YAMAGATA Ryota

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100m	4 x 100m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (10.05)	2nd (37.60)
2012	London, GBR	SF (10.10)	4th (38.35)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m
2013	Moscow, RUS	Heats (10.21)

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 100m
2019	Yokohama, JPN	Heats (DQ)

Asian Games

Year	Location	100m	4 x 100m
2018	Indonesia	3rd (10.00)	1st (38.16)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	100m
2019	Doha, QAT	7th (DNS)

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
11	2020	100m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Tokyo, JPN	10.42

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2018	100m	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	10.13
5	2019	100m	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	10.11

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

Fishing, cooking, playing the piano. (seiko.co.jp, 08 Jan 2020; keio.ac.jp, 14 Jun 2019)

Athlete

Policy Studies - Keio University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Seiko [Japan]

Daiki Takano [personal], JPN, from 2021

He missed three months of training after being diagnosed with patellar tendinitis in his right knee in September 2020 and was unable to compete at the Japanese national championships in October of that year. (the-ans.jp, 30 Apr 2021; Instagram profile, 10 Dec 2020)

In 2019 he was troubled by a punctured lung and pain in his right hamstring. In November 2019 he also tore a ligament in his right ankle. He decided not to undergo surgery in order to prepare for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and returned to competitive action in August 2020 after being sidelined for 15 months. (olympics.com, 22 Mar 2021; insidethegames.biz, 24 Aug 2020; nikkansports.com, 28 Jul 2020; seiko.co.jp, 08 Jan 2020)

He suffered an injury to his right ankle in 2017. (sports.yahoo.co.jp, 13 Apr 2018)

He was troubled by injuries to his hamstrings, hips and lower back from 2013 to 2015 and was unable to compete at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, People's Republic of China. (olympics.com, 22 Mar 2021; cyclestyle.net, 30 Jun 2016; sports.yahoo.co.jp, 12 Jan 2016)

He took up athletics at age 10 in Hiroshima, Japan. (ninomiyasports.com, 28 May 2013)

"In fourth grade I happened to participate in a 100m dash during a sporting event in Hiroshima. I somehow managed to win despite the fact that I was wearing sneakers and all the other runners had spikes on. The local track and field team immediately invited me to join them, which is when I really got my start as a runner." (keio.ac.jp, 14 Jun 2019)

To win gold in the 4x100m relay at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (tokyo2020.org, 20 Aug 2020)

His parents, and Japanese shogi player Yoshiharu Habu. (cyclestyle.net, 30 Jun 2016)

He was named Athlete of the Year at the 2016 Japan Industrial Track and Field Association Awards. (jita-trackfield.jp, 21 Apr 2017)

In 2016 he and his 4x100m relay teammates Yoshihide Kiryu, Aska Cambridge and Shota Iizuka received a Special Award at the Japanese Olympic Committee Awards in recognition of winning silver at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (cyclestyle.net, 12 Jun 2017)