Yuma Maruyama
Japanese decathlete
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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]
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Decathlon 8021 (2024)
Maruyama in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 3 June 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Events | Decathlon, Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Heptathlon:
5901 (2025)NR Decathlon 8021 (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]