Abdul Hakim Sani Brown twice clocked 10.06 seconds at the National Athletics Championships Friday to reach the men's 100-meter final with the fastest time. On the first day of the meet which doubles as a qualifier for the world championships in August in London, the ...
Ryota Yamagata, a member of Japan's silver medal-winning men's 4x100-meter relay team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, will withdraw from the upcoming Oda Memorial International due to a right ankle injury, a source familiar with the matter said Monday. The 24-year-old sprinter was scheduled to ...
The Japan men's 4x100-meter relay team stunned the world by capturing the silver medal at last summer's Rio de Janeiro Olympics. And that feat made its compatriots think the future is bright for the nation's sprinters for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and beyond. Stunning was ...
The team of Aska Cambridge, Yoshihide Kiryu, Ryota Yamagata and Shota Iizuka, which stunned the world by capturing the silver medal in the men's 4x100-meter relay at this summer's Rio de Janeiro Olympics, received the Athlete of the Year award at the annual Athletic ...
Wearing the official Japanese Olympic team uniform, a pinstriped sports coat and gray pants, and with silver medals hanging from their necks, the Japanese 4x100-meter relay team gave an impromptu demonstration of their baton-passing skills for a curious crowd of onlookers. They swung their ...
Two Japanese sprinters moved into the men's 100-meter semifinal round as medal favorites Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin cruised on the second day of the Rio 2016 athletics competition on Saturday. Aska Cambridge finished second in his heat behind Canada's Andre de Grasse, but his ...
Despite coming up short in the national championships, Olympic-bound sprinter Ryota Yamagata has high expectations for himself at the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Games. The 24-year-old, who finished runner-up to Aska Cambridge by 0.01 seconds for a 10.17 mark in the men's 100-meter final at ...
Aska Cambridge captured his first Japan national championships title on Saturday, recovering from a slow start in the men's 100 meters to overhaul Ryota Yamagata in the final meters and win by just 0.01 of a second. The Jamaica-born Cambridge ran 10.16 seconds in the ...
Everybody now talks about high school sprinting sensation Yoshihide Kiryu, recognizing the 17-year-old is the fastest current man in Japan. Well, it is perhaps arguable. Some may consider Ryota Yamagata is the nation's sprinting champ, because, even though Kiryu's has a better personal-best time (10.01 ...
As the sprinters took their marks at the starting line, the big Ajinomoto Stadium was almost completely silent. It was probably the sign of the audience's high expectations for a pair of young, rising track stars in Ryota Yamagata and Yoshihide Kiryu. The spectators wanted ...
