Shunya Takayama
Appearance
![]() Shunya Takayama in 2017 | |
Personal information | |
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Born | Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan | 3 September 1994
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] |
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | 110 metres hurdles |
Club | Zenrin |
Shunya Takayama (高山 峻野, Takayama Shun'ya, born 3 September 1994) is a Japanese athlete specialising in the high hurdles.[2] He represented his country at the 2017 World Championships without advancing from the first round. In addition, he won a bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games.
His personal best in the 110 metres hurdles was 13.25 seconds (+1.1 m/s), former National record and the current second best record in Japan, set in Fukui in 2019.,[3] he improved it at 13.10 s (+0.6), in Hiratsuka on 6 August 2022.
International competitions
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2012 | World Junior Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 29th (h) | 110 m hurdles (99 cm) | 14.06 |
2017 | Asian Championships | Bhubaneswar, India | 4th | 110 m hurdles | 13.65 |
World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 32nd (h) | 110 m hurdles | 13.65 | |
2018 | Asian Games | Jakarta, Indonesia | 3rd | 110 m hurdles | 13.48 |
2019 | Asian Championships | Doha, Qatar | 4th | 110 m hurdles | 13.59 |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 17th (sf) | 110 m hurdles | 13.58 | |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 35th (h) | 110 m hurdles | 13.98 |
2023 | Asian Championships | Bangkok, Thailand | 1st | 110 m hurdles | 13.29 |
World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 13th (sf) | 110 m hurdles | 13.34 | |
Asian Games | Hangzhou, China | 1st | 110 m hurdles | 13.41 |
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Shunya Takayama at World Athletics
- Shunya Takayama at the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (in Japanese)
- Shunya Takayama at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1994 births
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- Japanese male hurdlers
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
- Sportspeople from Hiroshima Prefecture
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Olympic male hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Japan
- Asian Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen
- Japanese athletics biography stubs