Yuma Maruyama

Yuma Maruyama
Maruyama in 2023
Personal information
Born (1998-06-03) 3 June 1998
Sport
SportAthletics
Events
Decathlon, Heptathlon
Achievements and titles
Personal bestsHeptathlon: 5901 (2025)NR
Decathlon 8021 (2024)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Japan
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place2022 HangzhouDecathlon
Asian Athletics Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 BangkokDecathlon
Asian Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 AstanaHeptathlon
Gold medal – first place2024 TehranHeptathlon
Bronze medal – third place2026 TianjinHeptathlon

Yuma Maruyama (born 3 June 1998) is a Japanese multi-event athlete. He set a new Japanese national record in heptathlon in 2025 and in the decathlon in 2026.[1]

Early and personal life

Maruyama was born in Osaka and graduated from Osaka Prefectural Shinoda Senior High School and Nihon University.[2]

Career

Maruyama was a bronze medalist at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in the decathlon.[3]

Maruyama was a gold medalist in the heptathlon at the 2023 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Kazakhstan with 5,801 points.[4] He was a gold medalist in the decathlon at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok, with a total of 7,745 points.[5] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in the decathlon.[6]

Maruyama was a gold medalist in the heptathlon at the 2024 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran, Iran, winning six of the seven events.[7][8] He won the decathlon at the Japanese Athletics Championships in 2023 and 2024 and set a personal best of 8,021 points for decathlon to move to third on Japan’s all-time list.[2]

With a score of 5901 points he set a new national record in the indoor heptathlon in Tallinn in February 2025.[9] He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025.[10] Competing at the 2025 Asian Championships in May, he was scoring well but had a freak accident, hitting his head in the hurdles race and was unable to complete the decathlon. Later that year, he was able to secure his second ever score over 8000 in Nagano.[11]

In February 2026, he won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2026 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tianjin, China.[12] Competing at the Mt. SAC Relays in California in April 2026, be broke the Japanese record for decathlon set 14 years previously by Keisuke Ushiro.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Yuma Maruyama". World Athletics. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Yuma Maruyama, Athletics – Aim to become the true "King of Athletes" Mountain challenge beyond limits". Tokyoforward2025. 5 December 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  3. ↑ "China wins four golds in Athletics at Asian Games". mews.cn. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  4. ↑ Berkeley, Geoff (12 February 2023). "Dubovitskaya leads Kazakhstan clean sweep at Asian Indoor Athletics Championships". Inside the Games. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  5. ↑ Rowbottom, Mike (13 July 2023). "Japan and India win three golds each on day two of Asian Athletics Championships". Inside the Games. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  6. ↑ "Toshikazu Yamanishi headlines Japan World Athletics Championships team". World-Track. 8 August 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  7. ↑ "Yamamoto 3000 m Gold at Asian Indoor Championships". Japan Running News. February 20, 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  8. ↑ "11th Asian Indoor Athletics". World Athletics. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  9. ↑ "Tallinn 2025". World Athletics. 2 Feb 2025. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  10. ↑ "[Nanjing 2025 World Indoor Athletics Championships] Japan's representative athletes have been decided! Six months until the Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships! 13 athletes, including Nozomi Tanaka, Yumi Tanaka, and Shunsuke Izumiya, will take on the world". jaaf.or.jp. 14 March 2025. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
  11. ↑ "Preview: Götzis heptathlon and decathlon 2026". Decathletes of Europe. May 30, 2026. Retrieved 31 May 2026.
  12. ↑ "Liu leads Chinese gold rush at Asian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 Feb 2026.
  13. ↑ "HAKIM MCMORRIS EARNS SECOND CONSECUTIVE DECATHLON TITLE AT MT. SAC RELAYS". Dye Stat. 17 April 2026. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
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