Shunya Takayama

Japanese hurdler (born 1994)

Shunya Takayama

Shunya Takayama in 2017

Personal information
Born|  (1994-09-03) 3 September 1994 (age 29)
Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Height| 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight| 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport| Athletics
Event| 110 metres hurdles
Club| Zenrin

Shunya Takayama (高山 峻野, Takayama Shun'ya, born 3 September 1994) is a Japanese athlete specialising in the high hurdles.[2] He represented his country at the 2017 World Championships without advancing from the first round. In addition, he won a bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games.

His personal best in the 110 metres hurdles was 13.25 seconds (+1.1 m/s), former National record and the current second best record in Japan, set in Fukui in 2019.[3], he improved it at 13.10 s (+0.6), in Hiratsuka on 6 August 2022.

## International competitions

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Representing  Japan
2012  | World Junior Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 29th (h)  | 110 m hurdles (99 cm)  | 14.06
2017  | Asian Championships | Bhubaneswar, India | 4th  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.65
World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 32nd (h)  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.65
2018  | Asian Games | Jakarta, Indonesia | 3rd  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.48
2019  | Asian Championships | Doha, Qatar | 4th  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.59
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 17th (sf)  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.58
2021  | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 35th (h)  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.98
2023  | Asian Championships | Bangkok, Thailand | 1st  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.29
World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 13th (sf)  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.34
Asian Games | Hangzhou, China | 1st  | 110 m hurdles  | 13.41

## References

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1. ^ JAAF profile
2. ^ Shunya Takayama at World Athletics
3. ^ All-Athletics profile

## External links

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* Shunya Takayama at World Athletics
* Shunya Takayama at the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (in Japanese)
* Shunya Takayama at Olympedia

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Asian Games champions in men's 110 metres hurdles

* 1951: Ng Liang Chiang (SIN)
* 1954: Sarwan Singh (IND)
* 1958: Ghulam Raziq (PAK)
* 1962: Mohammad Sarengat (INA)
* 1966: Ghulam Raziq (PAK)
* 1970: Chikashi Watanabe (JPN)
* 1974: Zui Linni (CHN)
* 1978: Wang Xunhua (CHN)
* 1982: Yoshifumi Fujimori (JPN)
* 1986–90: Yu Zhicheng (CHN)
* 1994: Li Tong (CHN)
* 1998: Chen Yanhao (CHN)
* 2002–10: Liu Xiang (CHN)
* 2014–18: Xie Wenjun (CHN)
* 2022: Yaqoub Al-Youha (KUW) & Shunya Takayama (JPN)

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Asian Athletics Champions in men's 110 metres hurdles

* 1973: Shigeo Oki (JPN)
* 1975: Tai Shi-Yan (TPE)
* 1979–81: Yoshifumi Fujimori (JPN)
* 1983: Wu Chin-jing (TPE)
* 1985: Yu Zhicheng (CHN)
* 1987: Yang Guang (CHN)
* 1989: Yu Zhicheng (CHN)
* 1991: Nur Herman Majid (MAS)
* 1993: Li Tong (CHN)
* 1995–98: Chen Yanhao (CHN)
* 2000: Mubarak Ata Mubarak (KSA)
* 2002: Liu Xiang (CHN)
* 2003: Shi Dongpeng (CHN)
* 2005: Liu Xiang (CHN)
* 2007: Tasuku Tanonaka (JPN)
* 2009–11: Liu Xiang (CHN)
* 2013: Jiang Fan (CHN)
* 2015: Xie Wenjun (CHN)
* 2017: Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel (KUW)
* 2019: Xie Wenjun (CHN)
* 2023: Shunya Takayama (JPN)

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