Julian Walsh
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| Full name | Julian Jrummi Walsh | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 September 1996 Kingston, Jamaica | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 400 metres | ||||||||||||||
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Julian Jrummi Walsh (ウォルシュ・ジュリアン・ジャミイ Uorushu Jurian Jamii, born 18 September 1996 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born Japanese track and field athlete competing in the sprints. He is the son of reggae drummer Emanuel Walsh (Pablo Moses, the Mighty Diamonds, Garnett Silk and John Holt), who married a Japanese woman and has lived in Japan for almost 20 years. Walsh moved to Japan as a toddler and grew up in Higashimurayama. He started running track in 10th grade, but his school had no facilities to practice on and no coach. He couldn't take track seriously until the following year. After two seasons, he led off the Japanese silver medal winning relay team at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics.[1] That same summer he moved into senior level competition, anchoring the Asian-Pacific 4x400 metres relay team at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup. Two years later, he qualified for the 2016 Olympics in the 400 metres, by running a 45.35 at the Japanese Olympic Trials in Nagoya at age 19.
References
[edit]- ^ Campbell, Howard (14 September 2014). "Julian Walsh: Jamaican-born Japanese athlete making a name in 400m - Sport". Jamaica Observer.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
External links
[edit]- Julian Walsh at World Athletics
- Julian Walsh at the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (in Japanese)
- Julian Walsh at Olympics.com
- Julian Walsh at Olympedia
- Julian Walsh – Tokyo 2020 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
- 1996 births
- Living people
- People from Higashihiroshima
- Sportspeople from Hiroshima Prefecture
- Athletes from Kingston, Jamaica
- Japanese male sprinters
- Olympic male sprinters
- Olympic athletes for Japan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan
- Japan Championships in Athletics winners
- Asian Athletics Championships winners
- Japanese people of Jamaican descent
- Naturalized citizens of Japan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics