Toshikazu Yamanishi
Toshikazu Yamanishi (山西 利和, Yamanishi Toshikazu, born 15 February 1996) is a Japanese race walker.[1]
Career
Yamanishi won a gold medal in 20 kilometres race walk at the 2019 Asian Race Walking Championships in Nomi,[1] with a World Leading time of 1:17.15 (2019 season).[2]
At the 2019 and 2022 World Athletics Championships, Yamanishi won the gold medal in the 20 kilometres walk event, consecutively in 2019 and 2022.[3][4]
On 16 February 2025, Yamanishi won the Japanese 20 kilometres Race Walking Championships with a new world record of 1:16:10 to break the previous record of 1:16:36 set by Yusuke Suzuki in 2015.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Toshikazu Yamanishi Athlete Profile". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ "20 kilometres Race Walk". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ "20 kilometres Race Walk men. IAAF World Athletics Championships, DOHA 2019". iaaf.org. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ Odom, Joel (15 July 2022), "20k race walk winner at World Athletics Championships", The Oregonian
- ^ "Yamanishi breaks world 20km race walk record in Kobe", worldathletics.org, 16 February 2025
External links
- Toshikazu Yamanishi at World Athletics
- Toshikazu Yamanishi at JAAF (in Japanese)
- Toshikazu Yamanishi – Tokyo 2020 at JAAF (in Japanese)
- Toshikazu Yamanishi at Olympedia
- Toshikazu Yamanishi at Olympics.com
- Toshikazu Yamanishi – Tokyo 2020 at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
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