Yoshihide Kiryū

Yoshihide Kiryu

Kiryu at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1995-12-15) 15 December 1995 Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	100 metres
University team	Toyo University
Team	Nippon Life
Coached by	Hiroyasu Tsuchie
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 9.98 (2017) 200 m: 20.41 (2013) 60 m: 6.56 (2016)
Medal record Men’s athletics Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay World Championships 2017 London 4×100 m relay World Relays 2015 Nassau 4×100 m relay Asian Games 2018 Jakarta-Palembang 4 × 100 m relay World Junior Championships 2014 Eugene 4×100 m relay 2014 Eugene 100 metres

Yoshihide Kiryū (桐生 祥秀, Kiryū Yoshihide, born 15 December 1995) is a Japanese sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and holds Japan's 100 metres record, with a time of 9.98 seconds.

Born in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Kiryū played soccer while at elementary school and became interested in track and field at junior high school, as his brother took part in the sport.^[2] In 2011, he won the under-16 national title in the 100 metres at the National Sports Festival of Japan, with a time of 10.58 seconds.^[3]

The following year, Kiryū ran in the under-18 category at the same competition and broke the world youth best for the 100 metres by bettering Tamunosiki Atorudibo's record of 10.23 seconds by two hundredths of a second on 5 October 2012. Less than a month later, on 3 November 2012, Kiryū lowered his own record to 10.19 seconds.^[4] His time also eclipsed the Asian junior record.

On 29 April 2013, Kiryū (still a student at Rakunan High School in Tō-ji)^[5] ran at the Oda Memorial meet and tied the World junior record of 10.01 seconds co-held by Darrel Brown and Jeffery Demps. The IAAF subsequently rejected the inclusion of the time as an official record due to the use of unapproved wind-speed measurement equipment on the track.^[6]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Kiryū won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay.^[7]

On 9 September 2017, Kiryu sprinted off into Japanese athletics history by becoming the first man from his country to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters, running a 9.98 (+1.8) at an intercollegiate meet in Fukui. He finally realized a long-held Japanese dream by shaving 0.02 off the national record set by Koji Ito in 1998.

Personal bests

Records

• 100 metres
  • Former World junior best holder - 10.01 s (wind: +0.9 m/s) (Hiroshima, 29 April 2013)
  • Former World youth best holder - 10.19 s (wind: +0.5 m/s) (Fukuroi, 3 November 2012)
  • Former Asian junior record holder - 10.05 s (wind: +1.6 m/s) (Kumagaya, 17 May 2014)
  • Current Japanese and Japanese university record holder - 9.98 s (wind: +1.8 m/s) (Fukui, 9 September 2017)
  • Current Japanese junior and Japanese high school record holder - 10.01 s (wind: +0.9 m/s) (Hiroshima, 29 April 2013)
  • Current Japanese youth best holder - 10.19 s (wind: +0.5 m/s) (Fukuroi, 3 November 2012)
• 200 metres
  • Former Japanese high school record holder - 20.41 s (wind: +0.5 m/s) (Nara, 15 June 2013)
  • Former Japanese youth best holder - 20.70 s (wind: -0.4 m/s) (Nagoya, 21 October 2012)
• 4 × 100 m relay
  • Current Asian and Japanese record holder - 37.60 s (relay leg: 3rd) (Rio de Janeiro, 19 August 2016)^[a]
  • Former Japanese high school record holder - 39.64 s (relay leg: 4th) (Fukuroi, 3 November 2012)
• 60 metres (Indoor)
  • Current Japanese junior record holder - 6.59 s (Osaka, 9 February 2014)

^a with Ryōta Yamagata, Shōta Iizuka, and Asuka Cambridge

Competition record

References

External links

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Records
Preceded by Tamunosiki Atorudibo	Boys' World Youth Best Holder, 100 metres 5 October 2012 – 31 March 2017	Succeeded by Anthony Schwartz