On July 29, Beijing time, the famous Japanese marathon runner Daisuke Jie said on his personal social platform that the Tokyo Olympic Marathon was the last battle for his active runners.
"The marathon on August 8 will be my last race as an active runner." Big Forced Jay wrote so. He also posted a video to express his heart, "In order to make the Olympics my best stage, I inject 100% of my energy into it." I didn't want to give myself an excuse for the next one, so I set this game as a goal, and now that I've decided on this game as the final battle, I'm going to use all my strength. ”
Born in 1991, Dajie has harvested countless fans with his top achievements, handsome appearance and unruly personality. He holds the Japanese national record for both 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters.
Since junior high school, he has been practicing athletics, and in the third grade of junior high school, he won the third place in the national athletics competition in the 3,000 meters, and ran a time of 8 minutes 41.59 seconds, which was the best time for the Tokyo area middle school at that time.
In 2007, he entered the famous long-distance running school Saku Nagasho High School, and in 2008 and 2009, he represented the school for two consecutive years to go out of the national colleges and universities, and won the fastest interval for two consecutive years!
After graduating from high school, Daisuke entered Waseda University and became the school ace due to his excellent personal ability! For four consecutive years, it has represented Hakone Ekiden of Waseda University. In 2010, hakone Ekiden, in his first year of enrollment, surpassed seven people in a row in his personal range, helping Waseda University reverse its disadvantage and win the championship.
At the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, he finished second in the men's 10,000m and ran the Japanese national record of 3,000m in 7:40.09 in the same year.
In 2017, daiki ran 2 hours, 10 minutes and 28 seconds in the Boston Marathon for the first time, winning third place, becoming the second Japanese runner to reach the Poma podium after Toshihiko Seko in 1987. At the Fukuoka Marathon in the same year, Daisuke ran a time of 2 hours, 07 minutes and 19 seconds, once again refreshing his personal PB, ranking fifth in the history of Japanese marathons at that time.
In the 2018 Chicago Marathon, daiki's third marathon, he finished third in 2 hours, 05 minutes and 50 seconds, once again breaking the Japanese domestic record and becoming the fastest marathon in Japanese marathon history. It is worth mentioning that when talking about his goal after the completion of the game, he said: "The future goal is to win the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, proving that Japan is still a middle- and long-distance running power!" ”
In the 2020 Tokyo Marathon, he won the championship in 2 hours 05 minutes and 29 seconds, while improving his Japanese national record by 21 seconds. And qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Marathon.
On August 8, the men's marathon of the Tokyo Olympic Games will start, and the final battle of Daisuke is worth looking forward to.