Shunya Takayama

Shunya Takayama
nation	Japan
birthday	3rd September 1994 (age 25)
place of birth	Japan
size	182 cm
Weight	76 kg
Career
discipline	110 meter hurdles
Best performance	13.25 s
Trainer	Kenichi Sakurai
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Games bronze Jakarta 2018 110 m hurdles
last change: November 7, 2019

Shunya Takayama ( Japanese 高山 峻 野 ; born September 3, 1994 ) is a Japanese hurdler who specializes in the 110-meter distance .

Athletic career

Shunya Takayama gained his first international experience at the Junior World Championships 2012 in Barcelona , where he was eliminated with 14.06 s in the first round. In 2017 he finished fourth in the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar in 13.65 s and qualified for the World Championships in London , where he was eliminated with 13.65 s in the lead . The following year he took part for the first time in the Asian Games in Jakarta and won the bronze medal there in 13.48 s behind the Chinese Xie Wenjun and Chen Kuei-ru from Taiwan. In 2019 he finished fourth in 13.59 s at the Asian Championships in Doha . At the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama , he and Ayako Kimura , Masumi Aoki and Taiō Kanai won the silver medal in the hurdles pendulum relay, which was held for the first time. He also qualified for the World Championships in Doha, where he was eliminated in the semi- finals with 13.58 s .

In 2015, 2017 and 2019, Takayama became the Japanese champion in the 110-meter hurdles . He graduated from Meiji University in Tokyo with a law degree .

Personal best

• 100 m hurdles: 13.25 s (+1.1 m / s), August 17, 2019 in Fukui ( Japanese record )

Web links

Commons : Shunya Takayama  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Shunya Takayama in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bob Ramsak: On night of dramatic event debuts, US dominates - IAAF World Relays Yokohama 2019, day 1 ( English ) IAAF. May 11, 2019. Retrieved May 12, 2019.