes and won the bronze medal with the Japanese relay.

In 2013 and from 2015 to 2018, Kawamoto became the Japanese 800-meter champion. He graduated from Nihon University in Tokyo with a degree in human and sports science .

Personal bests

• 800 meters:: 145.75 s, May 11, 2014 in Tokyo ( Japanese record )
  • 800 meters (hall): 1: 47.78 min, February 3, 2018 in New York City ( Japanese record )

Web links

• Shō Kawamoto in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Shō Kawamoto in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )