On May 6, Beijing time, at the 10th Kinan Michitaka Memorial Athletics Meeting held in Osaka, 27-year-old former Japanese national record holder Shohide Kiryu ran an amazing time of 10.03 seconds (+0.7) in the 100-meter preliminaries, and the Japanese media couldn't help but exclaim that Kiryu Shohide was resurrected. At present, with this 10.03 seconds, Kiryu Xiangxiu surpassed Xie Zhenye's 10.05 seconds in the United States in March this year, ranking first in the men's 100m in the Asian season.
Today's race was divided into two shots in the pre-finals, and Kiryu Shohide finished in the sixth lane of the second group with an excellent performance of 10.03 seconds, which greatly improved the event record from 10.21 seconds.
In the final, Ryuichiro Sakai, who participated in last year's World Championships in Oregon, won in 10.12 seconds (-0.3), while Shohide Kiryu finished second in 10.26 seconds.
After the Japan Championship last June, Kiryu announced that he was temporarily suspending training for recuperation due to physical reasons. When he returned to training last September, he admitted that he had suffered from ulcerative colitis, which is recognized in Japan.
He ran 10.32 seconds (+0.6) on the 100m at the Brisbane Truck Classic on March 31 and 10.52 seconds (-0.5) at the Australian Championships on April 1. At the Oda Memorial Race in Hiroshima on April 29 this year, he was both in 10.29 seconds in the prefinals.
Shohide Kiryu, who has a personal effective best time of 9.98 seconds, has always been crotch-pulling in major competitions or has always failed to get tickets to major competitions, and occasionally has amazing performances in small competitions. This time, his absolute results exceeded Xie Zhenye's best results this year, and he may become Xie Zhenye's big rival in the 100-meter race at the Asian Games in the second half of the year.