Yuko Nohara, World Youth bronze medallist, started to chase Iwamoto and caught up with her by 3000m (9:26). By 2400m she started to breake away from the lead pack. Iwamoto set steady even pace, passing 1000m in 3:09, and 2000m in 6:17. In the women’s 5000m, Chiaki Iwamoto who won the national junior title two years ago defeated the defending national junior champion Yuko Nohara. If Minamino wants to do well in the World Junior Championships she needs to recapture the earlier form soon. For Minamino who has recorded 4.10m this season, 3.80m should have been a routine height. However, having missed badly twice at 3.80m, she barely cleared it on her third attempt. Yayoi Minamino won the women’s Pole Vault as expected. It was not only the national junior record, but also the national 400m record. After winning the national championships at 400m, Tanno recorded 52.88 in the Asian Junior Championships in Malaysia. This year, Tanno started off the indoor season auspiciously by setting a national junior indoor record at 200m. Last summer Tanno, won the national junior championships at 400m and then followed it up with the double victory at both the 200m and 400m in the national inter-high school championships. The reigning national champion and national record holder Asami Tanno led from start to finish to win the women’s 400m by 1.88 seconds. “Whereas she took 60 steps last year, she can now cover 100m in 57 steps.” “Her biomechanic made dramatic improvement this year,” says her coach. She led from wire to wire to win the national junior championships for the second consecutive year. The 2000 national junior high school and 2003 national inter-high school champion at 100m, Saori Kitakaze dominated the women’s 100m as expected. Imai is also the reigning national inter-high school champion at Long Jump, having defeated the 2003 World Youth Champion Naohiro Shinada in the epic competition (after Shinada took the lead in the fifth round with 7.69m, Imai jumped 7.70m in the sixth round) last August. Yuki Imai won the Long Jump at the national junior championships for the third year in a row. These include Yoshihiro Shimodaira in the 800m, Yuki Imai in the Long Jump, Koki Imoto in the Shot Put, Kazunori Onitsuka in the Javelin Throw, Saori Kitakaze in the women’s 100m, Asami Tanno in the women’s 400m, Yayoi Minamino in the women’s Pole Vault, and Chiharu Yamamoto in the women’s Triple Jump. She thus made an improvement of over two metres on the previous record of 50.78m.Įight athletes successfully defended the title they won last year. Miki Yamashiro, best high school Hammer and Discus thrower in the nation, won the women’s hammer throw with a national high school record of 52.95m, thus improving her own high school record 52.94m, which was set in April. At the time Ikeda said, “My goal was to score 7000 points, which would qualify me for the national senior championship.” It was not to be, but last weekend he has reached his other goal, that of setting the high school decathlon record. He improved his score to 6862 in May, which was second highest score by a high school student. Ikeda, who was 14th in the Octathlon at the 2003 World Youth Championships, made his Decathlon debut in November 2003, scoring 6714 points. In the Decathlon, Daisuke Ikeda, one of the most promising all-round athletes, set a national junior record of 7145 points, improving the record of 7076, which was set by Akira Kano in the 2002 Asian Junior Championships. In the process he improved the national junior record (with 6Kg hammer) to 65.36m, improving the previous record, 65.15m, set by Nobuhiko Sugimura in the 2003 national junior championships. Akira Endo, who leads the junior performance list this season, won the men’s Hammer. In addition, a national high school record was set in the women’s hammer throw. Two national junior records were set – in the men’s Hammer Throw and Decathlon. The annual championships have special meaning this year as the selection of the Japanese team for the upcoming IAAF World Junior Championships is largely determined from the results of these championships. The Japanese Junior Championships were held in the Universiade Stadium in Kobe, the site of 1985 World University Games.
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