The three women who stood on the javelin podium at last year’s World Championships will take to the runway at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix. World Athletics Continental Tour Gold Conference – Sunday (19th) in Tokyo.
Highly popular world champion Haruka Kitaguchi will be cheered on by an entire stadium in the Japanese capital as she takes on Colombia’s Flor Dennis Ruiz and Australia’s Mackenzie Little.
Kitaguchi has won both events so far this year, throwing a season-best 62.97 meters at the Diamond League meet in Suzhou, with Little and Lewis taking second and third place, respectively.
But then Lewis won gold at the Ibero-American Championships with a South American world record of 66.70 meters, so the 33-year-old heads to the Japanese capital with confidence.
China’s Dai Chengqian and New Zealand’s Tori Peters, who won the Diamond League tournament in Xiamen, add further depth to the field.
Three other world title winners will compete in the men’s jump.
In the men’s long jump, 2022 world champion Wang Jian’an of China will take on 2016 world indoor champion Marquis Dendy. Dendy recently won just a centimeter over Wang in Suzhou, so a close race is expected in Tokyo.
However, in-form Australian champion Chris Mitrevski is undefeated so far this year, achieving a personal best of 8.32m at the Australian Championships and just winning in Osaka with 8.24m. Yuki Hashioka, who jumped 8.28 meters this year, has high hopes for Japan in this event, and Asian champion Lin Yutang (Chinese Taipei) is also one to watch.
South Korea’s Woo Sang-hyuk, the 2022 world indoor champion, is drawing attention to the men’s high jump field. So far this year, the 28-year-old has jumped 2.33 meters indoors to win bronze at the World Indoor Championships. Last weekend in Doha, he cleared a season-best 2.31m.
Australia’s Brandon Stark, American world indoor finalist Vernon Turner and Japan’s Asian Games bronze medalist Tomohiro Niino are also in the lineup.
In other field events, Japan’s Ryohei Arai and Dean Genki will take on Latvia’s Roland Strobinders and Patrick Gailams in the men’s javelin throw.
competitive hurdles
In the men’s 110m hurdles, Japanese record holder Rachid Muratake will face compatriot and Asian champion Toshiya Takayama, but Senegal’s Louis-François Mendy and America’s Eric Edwards will do everything in their power to prevent the hosts from winning. I will try my best.
Wiseman Mukhobe of Kenya has the same goal in the men’s 400m hurdles, joining World University Games sprint hurdles champion Ken Toyota, two-time national champion Kazuki Kurokawa and this year’s fastest Japanese athlete Kaito Tsutsue. to play against. The difference between the personal records of all four players is only 0.11.
Oceania record holder Zoe Hobbs is tied for fastest 100m woman, but Australia’s up-and-comer has performed well in high-quality competition, including winning the 200m in Xiamen last month. A lot of attention will be on the talent, Torrey Lewis.
Liberia’s Emmanuel Matadi and Japan’s Hakim Sani-Brown lead the entries in the men’s 100m. Canada’s Brendon Rodney will also feature in both this event and the 200m, and is expected to compete against Cuban record holder Reinier Mena.
Last year, Japanese record holder Kentaro Sato and his namesake Fuga Sato (but no relation) jumped to first and third place respectively on the Japanese 400m all-time record. They recently teamed up to qualify for the Olympics for Japan in the 4x400m at the World Relays in Nassau, but this Sunday’s race will be the first individual 400m run of the season.
The women’s 1500 meters will likely be the focus of the fall endurance events. Multiple Japanese record holder Nozomi Tanaka will take on Australian duo Georgia Griffiths and Sarah Billings. Both men set personal records of under four minutes in Xiamen last month.
In the women’s 5000m, Kenya’s in-form Margaret Akidolu will take on Australia’s Rose Davis.