Wataru Yazawa
SportTrack and field
Event110 metres hurdles
ClubDescente Track Club
UniversityteamHosei University
Birth date2 July 1991 (age 35)
Birth placeYokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Pb60 m hurdles: 7.86 (Osaka 2015)
110 m hurdles: 13.47 (Tottori 2016)

Wataru Yazawa (矢澤 航, Yazawa Wataru) is a Japanese track and field athlete who specialises in the 110 metres hurdles. He won the Bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Pune at the 110 m hurdles.[1] His personal best is 13.47 seconds, set in Tottori on 5 June 2016.

Personal bests

EventTimeWindVenueDateNotes
60 m hurdles (Indoor)7.86 sOsaka, Japan7 February 2015
110 m hurdles13.47 s+1.4 m/sTottori, Japan5 June 2016Japan's 5th-fastest time

Records

  • 110 m hurdles (91.4 cm)
    • Current Japan's junior high school record holder - 13.84 s (+0.6 m/s) (Marugame, 21 August 2006)
  • 110 m hurdles (99.1 cm)
    • Former Japan's youth best holder - 13.67 s (-1.0 m/s) (Bydgoszcz, 12 July 2008)

Competition record

Representing
2008World Junior ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland8th (sf)110 m hurdles (99.1 cm)13.67 (wind: -1.0 m/s) NYB
2010World Junior ChampionshipsMoncton, Canada7th110 m hurdles (99.1 cm)13.88 (wind: -2.4 m/s)
2011Asian ChampionshipsKobe, Japan9th (h)110 m hurdles14.21 (wind: -2.1 m/s)
UniversiadeShenzhen, China13th (sf)110 m hurdles13.97 (wind: +0.2 m/s)
2013Asian ChampionshipsPune, India3rd110 m hurdles13.88 (wind: +0.1 m/s)
East Asian GamesTianjin, China4th110 m hurdles13.73 (wind: -0.2 m/s)
2014DécaNationParis, France3rd110 m hurdles13.74 (wind: -0.1 m/s)
2016OlympicsRio de Janeiro, Brazil32nd (h)110 m hurdles13.88 (wind: -0.1 m/s)
DécaNationMarseille, France2nd110 m hurdles13.74 (wind: -0.1 m/s)
2017Asian ChampionshipsBhubaneswar, India8th110 m hurdles14.07 (wind: -0.6 m/s)

National Championship

2010Japan ChampionshipsYokohama, Kanagawa– (h)4 × 100 m relayDQ (relay leg: 4th)[2]
2011Japan ChampionshipsKumagaya, Saitama1st110 m hurdles13.86 (wind: -0.1 m/s)
Yokohama, Kanagawa2nd4 × 100 m relay39.89 (relay leg: 1st)[2]
2012Japan ChampionshipsOsaka, Osaka– (f)110 m hurdlesDQ[3]
2013Japan ChampionshipsChōfu, Tokyo1st110 m hurdles13.59 (wind: +1.3 m/s) PB
2014Japan ChampionshipsFukushima, Fukushima2nd110 m hurdles13.59 (wind: +0.4 m/s) =PB
2015Japan ChampionshipsNiigata, Niigata9th (h)110 m hurdles14.02 (wind: +0.4 m/s)
2016Japan ChampionshipsNagoya, Aichi1st110 m hurdles13.48 (wind: +2.4 m/s)
2017Japan ChampionshipsOsaka, Osaka2nd110 m hurdles13.61 (wind: -0.2 m/s)

References

  1. ^ Asian Athletics Championships: India slip to 6th. Rediff.com (5 July 2013). Retrieved on 22 June 2016.
  2. ^ Representing Hosei University
  3. ^ 2nd (sf) / 13.75 (wind: +0.5 m/s)