YAMAMOTO Seito

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Qual. (NM)
2012	London, GBR	Qual. (NM)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2019	Doha, QAT	Qual. (5.60)
2017	London, GBR	Qual. (5.30)
2015	Beijing, CHN	Qual. (5.65)
2013	Moscow, RUS	6th (5.75)

Asian Games

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2018	Indonesia	1st (5.70)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2019	Doha, QAT	7th (5.51)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Pole Vault
2019	2 x 3rd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 10th
2018	1 x 9th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2019	Pole Vault	Stockholm, SWE	5.48
3	2019	Pole Vault	Doha, QAT	5.61
6	2019	Pole Vault	Oslo, NOR	5.61
9	2018	Pole Vault	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	5.60
10	2019	Pole Vault	Monaco, MON	5.62
11	2019	Pole Vault	Zurich, SUI	5.58

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2021	Pole Vault	World Athletics Continental Tour	Tokyo, JPN	5.55
1	2020	Pole Vault	World Athletics Continental Tour	Tokyo, JPN	5.60

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
3	2019	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	5.51
3	2019	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	5.51
3	2017	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Turku, FIN	5.46
3	2017	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Kawasaki, JPN	5.50
4	2018	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	5.40

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

Watching films, football. (sports.gazoo.com, 21 May 2017; Olympic Channel Instagram profile, 23 Jun 2020)

Athlete

Physical Education - Chukyo University, Japan

Japanese

Toyota Motor Corporation [Japan]

Fumiaki Kobayashi [personal], JPN

His father competed in sprinting and his mother participated in high jump at national level in Japan. (global.toyota, 02 Oct 2019; seitoyamamoto.com, 21 Feb 2020)

He won gold at the 2020 National Indoor Championships in Japan, despite suffering an injury to his left calf. (nikkansports.com, 02 Feb 2020)

In 2014 he missed three months of training due to an injury to the waist area. At the end of 2014 he was diagnosed with spondylolysis, which is characterised by a crack in part of the vertebra. (sports.yahoo.co.jp, 31 Mar 2014; global.toyota, 02 Oct 2019)

He took up pole vault at age 13, and began training seriously at age 15. (thepage.jp, 13 Aug 2013; sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp, 09 Aug 2013)

He was influenced by his parents who competed in athletics. He initially played football, but there was no team at his middle school so he joined the athletics team instead. A coach suggested that he take part in the pole vault training session. (sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp, 09 Aug 2013; global.toyota, 02 Oct 2019)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (global.toyota, 02 Oct 2019)

Japanese footballer Keisuke Honda. (Olympic Channel Instagram profile, 23 Jun 2020)

Coach Fumiaki Kobayashi. (global.toyota, 02 Oct 2019)

In 2019 he was presented with Best Athlete Award by the Japan Industrial Track and Field Association. (sanspo.com, 16 Apr 2019)

In 2018 he was given an Excellence Award at the Japan Association of Athletics Federations [JAAF] Athletics Awards. (gifu-np.co.jp, 05 Nov 2018)

In 2018 he received the Aichi Prefecture Sports Achievement Award in Japan. (pref.aichi.jp, 14 Feb 2019)