Shusei Nomoto

Shusei Nomoto
Personal information
NationalityJapanese
Born (1995-10-25) 25 October 1995
Sport
SportAthletics
EventHurdles
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)60m hurdles: 7.57 (Belgrade, 2022)
100m hurdles 13.20 (Fukui, 2023)

Shusei Nomoto (date 25 October 1995) is a Japanese hurdler. He was Japanese national champion in 2022 over 60m hurdles.[1]

Career

He won the Japanese indoor championships in Osaka in March 2022, over 60m hurdles, running a time of 7.58 seconds.[2] Competing at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade later that month, he reached the semifinals and missed out on a chance to run in the final after a drawing-of-lots, having ran a dead-heat time of 7.57 seconds with British athlete David King.[3][4]

In July 2025, he was runner-up over 110 metres hurdles at the Japanese Athletics Championships in a time of 13.23 seconds. He was subsequently one of seven athletes named that month to represent the Japanese national team at the 2025 World Athletics Championships, held in Tokyo.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Shusei Nomoto". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. ^ "105th Japan Championships". World Athletics. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  3. ^ "King finishes sixth in world final after surviving nerve-wracking draw". Plymouth Sports Gazette. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  4. ^ Rowbottom, Mike (21 March 2022). "Hurdlers locked together from gun to tape in Belgrade". Inside the Games. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Japanese Championships". World Athletics. 4 July 2025. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  6. ^ Kano, Shintaro (7 July 2025). "Japan name first athletes for World Athletics Championships; Kitaguchi Haruka eyes late August return at Diamond League Lausanne". Olympics.com. Retrieved 8 July 2025.