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| Born | 1 February 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 3:35.62 (2024) Mile: 3:56.01 (2023) 3000m: 8:07.06 (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kazuto Iizawa (born 2 February 2001) is a Japanese middle-distance runner. He won the gold medal at the 2023 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships and 2025 Asian Athletics Championships over 1500 metres. [1]
He won the Japanese Athletics Championships over 1500 metres for the first time in 2022, in Osaka. [2]
In 2023, he set a new Asian indoor record for the indoor mile run in Boston, Massachusetts, with a time of 3:56.01. [3] He won the gold medal in the 1500 meters at the 2023 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Kazhakstan, running 3:42.83. [4] [5] [6]
He won the Japanese Athletics Championships over 1500 metres for the second time in 2024, in Nigata. [7]
He won the gold medal in the 1500 meters at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, running 3:42.56. [8] [9]
He won the Japanese Athletics Championships over 1500 metres for the third time in Tokyo in July 2025. [10] He was selected as part of the Japanese team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. [11]
