YAMANISHI Toshikazu

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2019	Doha, QAT	1st (1:26:34)

Asian Games

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2018	Indonesia	2nd (1:22:10)

Asian Race Walking Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	20km Race Walk	2019	Nomi, JPN	1:17:15
4	20km Race Walk	2017	Nomi, JPN	1:21:23

World Race Walking Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	20km Race Walk	World Athletics Championships	Doha, QAT	1:26:34
1	2019	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	A Corunya, ESP	1:17:41
1	2019	20km Race Walk	Asian Race Walking Championships	Nomi, JPN	1:17:15
4	2018	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Team Championships	Taicang, CHN	1:21:53
4	2017	20km Race Walk	Asian Race Walking Championships	Nomi, JPN	1:21:23

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Reading, particularly detective novels. (hochi.news, 06 Oct 2019)

Athlete

Engineering, Physics - Kyoto University, Japan

Japanese

Aichi Steel [Japan]

Takayuki Uchida [club], JPN; Fumio Imamura [national], JPN

2018 for Japan (tbs.co.jp, 30 Aug 2018)

He began athletics in grade seven of middle school. He switched to race walk in grade 10 at Horikawa Senior High School in Kyoto, Japan. (hochi.news, 06 Oct 2019)

He decided to take up the sport because he achieved good results when he participated in a marathon tournament in primary school. (aichi-steel.co.jp, 2019; hochi.news, 06 Oct 2019)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (joc.or.jp, 08 Nov 2019)

Competing at the 2012 Inter-High School Tournament in Niigata, Japan. (aichi-steel.co.jp, 05 Apr 2018)

His high school coach Kohei Funakoshi. (4years.asahi.com, 09 Jul 2019)

"Continuity becomes power." (aichi-steel.co.jp, 05 Apr 2018)

He received an Excellence Award at the 2019 Japan Association of Athletics Federations [JAAF] Athletics Awards. (city.nomi.ishikawa.jp, 27 Dec 2019)

In 2019 he was given a Special Award by the Chubu region Sports Journalists Club in Japan. (sanspo.com, 03 Dec 2019)

In 2019 he was presented with the Osaka-fu Special Honorary Award in Japan. (mainichi.jp, 18 Nov 2019)

In 2019 he received the Kyoto City Highest Sports Honorary Award in Japan. (kyoto-np.co.jp, 09 Oct 2019)

In 2016 he was given the Kyoto City Sports Award in Japan. (daigakujc.jp, 2016)

In 2013 he received the Nagaokakyo City Sports Award in Japan. (city.nagaokakyo.lg.jp, 21 Nov 2014)