Daisuke Matsunaga
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Japanese |
Born | Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | March 24, 1995
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)[1] |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb)[1] |
Sport | |
Sport | Men's athletics |
Event | 20 kilometres race walk |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 20 km walk: 1:18:53 (2016) |
Daisuke Matsunaga (松永 大介, Matsunaga Daisuke, born 24 March 1995) is a Japanese male racewalking athlete who competes in the 20 kilometres race walk. He holds a personal best of 1:18:53 hours. He represented his nation at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was the 2014 World Junior champion.
He made his first impact at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships, taking a silver, then won the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics in a championship record of 39:27.19 minutes.[2] He also took a silver in the junior race behind Gao Wenkui at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in China.[3] Moving into the senior ranks he took bronze medals at the 2015 Asian Race Walking Championships and the 2015 Summer Universiade
He started 2016 with a win at the Asian Race Walking Championships.[4] He was selected to represent Japan at the 2016 Summer Olympics and placed seventh in the final.
Personal bests
- 10,000 metres race walk – 39:18.04 min (2015)
- 10 kilometres race walk – 39:45 min (2014)
- 20 kilometres race walk – 1:18:53 hrs (2016)
All information from All-Athletics.[5]
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2012 | Asian Junior Championships | Colombo, Sri Lanka | 2nd | 10,000 m walk | 45:03.01 |
2014 | World Race Walking Cup | Taicang, China | 2nd | 10 km walk (junior) | 39:45 |
5th | Junior team | 23 pts | |||
World Junior Championships | Eugene, United States | 1st | 10,000 m walk | 39:27.19 CR | |
2015 | Asian Race Walking Championships | Nomi, Japan | 3rd | 20 km walk | 1:19:08 |
Universiade | Gwangju, South Korea | 3rd | 20 km walk | 1:22:06 | |
2016 | Asian Race Walking Championships | Nomi, Japan | 1st | 20 km walk | 1:19:01 |
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 7th | 20 km walk | 1:20:22 |
References
- ^ a b Daisuke Matsunaga Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine. Rio2016. Retrieved on 2016-08-14.
- ^ Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2014-07-25). Report: men's 10,000m race walk – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 . IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-14.
- ^ Minshull, Phil (2014-05-03). Gao provides hosts with first gold medal – junior men's 10km report Taicang 2014. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-14.
- ^ Matsunaga rebounds from recent disappointment to win in Nomi. IAAF (2016-03-20). Retrieved on 2016-08-14.
- ^ Daisuke Matsunaga. All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-08-14.
External links
- Living people
- 1995 births
- Japanese male racewalkers
- Olympic athletes for Japan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen
- Athletes from Kanagawa Prefecture