As on the occasion of the Japan championships of 20 km road walk in Kobe past February, also at 50 km of the All Japan Championships to be held tomorrow in Takahata the JAAF organized a refresher seminar for Japanese national race walking judges.
The seminar organized by Yukio Seki, member of the IAAF Technical Committee and responsible for the international relations of the JAAF and Akira Fujisaki, head of the race walking judges in Japan, among others attended the four international judges invited to Takahata as per IAAF rule concerning entry standards for the next World Championships in London in 2017.
In addition to Jean Pierre Dahm (FRA), Colin Fee (CHN), Daniel Michaud (CAN) and Zoe Eastwood Bryson (AUS) were also present a biomechanic of Japan, Koji Hoga Miura, known abroad for a number of scientific papers related race walk.
Koji Hoga Miura presented a series of video clips of walk situations of the recent Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, on which then opened a discussion among the participants.
Continue in this way the Japan approach at the next Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, where, given the results achieved in recent years, the country of the Rising Sun will be present with all the right credentials to do well.
(The short report by Yukio Seki - JPN)
Lecturers (commentators):
- Zoë Eastwood-Bryson(AUS)
- Daniel Michaud(CAN)
- Jean-Pierre Dahm(FRA)
- Colin Fei Jian(CHN)
Schedule:
- 22 OCT(SAT) 14:00-16:00 Video Seminar
- 23 OCT(SUN) 14:00-14:30 Wrap-up Seminar (Post Event Debriefing)
On the occasion that IRWJs were invited to the All Japan Race Walk in Takahata, the Japanese Athletics Federation planned to organise the Seminar to educate National Race Walking Judges for which IRWJs were Lecturers (Commentators).
As our Scientific Reserch Committee Member, Mr. Koji Miura who is a former IRWJ-Area was a role of Conductor of the Seminar.
On the Day1, at the beginning, Koji requested participants (NRWJs) to “judge” 12 Race Walkers, watching 12 scenes on the video of Rio Olympics.
Then he compared the decision made by NRWJs with the results given by IRWJs in Rio and , having comments from IRWJs.
On the Day2, after races, Koji asked IRWJs comments about the Summary Sheets at the Wrap-up Seminar.
(All photos by Facebook Yukio Seki - JPN)
Some moments of the seminar in Takahata (JPN)