Yoshihide Kiryu

Yoshihide Kiryu
Kiryu at the 2016 Olympics
nation	Japan
birthday	15th December 1995 (age 24)
place of birth	Hikone , Japan
size	175 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.98 s ( 100 m ) 20.39 s ( 200 m )
society	Tōyō University
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 0 × 2 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 4 × 100 m  World championships bronze London 2017 4 × 100 m bronze Doha 2019 4 × 100 m  Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 4 × 100 m Asian Championships gold Doha 2019 100 m  Junior World Championships silver Eugene 2014 4 × 100 m bronze Eugene 2014 100 m
last change: October 11, 2019

Yoshihide Kiryū ( Japanese 桐 生 祥 秀 , Kiryū Yoshihide ; born December 15, 1995 in Hikone ) is a Japanese athlete who specializes in sprinting .

Athletic career

Kiryu was on the local soccer team first, but his brother took him to athletics. Success quickly emerged here, so that in 2011 he became the Japanese U16 champion over 100 meters. A year later he was able to improve the U18 world record twice. At the national U18 championships in October 2012, he improved it to 10.23 s two months later he ran 10.19 s. At the same time, this was a new U20 Asian record over this distance.

On April 29, 2013 it ran in Hiroshima for 10.01 seconds. This would have been a new U20 world record (at the same time as Darrel Brown ), but the IAAF refused to accept it because devices used to measure wind did not meet international standards. Nevertheless, he qualified for the World Championships in Moscow , where he was eliminated in 10.31 s in the run and finished sixth in the final with the Japanese 4 x 100 meter relay.

At the Junior World Championships in Eugene in 2014 , he achieved bronze over 100 meters and silver in the sprint relay. In 2015 he was partially slowed down by injuries and could not take part in the 2015 World Championships in Beijing .

In 2016 he ran 10.01 s at the national college championships and was able to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro during this time . There he achieved his greatest success to date in the 4 x 100 meter relay. With 37.60 s he set up a new Asian record together with Ryōta Yamagata , Shōta Iizuka and Asuka Cambridge and won the silver medal behind the team from Jamaica.

At the 2017 World Championships in London , he won the bronze medal with the relay. On September 9, 2017, he set a new national record over 100 m at the national Japanese university championships in Fukui with 9.98 seconds. He is the first Japanese to run the 100 m under 10 seconds . After the Chinese Su Bingtian , he is the second native Asian to have achieved this feat. The following year he won the gold medal in front of the teams from Indonesia and China at the Asian Games in Jakarta with the Japanese relay in 38.16 seconds.

At the Asian Championships in Doha in 2019 , Kiryū won the title in the 100-meter run. At the end of September he reached the semi-finals at the World Championships in Doha over 100 meters , in which he was eliminated with 10.16 s. In addition, he won with the relay with a new Asian record of 37.43 s again the bronze medal behind the teams from the United States and the United Kingdom.

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 9.98 s (+1.8 m / s), September 9, 2017 in Fukui ( Japanese record )
• 60 meters (indoor): 6.56 s, March 18, 2016 in Portland
• 200 meters: 20.39 s (+1.5 m / s), March 23, 2019 in Brisbane

Web links

Commons : Yoshihide Kiryū  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Yoshihide Kiryu in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yoshihide Kiryū in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Diamond League profile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiryu junior world record not recognized
2. ^ Sprinter Kiryu Yoshihide Aims to Make History in the Men's 100 Meters
3. ↑ Andrew Mckirdy: Japan makes history with silver (en-US) . In: The Japan Times Online , August 20, 2016. 
4. ↑ Yoshihide Kiryu becomes first Japanese to break 10-sec 100m
5. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Samba sizzles 47.51 in Doha - Asian Championships, day 2 ( English ) IAAF. April 22, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.