Yuta Sakiyama
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| Born | 5 April 1996 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Javelin | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Javelin: 87.16 m (Gumi, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Yuta Sakiyama (born 5 April 1996) is a Japanese javelin thrower who won the Japanese Athletics Championships in 2025. He represented Japan at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]In May 2023 in Osaka, he made a throw of 83.54 meters, the fifth-best in Japan's history.[2] He competed for Japan at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, but did not register a valid throw.[3][4]
He was a bronze medalist at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea in May 2025 with an 83.75m throw, a new personal best.[5][6] In July 2025, he won the Japanese Athletics Championships in Tokyo with a personal best throw of 87.16 metres. The throw also moved him to second on the Japanese all-time list.[7][8] He was subsequently named that month to the Japanese national team competing at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, throwing 77.61 metres without advancing to the final.[9][10]
Personal life
[edit]He is from Nara Prefecture. He attended Nihon University, after which he was based in Imabari, Ehime where he was coached by Hamamoto Kazuma, who previously trained Yukifumi Murakami.[11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Yuta Sakiyama". World Athletics. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ "Yuta Sakiyama wins javelin throw with 83.54m, fifth-best time in Japan history, and enters the race to represent Japan". Nikkansports.com. May 6, 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ "Men's Javelin Throw Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 25 August 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ "Top 10 Best Javelin Throwers In The World 2025". Nubiapage. 7 March 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ "Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem reigns supreme with javelin gold at Asian Athletics Championships". Arab News. 31 May 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ "26th Asian Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 27 May 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ "Japanese Championships". World Athletics. 4 July 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ "Yuta Sakiyama wins men's javelin throw with 87.16m, Japan's second-best throw ever, and secures a ticket to the World Championships at the Japan Athletics Championship". topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp. 5 July 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 Sep 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
- ↑ Kano, Shintaro (7 July 2025). "Japan name first athletes for World Athletics Championships; Kitaguchi Haruka eyes late August return at Diamond League Lausanne". Olympics.com. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ↑ "Aim for the Olympics! Javelin Throw Yuta Sakiyama". rnb.co.jp. Jan 7, 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
