Yūta Shitara

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Yūta Shitara athletics

Shitara 2019 in Tokyo
Shitara 2019 in Tokyo

nation JapanJapan Japan
birthday December 18, 1991
place of birth Japan
size 167 cm
Weight 47 kg
Career
discipline Long distance running
Best performance Half marathon: 1:00:17 h.
Marathon: 2:06:11 h
society Team Honda
National squad since 2013
status active
last change: February 2, 2020

Yūta Shitara ( Japanese 設 楽 悠 太 , Shitara Yūta ; * December 18, 1991 ) is a Japanese long-distance runner . He is ranked 2nd in the all-time leaderboard of Japanese marathon runners .

Athletic career

Shitara attended Tōyō University in Tokyo and successfully participated in numerous Ekiden for the university team. He also made a decisive contribution to the victory of his university in the prestigious Hakone Ekiden . As part of the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, he started the half marathon and finished 20th in 1:08:25 hours. In 2014 he completed his studies in economics.

At the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, he competed in the 10,000 meter run and reached 23rd place. Over the same distance, he came in 29th at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

On February 26, 2017, Shitara made his debut on the marathon distance. At the Tokyo Marathon he finished eleventh in 2:09:27 hours. On September 16, he surprisingly ran a time of 1:00:17 hours at the Ústí half marathon in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic , beating the almost ten-year-old Japanese record of Atsushi Satō by eight seconds. Just eight days later he started the Berlin Marathon , where he finished sixth in 2:09:03 hours. In early December he won the 10-mile road race in Kōsa.

On January 21, 2018, Shitara led the Saitama Prefecture team to victory in the Ekiden National Championships as the final skier. Two weeks later he finished second in the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon in 1:01:13 hours. He finished second in the Tokyo Marathon and set a new Asian record with a time of 2:06:11 hours. He undercut the more than fifteen-year-old record of his compatriot Toshinari Takaoka by five seconds and secured a record premium of 100 million yen (around 760,000 euros ). In October he lost his record to Suguru Osako , who ran the Chicago Marathon 2:05:50 hours. At the Fukuoka Marathon , Shitara finished fourth in 2:10:25 hours.

In 2019, Shitara finished fifth in the Gifu Seiryū Half Marathon in 1:01:36 hours at the end of April. In July he won the Gold Coast Marathon in a course record time of 2:07:50 hours, which is also the fastest marathon time ever run on Australian soil. In September he took part in the Olympic qualification race of the Japanese Athletics Federation. From the start he left the entire field of runners behind and in the meantime built up a lead of over two minutes. In the second half of the race he had to pay tribute to his high starting pace, was overtaken by the chasing group at kilometer 37 and finally only finished the race in 14th place.

At the 2020 Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon, Shitara finished sixth in 1:00:49 hours. In the same race, Yusuke Ogura beat Shitara's Japanese half marathon record with a time of 1:00:00 hours.

Yūta Shitara runs for the company team of the Japanese automobile company Honda . His twin brother Keita Shitara is also a successful long-distance runner.

Web links

Commons : Yūta Shitara  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adharanand Finn: Hakone Ekiden: the greatest race on Earth? In: theguardian.com. January 8, 2014, accessed September 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Brett Larner: Toyo University's Shitara Twins Throw Out First Pitch at Lions-Eagles Game. In: Japan Running News. March 29, 2014, accessed September 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Brett Larner: Yuta Shitara Breaks Japanese Men's Half Marathon National Record in Berlin Marathon Tuneup at Usti nad Labem Half. In: Japan Running News. September 17, 2017, accessed on September 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Brett Larner: Shitara Wins Kumamoto Kosa 10-Miler. In: Japan Running News. December 3, 2017, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Brett Larner: Shitara Runs Down Defending Champ Nagano to Give Saitama 2018 National Men's Ekiden Title. In: Japan Running News. January 21, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Brett Larner: Saina and Waweru Win Windy Marugame Half. In: Japan Running News. February 4, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Jörg Wenig: Chumba and Dibaba win the Tokyo marathon, Anna Hahner has to give up early. In: Leichtathletik.de. February 25, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Farah and Kosgei notch convincing Chicago Marathon victories. In: IAAF. October 7, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ken Nakamura: Hattori claims upset victory in Fukuoka. In: IAAF. December 2, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Weekend road round-up: Chepngetich sets Japanese all-comers' record in Gifu, race records fall in Madrid and Krakow. In: IAAF. April 28, 2019, accessed on July 14, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Len Johnson: Shitara smashes Australian all-comers' marathon record on Gold Coast. In: IAAF. July 7, 2019, accessed on July 14, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Brett Larner: Nakamura and Maeda Win Japanese 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials. In: Japan Running News. September 15, 2019, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Ken Nakamura: Robinson and Johannes break national records to win Marugame Half Marathon. In: World Athletics. February 2, 2020, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Brett Larner: New Half Marathon NR Holder Yuta Shitara's Twin Brother Keita Joins Hitachi Butsuryu Corporate Team. In: Japan Running News. September 20, 2017, accessed September 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Shitara, Yūta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 設 楽 悠 太 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1991