WALSH Julian Jrummi

Olympic Games

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (46.37)	Round 1 (3:02.95)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2019	Doha, QAT	SF (45.13)	Heats (3:02.05)

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 400m
2019	Yokohama, JPN	4th (3:03.24)
2017	Nassau, BAH	Heats (DNF)

Asian Games

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2018	Indonesia	5th (45.89)	3rd (3:01.94)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	400m	4 x 400m
2019	Doha, QAT	5th (45.55)	1st (3:02.94)

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
8	2020	400m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Tokyo, JPN	1:37.60

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2019	400m	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	46.29

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

Weight training. (sports.jp.fujitsu.com, 01 Jan 2020; Twitter profile, 27 Apr 2020)

Athlete, Office Worker

Health Studies, Sport Studies - Toyo University, Tokyo, JPN

English, Japanese

Fujitsu [Tokyo, JPN]

Tadashi Fukushima [club], JPN

His father Emanuel Walsh is a reggae musician in Jamaica. (jamaicaobserver.com, 14 Sep 2014; city.higashimurayama.tokyo.jp, 05 Jan 2017)

He began the sport seriously in 2012 in the 10th grade at Higashino High School in Iruma, Japan. (jamaicaobserver.com, 14 Sep 2014; olympicchannel.com, 10 Feb 2019)

He was inspired by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt after watching him win gold in the 100m at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on television. Although the athletics team at his middle school was dissolved due to a shortage of athletes, a teacher helped him continue with the sport. After joining an athletics team at high school, he was encouraged to focus on the 400m by his coach in the 11th grade. (olympicchannel.com, 10 Feb 2019; toyo.ac.jp, 01 Jun 2016; Yoshihide Kiryu Channel YouTube channel, 15 Nov 2019)

To set a Japanese national record in the 400m and to win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sports.yahoo.co.jp, 21 Aug 2016; nikkansports.com, 01 Aug 2020)

He suffered a muscle injury at the 2017 World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, and was sidelined for three months. (sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 21 Sep 2017)