KATSUKI Hayato

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	50km Race Walk
2019	Doha, QAT	27th (4:46:10)

Asian Games

Year	Location	50km Race Walk
2018	Indonesia	1st (4:03:30)

World Race Walking Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2018	50km Race Walk	World Race Walking Team Championships	Taicang, CHN	3:44:31
25	2017	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	A Corunya, ESP	1:25:37
27	2019	50km Race Walk	World Athletics Championships	Doha, QAT	4:46:10

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

Karaoke. (Twitter profile, 28 Feb 2020)

Armed Forces, Athlete

Physical Education - Tokai University, Japan

Wife Shiori, one son [2019]

Japanese

Japan Self-Defence Forces [JSDF] Physical Training School [Asaka, JPN]

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

He took up race walking while he was at Tokai University in Japan in 2010. (nikkansports.com, 15 Feb 2012)

He initially competed in running events, but persistent injuries forced him to stop while he was at university. He became an assistant manager with the athletics team in order to remain involved, until the race walking coach encouraged him to try the discipline. (nikkansports.com, 15 Feb 2012)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nikkansports.com, 31 Aug 2018)

In 2018 he received the Asaka City Excellent Athlete Award in Japan. (city.asaka.lg.jp, 23 Oct 2018)

In 2018 he was presented with a Special Citation Award by Onojo City in Japan. (mainichi.jp, 16 Oct 2018)