Hiroyuki Horibata
Hiroyuki Horibata (Japanese: 堀端 宏行; born 28 October 1986) is a Japanese long-distance runner who competes in the marathon. He holds a personal best of 2:08:24 hours for the event, set in 2012.[1] He twice represented his country at the World Championships in Athletics, placing seventh in 2011 but failing to finish in 2013.
He won his first half marathon in 2007 at the Kanaguri Hai Tamana Half Marathon. His marathon debut followed at the 2008 Tokyo International Marathon, where he was ninth with a time of 2:11:47 hours. He returned the following year but after a slow run of 2:18:27 he switched to track running for a period.[2]
He had renewed success over the longer distance at the 2011 Lake Biwa Marathon and he took third in a time of 2:09:25 hours – the first Japanese finisher behind East Africans Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich and Deriba Merga. This brought him his first national selection. A run of 2:10:05 hours for eleventh at the 2012 Lake Biwa Marathon was not enough for Olympic selection,[2] but he finished the year with his first national title in the marathon through a personal best run of 2:08:24 hours at the Fukuoka Marathon. Only Kenya's Joseph Gitau was faster at the race.[3][4]
His 2012 national title win earned him a place at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, but he had competed sparingly and failed to finish the distance. He competed in the Grand Tour Kyushu ekiden later that year, but largely missed the 2014 and 2015 seasons.[2]
Personal bests
- 5000 metres – 13:53.07 min (2011)
- 10,000 metres – 28:30.32 min (2011)
- Half marathon – 64:11 min (2007)
- Marathon – 2:08:24 (2012)
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 7th | Marathon | 2:11:52 |
World Marathon Cup | Daegu, South Korea | 2nd | Team marathon | 6:41:13 | |
2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | — | Marathon | DNF |
National titles
- Japan Championships in Athletics
- Marathon: 2012
References
- ^ Hiroyuki Horibata. All-Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-07-31.
- ^ a b c Hiroyuki Horibata. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2016-07-31.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (2012-12-02). 2:06:58 win for Gitau in Fukuoka. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-31.
- ^ National Marathon Champions for Japan. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2016-07-31.
External links
- Hiroyuki Horibata at World Athletics
- Profile at JAAF
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- 1913–15: Shizo Kanakuri
- 1916: Tominosuke Kato
- 1917–18: Yuyuki Akiba
- 1919: Yahei Miura
- 1920: Choichi Goto
- 1921: Koji Shimomura
- 1922: Chojiro Nishida
- 1923: Masao Matsuoka
- 1924: Not held
- 1925: Maru Saburo
- 1926: Masao Yamauchi
- 1927: Seiji Takahashi
- 1928: Kanematsu Yamada
- 1929: Kusu Yoshizo
- 1930: Seiji Takahashi
- 1931: Tamao Shiwaku
- 1932: Taika Gon (KOR)
- 1933: Kusu Yoshizo
- 1934: Isamu Nakata
- 1935: Sohn Kee-chung (KOR)
- 1936: Yu Suzuki
- 1937: Nagaharu Yanagi
- 1938: Shigekazu Kabazawa
- 1939: Kure Tosuke
- 1940: Shoichiro Takenaka
- 1941: Not held
- 1942: Akihabara Yasuta
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946–47: Shinzo Koga
- 1948: Shunichi Watanabe
- 1949: Hiroshi Hashimoto
- 1950: Yoshikazu Noda
- 1951: Kiyoshi Shinozaki
- 1952: Hiroshi Hashimoto
- 1953: Kofu Hiroshima
- 1954: Yoshikatsu Takahashi
- 1955: Veikko Karvonen (FIN)
- 1956: Keizo Yamada
- 1957–58: Sumio Horinouchi
- 1959: Yasuo Koshikawa
- 1960: Nobuyoshi Sadanaga
- 1961: Abebe Bikila (ETH)
- 1962: Toru Terasawa
- 1963: Jeff Julian (NZL)
- 1964: Kenji Kimihara
- 1965: Hidekuni Hiroshima
- 1966: Yoshiro Mifune
- 1967: Derek Clayton (AUS)
- 1968: Akio Usami
- 1969: Jerome Drayton (CAN)
- 1970: Bill Adcocks (GBR)
- 1971: Frank Shorter (USA)
- 1972: Akio Usami
- 1973: Frank Shorter (USA)
- 1974: Akio Usami
- 1975: Jerome Drayton (CAN)
- 1976: Akio Usami
- 1977: Bill Rodgers (USA)
- 1978: Takeshi So
- 1979: Toshihiko Seko
- 1980: Hiroshi Yuge
- 1981: Robert de Castella (AUS)
- 1982: Michio Mizukubo
- 1983: Toshihiko Seko
- 1984: Tetsuji Iwase
- 1985: Hisatoshi Shintaku
- 1986: Toshihiro Shibutani
- 1987: Takeyuki Nakayama
- 1988: Toshihiko Seko
- 1989: Manuel Matias (POR)
- 1990: Eddy Hellebuyck (BEL)
- 1991: Shuichi Morita
- 1992: Mike O'Reilly (GBR)
- 1993: Dionicio Cerón (MEX)
- 1994: Kenichi Suzuki
- 1995: Masaki Oya
- 1996: Hiroshi Tako
- 1997: Toshiyuki Hayata
- 1998: Muneyuki Ojima
- 1999: Hiroshi Miki
- 2000: Atsushi Fujita
- 2001: Shigeru Aburaya
- 2002: Toshio Mano
- 2003: Tomoaki Kunichika
- 2004: Tadayuki Ojima
- 2005: Toshinari Takaoka
- 2006: Wataru Okutani
- 2007: Mitsuru Kubota
- 2008: Arata Fujiwara
- 2009: Tadashi Shitamori
- 2010: Tomoyuki Sato
- 2011: Yuki Kawauchi
- 2012: Hiroyuki Horibata
- 2013: Masakazu Fujiwara
- 2014: Kohei Matsumura
- 2015: Satoru Sasaki
- 2016: Hisanori Kitajima
- 2017: Hiroto Inoue
- 2018: Yuma Hattori
- 2019: Shogo Nakamura
- 2020: Naoya Sakuda