Japan’s Paris Paralympics representative Yumi Tanaka wins women’s 100m hurdles at Japan Athletics Championships, Asuka Terada places 6th in her last Japan Championships

Extract from The Yomiuri Shimbun

July 6 2025

TOKYO – The final day of the Japan Athletics Championships (sponsored by Yomiuri Shimbun), which also serves as the main qualifying tournament for the World Championships in Tokyo in September, was held at the National Stadium on the 6th, and in the women’s 100m hurdles, Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu), who represented Japan at the Paris Olympics, won in a time of 12.86 seconds. Hitomi Nakajima (Hasegawa Sports Facility) came in second with the same time but by a margin. The difference between first and second place was just three thousandths of a second. Mako Fukube (Nippon Kensetsu Kogyo), who currently holds the Japanese record (12.69 seconds), came in third with a time of 12.93 seconds. Neither event met the World Championships participation standard (12.73 seconds).