IKEDA Koki

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2019	Doha, QAT	6th (1:29:02)

Asian Race Walking Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	20km Race Walk	2019	Nomi, JPN	1:17:25

World Race Walking Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2018	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Team Championships	Taicang, CHN	1:21:13
3	2019	20km Race Walk	Asian Race Walking Championships	Nomi, JPN	1:17:25
6	2019	20km Race Walk	World Athletics Championships	Doha, QAT	1:29:02

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

Playing cards, watching films. (sponichi.co.jp, 16 Mar 2020)

Athlete, Office Worker

Economics - Toyo University, Tokyo, JPN

Asahi Kasei [Tokyo, JPN]

Mizuho Sakai [personal], JPN

His father Shigeru Ikeda competed in tennis at university level in Japan. His cousin Miyu Ikeda, also known as Michopa, is a model in Japan. (jiji.com, 17 Mar 2020; Michopa Instagram profile, 24 Jun 2020; olympicchannel.com, 30 Mar 2020)

He took up athletics in grade five of primary school, and began competing in race walking in 2015 during grade 11 of high school in Japan. (jiji.com, 17 Mar 2020; olympicchannel.com, 30 Mar 2020; rikujyokyogi.co.jp, 12 Jun 2018)

He initially began training in race walking in order to improve his performance for long-distance running events. He decided to focus on race walking in 2017, during his first year at university. (olympicchannel.com, 30 Mar 2020)

He received an Outstanding Award at the 2018 Japan Association of Athletics Federations [JAAF] Athletics Awards in Japan. (ita-track, 17 Dec 2018)