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| Born | 5 April 1996 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Javelin | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Javelin: 87.16 m (Gumi, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Yuta Sakiyama (born 5 April 1996) is a Japanese javelin thrower who won the Japanese Athletics Championships in 2025. He represented Japan at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. [1]
In May 2023 in Osaka, he made a throw of 83.54 meters, the fifth-best in Japan's history. [2] He competed for Japan at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, but did not register a valid throw. [3] [4]
He was a bronze medalist at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea in May 2025 with an 83.75m throw, a new personal best. [5] [6] In July 2025, he won the Japanese Athletics Championships in Tokyo with a personal best throw of 87.16 metres. The throw also moved him to second on the Japanese all-time list. [7] [8] He was subsequently named that month to the Japanese national team competing at the 2025 World Athletics Championships, held in Tokyo. [9]
He is from Nara Prefecture. He attended Nihon University, after which he was based in Imabari, Ehime where he was coached by Hamamoto Kazuma, who previously trained Yukifumi Murakami. [10]
