Woo, Tanaka lead Seiko Golden Grand Prix

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Edwin  - CEO April 1, 2024
Updated 2024/04/02 at 4:20 PM
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Woo Sanghyeok at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix (© Organisers)/World Athletics
Woo Sanghyeok at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix (© Organisers)/World Athletics

Set for season’s fourth World Athletics Continental Tour Gold

 

Nozomi Tanaka Image credit: World Athletics

 

Woo Sanghyeok and Nozomi Tanaka are among the athletes announced for the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, this season’s fourth World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, which will take place in Tokyo on 19 May, World Athletics reports.

 

Korea’s Woo claimed bronze in the men’s high jump at last month’s World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, two years after his title-winning performance in Belgrade.

 

Japan’s Tanaka also competed in Glasgow, finishing eighth in the women’s 3000m. The 24-year-old—who also finished eighth in the 1500m at the Tokyo Olympics, eighth in the 5000m at the World Championships in Budapest, and eighth in the mile at the World Road Running Championships in Riga—most recently competed at the World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, where she finished seventh as part of Japan’s mixed relay team.

 

Now Woo and Tanaka are preparing to return to Tokyo, where Woo finished fourth in the Olympics.

 

Woo’s competition will include Brandon Starc, Australia’s 2018 Commonwealth Games champion, and Olympic fifth-place finisher, Australian champion Joel Baden, and Japan’s Tomohiro Shinno, Ryoichi Akamatsu, and Naoto Hasegawa.

 

Tanaka returns to defend her Seiko Golden Grand Prix 1500m title after she clocked 4:11.56 to win in Yokohama last year.

 

Her compatriot Ririka Hironaka has been named for the women’s 5000m.

 

Asuka Terada and Masumi Aoki, tied for second place on the Japanese all-time list for the 100m hurdles, will face Yumi Tanaka. The 110m hurdles will feature joint national record-holders Shunsuke Izumiya and Rachid Muratake.

 

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