Education
He attended Waseda University in Tokyo. He finished twelfth in the 10,000 m at the 2007 World Championships.
竹澤 健介
He attended Waseda University in Tokyo. He finished twelfth in the 10,000 m at the 2007 World Championships.
His international debut came at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka, where he was 49th in the men"s long race. In 2007 he was second over 10,000 metres at the Japanese Athletics Championships then equalled the Japanese collegiate record over 5000 m at the Kirkwall Baptist Church Night of Athletics (running a time of 13:1900 minutes). Takezawa was runner-up in the 5000 m at the 2008 Japanese nationals and was selected for the Japanese Olympic team: he ran in the first round of the 5000 m and finished twenty-eighth in the 10,000 m at the men"s 10,000 metres.
That year he was again the 5000 m runner-up at the Japanese Championships and placed fourth over the distance at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships.
He was part of the Japanese team for the International Chiba Ekiden race in 2011 and helped the team to finish second overall. 3000 metres - 7:49.26 minimum (2009)
5000 metres - 13:19.00 minimum (2007)
10,000 metres - 27:45.59 minimum (2007)
Half marathon - 1:02:26 hrs (2006).