KIRYU Yoshihide

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100m	4 x 100m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (10.23)	2nd (37.60)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m	4 x 100m
2019	Doha, QAT	SF (10.16)	3rd (37.43)
2017	London, GBR	-	3rd (38.04)
2013	Moscow, RUS	Heats (10.31)	6th (38.39)

World Relays

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

Asian Games

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

Asian Championships

Year	Location	100m
2019	Doha, QAT	1st (10.10)

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

Year	100m
2019	1 x 7th
2018	1 x 7th, 1 x 9th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
7	2019	100m	London, GBR	10.13
7	2018	100m	Rabat, MAR	10.20
9	2018	100m	Shanghai, CHN	10.26

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2020	100m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Tokyo, JPN	10.14

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2019	100m	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	10.01
4	2018	100m	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	10.17
5	2019	100m	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	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

Kiryu-chan, Jet Kiryu (YouTube channel, 01 Jan 2020; nikkansports.com, 19 Oct 2015)

Athlete

Law - Toyo University, Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Nippon Life Insurance Company [Japan]

Hiroyasu Tsuchie [national, personal], JPN; Shigeyuki Kojima [personal], JPN

2013 for Japan (jaaf.or.jp, 04 May 2014)

He was part of the Japanese team that won bronze in the 4x100m relay at the 2017 World Championships in London, England, despite suffering an injury to the back of his left thigh. (nikkansports.com, 14 Dec 2017)

He missed the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea, after suffering a pulled left hamstring. (nikkan-gendai.com, 05 Jun 2015; japantimes.co.jp, 22 Sep 2014)

He took up running during his first year at Rakunan Junior High School in Kyoto, Japan. (japanrunningnews.blogspot.com, 05 May 2013)

He initially played football, but he took up athletics after being influenced by his older brother. (koukouseishinbun.jp, 05 Oct 2012)

To make the 100m final and win gold in the 4x100m relay at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (yahoo.co.jp, 01 Apr 2020)

His training sessions last for three to four hours a day. In winter, he focuses on uphill sprint training. He runs 100m then 60m per set, and repeats four times with seven minutes of break between sets. (rikujyokyogi.co.jp, 15 Jan 2020; 4years.asahi.com, 20 Jul 2019)

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. (japanrunningnews.blogspot.com, 05 May 2013)

His high school coach Hiroyuki Shibata. (nikkansports.com, 19 Oct 2015)

He was part of the men's 4x100m relay team that won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2019 Japan Associations of Athletics Federations [JAAF] Athletics Awards. (sports.yahoo.co.jp, 05 Dec 2019)

In 2017 and 2019 he was given the Shiga Prefecture Citizen Sports Highest Merit Award in Japan. (kyoto-np.co.jp, 04 Dec 2019; pref.shiga.lg.jp, 04 Dec 2019; mainichi.jp, 25 Sep 2017)

He was presented with the Kyoto-fu Sports Special Merit Award in 2016, 2017 and 2019. (sanspo.com, 15 Oct 2016; nikkansports.com, 06 Nov 2017; asahi.co.jp, 22 Oct 2019)

In 2018 he received the Olympic Encouragement Award at the TV Asahi Big Sports Awards in Japan. (TV Asahi, 21 Jan 2018)

He received the 2016 and 2017 Kyoto Sports Highest Merit Award in Japan. (sankei.com, 12 Sep 2017; sanspo.com, 15 Oct 2016)

In 2015 he received an Excellence Award from the JAAF. (jaaf.or.jp, 16 Dec 2015)

He was named Best Newcomer at the 2013 JAAF Awards in Japan. (nikkei.com, 17 Dec 2013)