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Japanese sprinter (born 1992)

Ryota Yamagata

Yamagata at the 2013 World Championships

Personal information

Nationality

Japan

Born

(1992-06-10) 10 June 1992 (age 32)
Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)

Weight

154 lb (70 kg)

Sport

Country

Japan

Sport

Athletics

Event

Sprints

University team

Keio University

Club

Seiko AC

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s)

60 m: 6.62 (Osaka 2016)
100 m: 9.95 (Tottori 2021)
200 m: 20.41 (Yokohama 2013)

Medal record

Olympic Games

	2016 Rio de Janeiro	4×100 m relay
Summer Universiade
	2013 Kazan	100 m
	2013 Kazan	4×100 m relay
Asian Games
	2014 Incheon	4×100 m relay
	2018 Jakarta-Palembang	4 × 100 m relay
	2018 Jakarta-Palembang	100 m
East Asian Games
	2013 Tianjin	4×100 m relay
	2013 Tianjin	100 m
World Youth Championships
	2009 Brixen	Medley relay

Ryota Yamagata (山縣亮太, Yamagata Ryōta, born 10 June 1992) is a Japanese sprinter holding the Japanese record of 9.95 in the 100m.

He won the bronze medal in the medley relay at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics.

In the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Yamagata was part of the 4 × 100 m relay team for Japan, which took the silver medal in the final.

He served as the captain of Japan's team at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.

Personal bests

Event	Time	Wind	Venue	Date	Notes
Outdoor
100 m	09.95 s	+2.0 m/s	Tottori, Japan	6 June 2021	Japanese record
200 m	20.41 s	−0.5 m/s	Yokohama, Japan	26 May 2013
Indoor
60 m	6.62 s		Osaka, Japan	13 March 2016

Records

100 metres
- Current Japanese record holder - 9.95 s (wind: +2.0 m/s) (Tottori, 6 June 2021)
- Former Japanese junior record holder – 10.23 s (wind: +1.8 m/s) (Yamaguchi, 8 October 2011)
4 × 100 m relay
- Current Asian and Japanese record holder – 37.60 s (relay leg: 1st) (Rio de Janeiro, 19 August 2016)
- Current Japanese university record holder – 38.44 s (relay leg:1st) (Tianjin, 9 October 2013)
60 metres (Indoor)
- Former Japanese junior record holder – 6.71 s (Osaka, 5 February 2011)

with Shōta Iizuka, Yoshihide Kiryū, and Asuka Cambridge

with Shōta Iizuka, Asuka Cambridge, and Kazuma Ōseto

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2009	World Youth Championships	Brixen, Italy	4th	100 m	10.80 (wind: -1.2 m/s)
2009	World Youth Championships	Brixen, Italy	3rd	Medley relay	1:52.82 (relay leg: 2nd)
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	13th (sf)	100 m	10.10 (wind: +1.7 m/s)
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	4th	4 × 100 m relay	38.35 (relay leg: 1st)
2013	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	2nd	100 m	10.21 (wind: +0.5 m/s)
	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	39.12 (relay leg: 1st)
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	22nd (h)	100 m	10.21 (wind: -0.4 m/s)
	East Asian Games	Tianjin, China	2nd	100 m	10.31 (wind: -0.1 m/s)
	East Asian Games	Tianjin, China	1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.44 (relay leg: 1st) GR, NUR
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	6th	100 m	10.26 (wind: +0.4 m/s)
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	38.49 (relay leg: 1st)
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	11th (sf)	100 m	10.05 (wind: +0.2 m/s) PB
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	37.60 (relay leg: 1st) AR
2018	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	2nd	100 m	10.00 (wind: +0.4 m/s)
2018	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.16 (relay leg: 1st)
2019	Asian Championships	Doha, Qatar	4th (sf)	100 m	10.18 (wind: +1.2 m/s)
2019	World Relays	Yokohama, Japan	–	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	24th (h)	100 m	10.15 (wind: +0.1 m/s)
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	9th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	38.16 (relay leg: 2nd)

Did not start in the final
Did not finish in the final

National Championship

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2011	Japan Championships	Kumagaya, Saitama	4th	100 m	10.52 (wind: -0.5 m/s)
2011	Japan Championships	Kumagaya, Saitama	6th	200 m	20.84 (wind: 0.0 m/s)
2012	Japan Championships	Osaka, Osaka	3rd	100 m	10.34 (wind: 0.0 m/s)
2013	Japan Championships	Chōfu, Tokyo	1st	100 m	10.11 (wind: +0.7 m/s)
2014	Japan Championships	Fukushima, Fukushima	2nd	100 m	10.27 (wind: +0.6 m/s)
2015	Japan Championships	Niigata, Niigata	– (sf)	100 m	DNS
2016	Japan Championships	Nagoya, Aichi	2nd	100 m	10.17 (wind: -0.3 m/s)
2017	Japan Championships	Osaka, Osaka	6th	100 m	10.39 (wind: +0.6 m/s)

References

^ "Ryota Yamagata - Player Profile - Athletics". Eurosport.com. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
Ryota Yamagata 9.95 sec Japan National Record. 6 June 2021 – via YouTube.
"NameBright - Coming Soon". Singaporeathletics.com. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
Mckirdy, Andrew (20 August 2016). "Bolt completes triple-triple with Jamaica's gold in 4×100 relay; Japan makes history by taking silver". The Japan Times. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
"Japan names captain and vice-captain of national team for Tokyo 2020". Olympics.com. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
24th (h) / 10.60 (wind: +0.7 m/s)

External links

Ryota Yamagata at World Athletics
Ryota Yamagata at JAAF (in Japanese)
Ryota Yamagata – Tokyo 2020 at JAAF (in Japanese)
Ryota Yamagata at Olympedia (archive)
Ryota Yamagata at Olympics.com
Ryota Yamagata – Tokyo 2020 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
Ryota Yamagata – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
Ryota Yamagata – London 2012 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)

v t e Japan Championships in Athletics men's 100 metres champions
1913–14 Kazue Akashi 1915 Yuzo Saito 1916 Shinpei Higashiguchi 1917 Sasago Tani 1918 Tsunemasa Matsuda 1919 Munetoshi Date 1920 Kunio Hiraoka 1921 Masayuki Takagi 1922–23 Sasago Tani 1924: Not held 1925 Sasago Tani 1926 Sadao Tajima 1927 Takeuchi Heizo 1928 Iwao Aizawa 1929 Sakae Yano 1930 Chūhei Nambu 1931–32 Takayoshi Yoshioka 1933 Chūhei Nambu 1934 Mutsuo Taniguchi 1935 Takayoshi Yoshioka 1936 Kanayuzawa 1937 Masao Yazawa 1938–40 Takayoshi Yoshioka 1941: Not held 1942 Toshihiro Osada 1943–45: Not held 1946 Nitawaki Isao 1947 Ichita Ikoma 1948 Nitawaki Isao 1949 Ichita Ikoma 1950 Tomio Hosoda 1951 Toshihiro Ohashi 1952 Herb McKenley (JAM) 1953 Ken Nakajima 1954–55 Kiyofuji Akira 1956–58 Kyohei Ushio 1959 Takeo Tamura 1960 Yojiro Muro 1961 Takeo Tamura 1962 Sergio Ottolina (ITA) 1963 Enrique Figuerola (CUB) 1964 Masaru Kamata 1965 Naoki Abe 1966 Toru Honda 1967 Junji Ishikawa 1968–71 Masahide Jinno 1972 Takao Ishizawa 1973–75 Masahide Jinno 1976 Tasaki Hiromichi 1977 Toshio Toyota 1978 Akira Harada 1979 Toshio Toyota 1980 Yasuhiro Harada 1981–82 Yoshihiro Shimizu 1983 Hirofumi Miyazaki 1984 Kaoru Matsubara 1985–86 Hirofumi Miyazaki 1987 Kaoru Matsubara 1988 Takahiko Kasahara 1989 Shinji Aoto 1990 Robson da Silva (BRA) 1991 Bruny Surin (CAN) 1992 Hisatsugu Suzuki 1993–94 Satoru Inoue 1995 Yoshitaka Ito 1996–97 Nobuharu Asahara 1998 Koji Ito 1999 Hiroyasu Tsuchie 2000–02 Nobuharu Asahara 2003–04 Shingo Suetsugu 2005 Shinya Saburi 2006–08 Naoki Tsukahara 2009–12 Masashi Eriguchi 2013 Ryota Yamagata 2014 Yoshihide Kiryū 2015 Kei Takase 2016 Asuka Cambridge 2017 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 2018 Ryota Yamagata 2019 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 2020 Yoshihide Kiryū 2021 Shuhei Tada 2022 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 2023–24 Ryuichiro Sakai

Japan Championships in Athletics men's 100 metres champions

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