Personal information | |
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Born | 15 November 1996 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | High jump |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | High jump: 2.27 m (2025) |
Naoto Hasegawa (born 15 November 1996) is a Japanese high jumper. He competed for Japan at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships. [1]
In 2018 he won the Japanese Intercollegiate Championships with a jump of 2.18 meters. In 2019, his first year with Niigata Albirex RC, he broke the Nigata prefecture record by 1 centimetre with a jump of 2.25 meters, breaking a record that had stood for 28 years. He finished in a tie for second place at the Japanese Athletics Championships in October 2020. [2]
He was selected to represent Japan and cleared 2.23 metres to place fourth at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok in July 2023. [3] [4] He subsequently represented Japan at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August 2023, but did not progress from the qualifying heats. [5] [6]
He competed for Japan at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China in March 2025, placing seventh overall with a successful clearance of 2.20 metres. [7]
He cleared 2.23 metres to place fourth at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea in May 2025. [8] In July 2025, he set a new personal best of 2.27 metres whilst competing in Nagaoka, Japan. [9] That month, he finished third at the Japanese Athletics Championships. [10] The following month, he equalled his personal best to win the high jump competition at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial, on a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, in Budapest, Hungary. [11] [12]
He attended Shibata Chuo High School in Nigata before later attending Niigata University of Health and Welfare. [2]