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Daisuke Matsunaga (松永 大介, Matsunaga Daisuke, born 24 March 1995) is a Japanese male racewalking athlete who competes in the 20 kilometres race walk. He holds a personal best of 1:18:53 hours. He represented his nation at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was the 2014 World Junior champion.

He made his first impact at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships, taking a silver, then won the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics in a championship record of 39:27.19 minutes. He also took a silver in the junior race behind Gao Wenkui at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in China. Moving into the senior ranks he took bronze medals at the 2015 Asian Race Walking Championships and the 2015 Summer Universiade

He started 2016 with a win at the Asian Race Walking Championships. He was selected to represent Japan at the 2016 Summer Olympics and placed seventh in the final.

Personal bests

• 10,000 metres race walk – 39:18.04 min (2015)
• 10 kilometres race walk – 39:45 min (2014)
• 20 kilometres race walk – 1:18:53 hrs (2016)

All information from All-Athletics.

International competitions

References

1. ^ "Daisuke Matsunaga". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
2. Robinson, Javier Clavelo (25 July 2014). "Report: men's 10,000m race walk – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014". IAAF. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
3. Minshull, Phil (3 May 2014). "Gao provides hosts with first gold medal – junior men's 10km report Taicang 2014". IAAF. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
4. Matsunaga rebounds from recent disappointment to win in Nomi Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (20 March 2016). Retrieved on 14 August 2016.
5. "Daisuke Matsunaga". All-Athletics.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.

External links

• Daisuke Matsunaga at World Athletics
• Daisuke Matsunaga at JAAF (in Japanese)
• Daisuke Matsunaga at Olympedia (archive)
• Daisuke Matsunaga at Olympics.com
• Daisuke Matsunaga – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)

• 1995 births
• Living people
• Japanese male racewalkers
• Olympic athletes for Japan
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
• FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Japan
• Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
• Athletes from Kanagawa Prefecture
• 21st-century Japanese sportsmen