Yuma Maruyama
Yuma Maruyama is a Japanese multi-event athlete.
Early and personal life
He was born in Osaka and graduated from Osaka Prefectural Shinoda Senior High School and Nihon University.Career
He was a bronze medalist at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in the decathlon.He was a gold medalist in the heptathlon at the 2023 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Kazakhstan with 5,801 points. He was a gold medalist in the decathlon at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok, with a total of 7,745 points. He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in the decathlon.
He was a gold medalist in the heptathlon at the 2024 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran, Iran, winning six of the seven events. 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.
He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025.