is a Japanese
sprinter who specializes in the
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been conteste ...
.
Born in
Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Kiryū played
football while at elementary school and became interested in
track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...
at junior high school, as his brother took part in the sport. In 2011, he won the under-16 national title in the 100 metres at the
National Sports Festival of Japan
The is the national premier sports event of Japan. It consists of three stages. The skating and ice hockey stage takes place in January, the skiing stage takes place in February, and the main Autumn tournament takes place in September and Octob ...
, with a time of 10.58 seconds.
The following year, Kiryū ran in the under-18 category at the same competition and broke the
world youth best for the 100 metres by bettering
Tamunosiki Atorudibo's record of 10.23 seconds by two hundredths of a second on 5 October 2012. Less than a month later, on 3 November 2012, Kiryū lowered his own record to 10.19 seconds.
On 29 April 2013, Kiryū (still a student at Rakunan High School in
Tō-ji
, also known as is a Shingon Buddhist temple in the Minami-ku ward of Kyoto, Japan.
Founded in 796, it was one of the only three Buddhist temples allowed in the city at the time it became the capital of Japan. As such it has a long history, h ...
) ran at the
Oda Memorial meet and tied the
World junior record of 10.01 seconds co-held by
Darrel Brown
Darrel Rondel Brown (born October 11, 1984) is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres and the 200 metres.
In the beginning of his career, he was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the
most outstanding athlete at ...
and
Jeffery Demps. The
IAAF subsequently rejected the inclusion of the time as an official record due to the use of unapproved wind-speed measurement equipment on the track.
At the
2016 Summer Olympics, Kiryū won a silver medal in the
4 × 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...
.
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Yoshihide Kiryūat
JAAF
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1995 births
Asian Athletics Championships winners
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Japan Championships in Athletics winners
Japanese male sprinters
living people
medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Olympic athletes of Japan
Olympic male sprinters
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
sportspeople from Shiga Prefecture
World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
World Athletics Championships medalists
20th-century Japanese people
21st-century Japanese people