"Athletics Award" to recognize Japanese athletes who played an active role in international athletics such as athletics was held every year at the Japan Athletics Federation, and the ceremony held on the 19th was about 60 A human player attended.

And the 'Athlete of the Year' awarded to the most active players was a 29-year-old Arai who won the silver medal in a 50-kilogram race at the World Championships held in London in August It was chosen.

Arai was highly praised for winning medals at the international convention following the bronze medal of last year's Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. In September, Kiryu who won the Japanese new record of 9 seconds 98, which is the first 9 seconds for the Japanese athlete, was awarded the special prize in men's 100 meters.

The 18th-year-old Sani Brown Abdel Hakimu, who was the youngest player in the world championship 200 m and won the seventh place in the final, and the bronze medal in the men's 400 meter relay Kiyoshi Kiryu, Shuhei Tada Shigeru, Shota Iizuka, Kenji Fujimitsu, Cambridge Asuka players were selected.

Among them, 21-year-old Tada won a new award also because he was evaluated to have advanced to the semi-finals of a male 100 meters at the first appearance of the world championship.