Shota Iizuka

Shota Iizuka
Shōta Iizuka in Madrid 2017
nation	Japan
birthday	25th June 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Omaezaki , Japan
size	186 cm
Weight	81 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	Mizuno Track Club
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games 1 × 1 × 1 × Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 1 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 4 × 100 m  World championships bronze London 2017 4 × 100 m  Asian Games gold Incheon 2014 4 × 400 m silver Incheon 2014 4 × 100 m bronze Jakarta 2018 4 × 400 m  Universiade silver Kazan 2013 4 × 100 m bronze Kazan 2013 200 m  Junior World Championships gold Moncton 2010 200 m
last change: November 7, 2019

Shōta Iizuka ( Japanese 飯 塚 翔 太 , Iizuka Shōta ; born June 25, 1991 in Omaezaki ) is a Japanese athlete who specializes in sprinting .

Athletic career

Shōta Iizuka gained his first international experience at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Moncton , where he won the gold medal in 20.67 s. In addition, he finished fourth with the Japanese 4 x 100 meter relay in 39.89 s. The following year he took part in the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen for the first time, where he reached the semi-finals over 200 meters, in which he was eliminated with 21.02 seconds. In addition, he was disqualified with the relay in the run-up. In 2012 he qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in London , where he was eliminated over 200 meters with 20.81 s in the run and fourth in the relay in the final . At the 2013 Student World Games in Kazan , he won the bronze medal over 200 meters behind the South African Anaso Jobodwana and Rasheed Dwyer from Jamaica in 20.33 seconds . He also won the silver medal behind the team from Ukraine with the relay. He qualified for the World Championships in Moscow , where he reached the semi-finals in the individual competition and finished sixth with the relay in 38.89 s. He then won the relay at the East Asian Games in Tianjin and silver over 200 meters.

At the 2014 IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas , he finished fifth in the final. In October he finished fourth over 200 meters at the Asian Games in 20.87s, won silver behind China in the 4 x 100 meter relay and won the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3:01, 88 min. Two years later he qualified again for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . About 200 meters he retired in 20.49 s again in the lead , but with the 4-by-100-meter relay team he achieved his biggest success. With 37.60 s in the final , he put together with Ryōta Yamagata , Shūhei Tada and Asuka Cambridge a new Asian record, thus winning the silver medal behind the Jamaicans. At the World Championships in London the following year, he reached the semi-finals in the individual competition and won the bronze medal in the relay in 38.04 s in the final . In 2018 he finished sixth over 200 meters at the Asian Games in Jakarta and won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 01.94 minutes. The following year he took part in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the World Championships in Doha and was eliminated there with 3: 02.05 min in advance.

In 2013, 2016 and 2018 Iizuka became the Japanese champion in the 200-meter run . He completed a law degree at Chūō University in Tokyo .

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 10.08 s (+1.9 m / s), June 4, 2017 in Tottori
• 200 meters: 20.11 s (+1.8 m / s), June 26, 2016 in Nagoya

Web links

Commons : Shōta Iizuka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shota Iizuka in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Shōta Iizuka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stormy Kendrik finishes like a thunderbolt to win USA's first championships gold
2. ↑ Andrew Mckirdy: Japan makes history with silver (en-US) . In: The Japan Times Online , August 20, 2016.