Toshikazu Yamanishi

Toshikazu Yamanishi (山西 利和, Yamanishi Toshikazu; born 15 February 1996) is a Japanese race walker.^[1]

Toshikazu Yamanishi

Toshikazu Yamanishi at Korzeniowski Warsaw Race Walking Cup 2024
Personal information
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1996-02-15) 15 February 1996 (age 29) Nagaokakyō, Kyoto, Japan
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Country	Japan
Sport	Athletics
Event	Racewalking
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 20 km walk World Championships 2019 Doha 20 km walk 2022 Eugene 20 km walk World Race Walking Cup 2022 Muscat 20 km walk Asian Games 2018 Jakarta 20 km walk Summer Universiade 2017 Taipei 20 km walk

Career

Yamanishi won a gold medal in 20 kilometres race walk at the 2019 Asian Race Walking Championships in Nomi,^[1] with a World Leading time of 1:17.15 (2019 season).^[2]

At the 2019 and 2022 World Athletics Championships, Yamanishi won the gold medal in the 20 kilometres walk event, consecutively in 2019 and 2022.^[3][4][5]

On 16 February 2025, Yamanishi won the Japanese 20 kilometres Race Walking Championships with a new world record of 1:16:10 to break the previous record of 1:16:36 set by Yusuke Suzuki in 2015.^[6]