Shunya Takayama
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is a Japanese athlete specialising in the
high hurdles Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle (sometimes known as 'burgles'), landing on both feet and checking their forward motion. Today, ...
. 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 The 2018 Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018 or ''Asian Games 2018''), officially known as the 18th Asian Games and also known as Jakarta-Palembang 2018 or Indonesia 2018, was a Asia, continental multi-sport event that was held from 18 A ...
. His personal best in the
110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles, or 110-metre hurdles, is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is included in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metres hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hur ...
is 13.25 seconds (+1.1 m/s), former National record and the current second best record in Japan, set in Fukui in 2019.All-Athletics profile
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1994 births Living people Japanese male hurdlers World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Sportspeople from Hiroshima Prefecture Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Japan 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub