On December 10, the 107th Japan Athletics Championships 10,000m race was held at the Tokyo National Stadium. This race is also the Japanese selection event for the Paris Olympics, and the men's and women's 10,000m (10km run) at the Paris Olympics are 27:0000 and 30: 4000。
Although no one succeeded in qualifying for the Paris Olympics, the results of this year's Japanese Championships can be described as quite impressive.
In the women's race, which started first, Ririka Hironaka took the first place with her performance in the sprint stage.
2. Japanese History VII 30:5529 won the Japanese Championships 10,000 meters three times in a row.
For a seventh-place finish at the World Championships in Budapest this summer, she only needs to run 30:40 before the window closes on 30 June00, you can qualify for the Paris Olympics.
Behind Hirochu, Yuka Takashima, Haruka Kokai and Rino Goshima each finished with 5883 ranked 2nd-4th, becoming the 6th-8th female player in Japanese history to open the 31-point mark.
Since 2002, when Yoko Shibui and Kayoko Fukushi opened the 31-point mark, eight women in Japan have been in 13 sub-31s, including 30-20The 44-year-old Japanese record holders, Hitomi Niiya and Yoko Fukushika, have three each, and Rika Hirochu has two each.
In contrast, China has 10 people 17 times sub-31 and has Wang Junxia 29:31The Asian record of 78 is the previous world record, but the last time the Chinese woman opened 31 points was at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, where Xing Huina and Sun Yingjie won 30:27:18 and 30:33 respectively53 finished fourth and seventh.
Since 2006, China's best time in the women's 10,000m has been 31:1494, set by He Wuxia in California in May this year.
In the men's race that followed, Kazuya Shiojiri also relied on the power of the sprint stage, 27:0980 set a new Japanese record and won the 10,000m championship at the Japanese Championships for the first time.
Tomoki Ota and Akira Aizawa each finished 27:1253 and 27:1304 followed closely behind, and the top three places all surpassed the 27:18 set by Akira Aizawa at the 104th Japan Championships in 2020With a Japanese record of 75, the trio can rank 9th, 14th and 17th in the world this year.
Ren Tazawa, who was the former second-time Japanese all-time, improved his personal best by 113 seconds, 27:2231 finished fourth, dropping to fourth place in Japan's history.
Ayumu Kobayashi 27:28No. 13 ranked fifth, becoming the 11th Japanese male player to sub-27:30 since Kota Murayama and Tetsuya Yoroizaka in 2015.
The top five finishes in this race are among the top five in Asia this season – in fact, the 10 fastest men's 10,000m runners in Asia this season are all from Japan.
This result is already ahead of Ren Longyun's 28:08 record set in 2007The Chinese record of 67 is almost a minute;After 2010, the best 10,000-meter result of my country's male athletes was set by Chen Tianyu in California in March this year, 28:2503, which can be ranked 15th in Chinese history.