Daichi Sawano

Japanese pole vaulter (born 1980)

Daichi Sawano

At the 92nd Japan Athletics Championships in June 2008

Personal information
Born|  (1980-09-16) 16 September 1980 (age 44)
Osaka
Height| 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight| 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Country|  Japan
Sport| Athletics
Event| Pole vault

Medal record

Men's athletics
Representing  Japan
Asian Championships
| 2002 Colombo | Pole vault
| 2005 Incheon | Pole vault

Daichi Sawano (澤野大地, Sawano Daichi, born 16 September 1980 in Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka and raised in Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese pole vaulter.

His personal best is 5.83 metres, which is the current Japanese National Record (as of 2019/01/01) achieved in May 2005 in Shizuoka. Sawano is a three-time Olympian (2004, 2008, 2016), two-time Olympic Finalist, whose best finish was 7th at the Rio Olympics (2016).[1]

Sawano is currently coached by the staff at the University of Japan (Nichidai) and USA Track and Field National Pole Vault Chair, Brian Yokoyama. He was formerly coached by former Japanese record holder Teruyasu Yonekura and renown Japanese pole coach Yamazaki.

## Competition record

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Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes

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Representing  Japan
2002  | Asian Championships | Colombo, Sri Lanka | 1st  | 5.40 m
2003  | World Championships | Paris, France | 10th (q)  | 5.60 m
2004  | World Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 14th (q)  | 5.55 m
Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | 13th  | 5.55 m
2005  | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 8th  | 5.50 m
Asian Championships | Incheon, South Korea | 1st  | 5.40 m
2006  | Asian Indoor Championships | Pattaya, Thailand | 1st  | 5.60 m
World Indoor Championships | Moscow, Russia | 9th (q)  | 5.65 m
World Athletics Final | Stuttgart, Germany | 6th  | 5.65 m
World Cup | Athens, Greece | 2nd  | 5.70 m[2]
Asian Games | Doha, Qatar | 1st  | 5.60 m
2007  | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | – (q)  | NM
2008  | Asian Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 1st  | 5.45 m
World Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain | 10th (q)  | 5.65 m
Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 16th (q)  | 5.55 m
2009  | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 10th  | 5.50 m
Asian Championships | Guangzhou, China | 3rd  | 5.45 m
2011  | Asian Championships | Kobe, Japan | 1st  | 5.50 m
World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 14th  | 5.65 m
2013  | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 14th (q)  | 5.40 m
2014  | Asian Games | Incheon, South Korea | 2nd  | 5.55 m
2016  | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 7th  | 5.50 m
2019  | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 27th (q)  | 5.45 m

## References

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1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Daichi Sawano". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
2. ^ Representing Asia

## External links

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* Daichi Sawano at World Athletics
* Daichi Sawano at JAAF (in Japanese)
* Daichi Sawano at Olympedia (archive)
* Daichi Sawano at Olympics.com
* Daichi Sawano – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
* Daichi Sawano – Beijing 2008 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
* Daichi Sawano – Athens 2004 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)

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Asian Games champions in men's pole vault

* 1951–1954: Bunkichi Sawada (JPN)
* 1958: Noriaki Yasuda (JPN)
* 1962: Hisao Morita (JPN)
* 1966: Tetsuo Hirota (JPN)
* 1970: Kyoichiro Inoue (JPN)
* 1974: Yosuhiro Kigawa (JPN)
* 1978–1982: Tomomi Takahashi (JPN)
* 1986: Ji Zebiao (CHN)
* 1990: Liang Xueren (CHN)
* 1994–1998: Igor Potapovich (KAZ)
* 2002: Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)
* 2006: Daichi Sawano (JPN)
* 2010: Yang Yansheng (CHN)
* 2014: Xue Changrui (CHN)
* 2018: Seito Yamamoto (JPN)
* 2022: Ernest John Obiena (PHI)

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Asian Athletics Champions in men's pole vault

* 1973: Hisaki Suzuki (JPN)
* 1975: Yoshiomi Iwama (JPN)
* 1979: Itsuo Takanezawa (JPN)
* 1981: Tomomi Takahashi (JPN)
* 1983: Zhang Chen (CHN)
* 1985: Ji Zebiao (CHN)
* 1987–1989: Liang Xueren (CHN)
* 1991: Hideyuki Takei (JPN)
* 1993: Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)
* 1995: Hideyuki Takei (JPN)
* 1998: Igor Potapovich (KAZ)
* 2000: Zhang Hongwei (CHN)
* 2002: Daichi Sawano (JPN)
* 2003: Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)
* 2005: Daichi Sawano (JPN)
* 2007: Mohsen Rabbani (IRI)
* 2009: Liu Feiliang (CHN)
* 2011: Daichi Sawano (JPN)
* 2013: Xue Changrui (CHN)
* 2015: Zhang Wei (CHN)
* 2017: Ding Bangchao (CHN)
* 2019–23: Ernest Obiena (PHI)

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Asian Indoor Champions in men's pole vault

* 2004: Zhang Hongwei (CHN)
* 2006–08: Daichi Sawano (JPN)
* 2010: Mohsen Rabbani (IRI)
* 2012: Yang Yansheng (CHN)
* 2014: Hsieh Chia-han (TPE)
* 2016: Huang Bokai (CHN)
* 2018: Nikita Filippov (KAZ)
* 2023: Hussain Al-Hizam (KSA)
* 2024: Zhong Tao (CHN)

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Japan Championships in Athletics men's pole vault champions

* 1913: Gensabulo Noguchi
* 1914: Tomonosuke Tomita
* 1915: Hisao Masuda
* 1916: Yunosuke Miyoshi
* 1917: Gensabulo Noguchi
* 1918–19: Kenkichi Tajima
* 1920: Kametaro Shibakawa
* 1921: Hara Kohei
* 1922–23: Yonetaro Nakazawa
* 1924: Not held
* 1925: Sakio Morioka
* 1926: Yukio Kusaba
* 1927–28: Yonetaro Nakazawa
* 1929: Shuhei Nishida
* 1930: Kanemori Souta
* 1931–36: Shuhei Nishida
* 1937: Kiyoshi Adachi
* 1938: Sueo Ōe
* 1939: Atsuto Moriwaki
* 1940: Koichi Nakamura
* 1941: Not held
* 1942: Bunkichi Sawada
* 1943–45: Not held
* 1946: Hiroshi Tanaka
* 1947–54: Bunkichi Sawada
* 1955: Kosuke Furuhata
* 1956: Ryuji Nakayama
* 1957–58: Noriaki Yasuda
* 1959: Masashi Otsubo
* 1960: Noriaki Yasuda
* 1961: Yamada Yasushi
* 1962: Ron Morris (USA)
* 1963: John Pennel (USA)
* 1964: Masashi Otsubo
* 1965: Hisao Morita
* 1966: Kizo Uryu
* 1967: Tetsuo Hirota
* 1968–69: Kiyoshi Niwa
* 1970: Kyoichiro Inoue
* 1971–72: Kiyoshi Niwa
* 1973: Yoshiomi Iwama
* 1974: Kiyoshi Niwa
* 1975–76: Itsuo Takanezawa
* 1977: Yoshiomi Iwama
* 1978: Takumi Takahashi
* 1979: Kiyotaka Konishi
* 1980–81: Takumi Takahashi
* 1982: Cancelled
* 1983–84: Takumi Takahashi
* 1985–89: Toshiyuki Hashioka
* 1990: Igor Potapovich (URS)
* 1991: Akinao Kamiya
* 1992: Hideyuki Takei
* 1993–94: Toshiyuki Hashioka
* 1995: Hideyuki Takei
* 1996: Manabu Yokoyama
* 1997: Hideji Suzuki
* 1998: Fumiaki Kobayashi
* 1999–2000: Daichi Sawano
* 2001: Manabu Yokoyama
* 2002: Satoru Yasuda
* 2003–04: Daichi Sawano
* 2005: Satoru Yasuda
* 2006–09: Daichi Sawano
* 2010: Takafumi Suzuki
* 2011: Daichi Sawano
* 2012–13: Seito Yamamoto
* 2014: Daichi Sawano
* 2015: Hiroki Ogita
* 2016: Daichi Sawano
* 2017–18: Seito Yamamoto
* 2019: Masaki Ejima
* 2020: Koki Kuruma
* 2021: Kosei Takekawa
* 2022: Masaki Ejima
* 2023: Tomoya Karasawa

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