Kensuke Takezawa
Kensuke Takezawa (竹澤 健介, Takezawa Kensuke, born October 11, 1986 in Himeji, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese professional long-distance runner. He attended Waseda University in Tokyo.[1]
His international debut came at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka, where he was 49th in the men's long race.[2] In 2007 he was second over 10,000 metres at the Japanese Athletics Championships then equalled the Japanese collegiate record over 5000 m at the KBC Night of Athletics (running a time of 13:19.00 minutes).[3] He finished twelfth in the 10,000 m at the 2007 World Championships. Takezawa was runner-up in the 5000 m at the 2008 Japanese nationals and was selected for the Japanese Olympic team: he ran in the first round of the 5000 m and finished twenty-eighth in the 10,000 m at the men's 10,000 metres.[2]
At the 2009 East Asian Games he won the 10,000 m gold medal – his first win on the international stage. That year he was again the 5000 m runner-up at the Japanese Championships and placed fourth over the distance at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships. He won his first national title in 2010, taking the 10,000 m honours, and placed sixth in the 5000 m at the 2010 Asian Games.[3] He was part of the Japanese team for the International Chiba Ekiden race in 2011 and helped the team to finish second overall.[4]
He began 2012 with a run at the Inter-Prefectural Men's Ekiden, where he won the final stage to take the title for Hyōgo Prefecture.[5]
Personal bests
- 3000 metres - 7:49.26 min (2009)
- 5000 metres - 13:19.00 min (2007)
- 10,000 metres - 27:45.59 min (2007)
- Half marathon - 1:02:26 hrs (2006)
References
- ^ Kensuke Takezawa. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2011-11-25.
- ^ a b Takezawa Kensuke. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ^ a b 竹澤 健介 Kensuke Takezawa (in Japanese). JAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (2011-11-23). Teenagers Mwikya and Mokua lead Kenya to Chiba Ekiden victory. IAAF. Retrieved on 2019-10-08.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (2012-01-22). Hyogo comes from behind to take fourth men's Inter-Prefectural Ekiden title. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
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- 1913; Shin Nakata
- 1914: Shotaro Koriyama
- 1915: Shizo Kanakuri
- 1916: Not held
- 1917: Tosaburo Yanagita
- 1920: Toshio Miyata
- 1921: Yamaguchi Miki
- 1922: Koji Shimomura
- 1923: Taro Hirano
- 1924: Not held
- 1925: Juichi Nagatani
- 1926: Shoichi Kusanagi
- 1927: Shigesaku Michikawa
- 1928: Juichi Nagatani
- 1929: Kazunori Morimoto
- 1930: Yukiki Nakajima
- 1931: Seiichiro Tsuda
- 1932: Masamichi Kitamoto
- 1933: Sami Koyanagi
- 1934–39: Kohei Murakoso
- 1940: Katsu Yamashita
- 1941: Not held
- 1942: Suenaga Tsutsumitoku
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946–47: Suenaga Tsutsumitoku
- 1948: Ryosuke Takasugi
- 1949: Souichi Tamoi
- 1950: Ryosuke Takasugi
- 1951: Kenji Ishii
- 1952–53: Masuo Onishi
- 1954: Kazumi Umezawa
- 1955: Osamu Inoue
- 1956–57: Sekinosuke Aoki
- 1958: Takashi Baba
- 1959: Hidekuni Hiroshima
- 1960–61: Sekinosuke Aoki
- 1962: Kōkichi Tsuburaya
- 1963: Bill Baillie (NZL)
- 1964: Kazuo Tsuchiya
- 1965: Keisuke Sawaki
- 1966: Kazuo Tsuchiya
- 1967: Akio Usami
- 1968: Keisuke Sawaki
- 1969–70: Kenichi Otsuki
- 1971: Yasunori Hamada
- 1972: Toshio Miyashita
- 1973: Ichio Sato
- 1974: Katsuaki Isobata
- 1975: Nobuaki Takao
- 1976: Toshiaki Kamata
- 1977–78: Hideki Kita
- 1979: Yasunori Hamada
- 1980: Kunimitsu Itō
- 1981: Masaya Shintaku
- 1982–83: Takao Nakamura
- 1984: Masaya Shintaku
- 1985: Takao Nakamura
- 1986: Masaya Shintaku
- 1987: Kozu Akutsu
- 1988–89: Haruo Urata
- 1990–91: Thomas Osano (KEN)
- 1992: Mathias Ntawulikura (RWA)
- 1993: Stephen Mayaka (KEN)
- 1994–95: Aloÿs Nizigama (BDI)
- 1996: Toshinari Takaoka
- 1997: Julius Gitahi (KEN)
- 1998: Kenji Takao
- 1999: Toshinari Takaoka
- 2000: Sagayo Ngatho (KEN)
- 2001: Daniel Njenga (KEN)
- 2002: Tomoo Tsubota
- 2003: Toshihiro Iwasa
- 2004: Ryuji Ono
- 2005: Yu Mitsuya
- 2006–08: Takayuki Matsumiya
- 2009: Yuki Iwai
- 2010: Kensuke Takezawa
- 2011–14: Yuki Sato
- 2015: Tetsuya Yoroizaka
- 2016–17: Suguru Osako
- 2018: Shuho Dairokuno
- 2019: Kazuki Tamura
- 2020: Akira Aizawa
- 2021: Tatsuhiko Ito
- 2022: Akira Aizawa