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1. What is the Inter-High School Championships?

2. Eligibility

3. Past winners

1. What is the Inter-High School Championships?

Inter-High is the common name for the "National High School Athletic Meet," and is a national championship tournament for high school students. It is commonly called "Inhai." It is organized by the All Japan High School Athletic Federation and is held every August.

The term "Inter-High" is modeled after "Inter-College," a name for a sports tournament for university students. While "Inter-College" is a legitimate expression used in English-speaking countries, "Inter-College" is Japanese-made English and will not be understood in English-speaking countries.

2. Eligibility

There are two types of Inter-High School Championships: team competitions and individual competitions.
The individual competition will have 4 participants from the host prefecture and 2 participants from the other 46 prefectures, for a total of 96 participants.
In the team competition, two schools from the host prefecture and one school from each of the other prefectures can participate, for a total of 48 schools.

3. Past winners

Individual competitions were introduced at the Inter-High School Championships from the 6th tournament onwards. Prior to that, there were only team competitions.

6th Tournament 1959 Winner: Masatoyo Sakamoto (Kyushu Gakuin)
Runner-up: Katsumi Yoshida (Awa)
Third place: Naohiko Honda (Nagasaki East)
Third place: Eiji Iwao (Seisei Gakuin)

7th Tournament 1960 Winner: Kenji Ikeda (Fukuoka Commercial High School)
Runner-up: Takao Hirasawa (Niigata Commercial High School)
Third place: Kunihiko Kanazawa (Minamiuwa)
Third place: Toru Kazumi (Wakayama Commercial High School)

8th Tournament 1961 Winner: Satoshi Furusawa (Niigata Commercial High School)
Runner-up: Satoshi Kojima (Miyazaki West)
Third place: Yoshinori Matsukuma (Itoshima)
3rd place Akira Tateoka (Akita Commercial)

9th Tournament 1962 Winner: Kunihiro Sato (Chukyo Commercial High School)
Runner-up: Kimiteru Matsuzaki (Kaho)
3rd place Hitoshi Chiba (Kogida Agriculture and Forestry)
Third place: Tetsuo Shimoike (Kagoshima Commercial High School)

10th Tournament, 1963 Winner: Fumio Kuboki (Nihon University)
Runner-up: Takeo Kawabe (Maebashi Commercial High School)
3rd place Takashi Kogurega (Fudoka)
Third place: Masahiro Tabata (Waseda Jitsugyo)

11th Tournament 1964 Winner: Hideo Fukumoto (PL Gakuen)
Runner-up: Yukio Masaki (Hyogo)
Third place: Susumu Kamata (Kogota Agriculture and Forestry)
Third place: Hirokazu Sawaniri (Sagara)

12th Tournament 1965 Winner: Satoshi Sakuragi (Yanagawa Commercial High School)
Runner-up: Masayuki Inayoshi (Sakuragaoka)
3rd place Kazufumi Hamasuna (Miyazaki Agriculture)
Third place: Sotaro Okuyama (Akita)


13th Tournament 1966 Winner: Makita Minoru (PL Gakuen)
Runner-up: Takashi Korogi (Hokkaido)
3rd place Hisakatsu Wakamatsu (Aki)
3rd place Mitsuhiro Hoshinoo (Kagawa)

14th 1967 Winner: Nobuo Nasu (Uto)
Runner-up: Takashi Aoyagi (Saga North)
3rd place Yukio Mosquitani (Seiryo)
Third place: Kohei Ito (Mobara Industrial)

15th 1968 Winner: Toshitaka Todoroki (Miyazaki)
Runner-up: Hiroomi Mawatari (Izumi)
Third place: Oshigenaka City (Kagoshima Commercial High School)
Third Place: Sadamitsu Kuroki (Miyazaki Agriculture)

16th 1969 Winner: Teruaki Kageyama (Tsuchiura San)
Runner-up: Maeda Hozumi (Hokuriku)
Third place: Naotoshi Kuga (Yatsushiro East)
Third place: Ken Kamata (Kogota Agriculture and Forestry)

17th Tournament 1970 Winner: Hideo Ogawa (Kokushikan University)
Runner-up: Oshige Yusuke (Kagoshima Commercial High School)
Third place: Takayoshi Hatakeyama (Toyohashi Commercial High School)
Third place: Kiyotoshi Kato (Kaho)

18th Tournament 1971 Winner: Yoshiyuki Machi (Nagasaki East)
Runner-up: Akira Araya (Tsuyama East)
Third place: Yoshifumi Nakamura (Chukyo Commercial High School)
Third place: Hiroshi Sasaki (Yuzawa)

19th 1972 Winner: Masao Sano (Awa)
Runner-up: Ikeda Itsuo (Kaho)
Third place: Takanori Shiiba (Yatsushiro East)
3rd place Kunio Ueki (Jitoku)

20th 1973 Winner: Hideaki Suetori (Minamichiku)
Runner-up: Shozo Yokoyama (Yatsushiro East)
3rd place Shinya Ota (Koyo)
Third place: Kazuhiro Kasai (Fukuoka Ohori)

21st 1974 Winner: Tomoshige Takanashi (Tsuchiura Nihon University)
Runner-up: Kazuya Taniguchi (Kochi)
Third place: Nagatoshi Ushijima (Saga Agriculture)
Third place: Hirofumi Fujimoto (Shido Commercial High School)

22nd Tournament 1975 Winner: Koda Gunshu (Nagasaki East)
Runner-up: Makoto Murakami (Kotohira)
Third place: Omukaehiro (Tono)
Third place: Iraka Susumu (Naha)

23rd Tournament 1976 Winner: Masahiko Yamamoto (PL Gakuen)
Runner-up: Gonjo Takamori (Higashi Fukuoka)
Third place: Takaaki Miura (Sakata Higashi)
Third place: Tetsuo Kuroyama (Kagoshima Jitsugyo)

24th 1977 Winner: Yoshihiro Hirata (Saidaiji)
Runner-up: Yutaka Ninagawa (Kokura Minami)
Third place: Akio Ninomiya (Nagahama)
Third place: Koji Yamamoto (Takashima)

25th Tournament 1978 Winner: Yosuke Yamanaka (PL Gakuen)
Runner-up Hidehiro Honda (Nagasaki Minamiyama)
Third place: Keiji Kuwahara (Kagoshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
Third place: Tadashi Iwata (Saitama Sakae)

26th 1979 Winner: Norio Yamashita (Kitsuki)
Runner-up: Hiroshi Kiyota (Kansai)
3rd place Akihiro Takazutsumi (Nagasaki Minamizan)
Third place: Tsuneo Arai (Minano)

27th 1980 Winner: Shinichiro Nakajima (Kochi)
Runner-up: Hitoshi Miura (Sakata Kogyo)
3rd place Takayuki Tomita (Karatsu Higashi)
Third place: Shinichi Taniguchi (Sakata Commercial High School)

28th 1981 Winner: Masayoshi Yanagi (Kagoshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
Runner-up: Saga Yutaka (PL Gakuen)
3rd place Tadanori Hashimoto (Akita Minami)
3rd place Hideki Nagatome (Nagasaki Minamizan)

29th Tournament 1982 Winner: Kenji Ishii (PL Gakuen)
Runner-up: Yuichi Ono (Chinzei)
Third place: Satoshi Saga (Tokai University Daiichi)
3rd place Masaaki Sato (Oita)

30th Tournament 1983 Winner: Masato Wakai (PL Gakuen)
Runner-up: Futoshi Kuriyama (Kyushu Sangyo University)
Third place: Takeda Masaru (Sugamo)
Third place: Yasuhiko Yoshizato (Chinzei)

31st 1984 Winner: Eiichi Takenaka (Takachiho)
Runner-up: Kanji Inamoto (Yatsushiro East)
Third place: Tetsuji Okada (Saidaiji Temple)
Third place: Kazuhiko Hosaka (Akita Chuo)

32nd 1985 Winner: Kazuhiko Shimohashi (Kagoshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
Runner-up: Yumi Tomohiro (Miyoki)
Third place: Takafumi Saito (Ako)
Third place: Hidekazu Sone (Wakayama East)

33rd 1986 Winner: Ichikawa Ryutaro (Kasuga)
Runner-up: Naoki Takahashi (Seifu)
Third place: Daisuke Tonoike (Shimotsuma 1st)
3rd place: Takakazu Tanaka

34th Tournament 1987 Winner: Takahiro Nabeyama (PL Gakuen)
Runner-up: Yuichi Kono (Takachiho)
Third place: Kazunori Takizawa (Niigata Commercial High School)
Third place: Jun Matsuo (Nagasaki East)

35th 1988 Winner: Kenji Fukui (Kotohira)
Runner-up: Koji Tsutsumi (Oita)
Third place: Kenji Fukuda (Nagasaki East)
Third place: Satoshi Matsumura (Masayoshi)

36th 1989 Winner: Tadanori Yamashita (Uji)
Runner-up: Kazuhiro Asahi (Sugamo Commercial High School)
3rd place Shinsuke Noda (Takamatsu Minami)
3rd place Riichi Kunika (Ikuei)

37th 1990 Winner: Mitsunobu Sato (Kogota Agriculture and Forestry)
Runner-up: Hideto Akimoto (PL Gakuen)
3rd place Takahiro Kawachi (Saikyo)
Third place: Kiyoshi Sato (Sakata Commercial High School)

38th 1991 <br>Winner: Nozomi Kanematsu (Seifu)
Runner-up: Toshikuni Takeyasu (PL Gakuen)
Third place: Kenji Asada (Takachiho)
Third place: Kazuki Daimon (Kanazawa Sakuragaoka)

39th 1992 Winner: Akito Homma (Miyazaki Kita)
Runner-up: Masakazu Fukui (Tokai University Fourth)
Third place: Masakazu Iwamoto (Kudamatsu Industrial)
Third place: Takahiro Odaguchi (Kagoshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

40th Tournament 1993 Winner: Kaoru Yamada (Akita Commercial High School)
Runner-up: Hideyuki Inoue (Numata)
Third place: Kurusumi Lab (Toin Gakuen)
Third place: Masafumi Yoshino (Tokai University Sugao)

41st Tournament 1994 Winner: Masaomi Sone (Wakayama East)
Runner-up: Tomoeda Seiichiro (Aso)
Third place: Uesugi Hiraoka (Mito Junior College)
Third place: Takeshi Taniyama (Kagoshima Jitsugyo)

42nd 1995
Winner: Hiraoka Uesugi (Mito Junior College)
Runner-up: Mori Daiki (Fukuoka Ohori)
Third place: Gonpei Yoshiyasu (Niigata Meiken)
3rd place Hajime Shiraishi (Nagasaki Minamiyama)

43rd 1996 Winner: Itoyama Jinwa (Nagasaki Minamiyama)
Runner-up: Hiroki Wada (Narashino)
Third place: Keiichiro Narumoto (Gion Kita)
Third place: Yosuke Saito (Tochigi Minami)

44th 1997 Winner: Takanori Ozuno (Saidaiji)
Runner-up: Takahiro Nakano (Hiyoshigaoka)
Third place: Tadakatsu Ajiro (Hyogo)
Third place: Yusuke Egashira (Ryukoku)

45th Tournament 1998 Winner: Ryoichi Uchimura (Kyushu Gakuin)
Runner-up: Yusuke Egashira (Ryukoku)
Third place: Tadakatsu Ajiro (Ikuei)
Third place: Masato Koike (Takanawa)

46th Tournament 1999 Winner: Kakuji Miyagawa (PL Gakuen)
Runner-up: Hiroyuki Nishi (Kagoshima Commercial High School)
3rd place Yukihisa Shiozuka (Nagasaki Minamizan)
Third place: Inoue Nariyuki (Ryukoku)

47th 2000 Winner: Shoichi Sasaki (Narashino)
Runner-up: Akihiro Kawano (Aso)
Third place: Musashi Amatani (Toin Gakuen)
Third place: Tsuneji Marutani (Minami, Hiroshima)

48th Tournament 2001 Winner: Akio Konosu (Mito Aoryo)
Runner-up: Kotaro Masuda (Toin Gakuen)
3rd place Katsuya Serikawa (Aso)
Third place: Daisuke Ishihara (Asahigaoka)

49th Tournament 2002 Winner: Kazushi Shime (Kyushu Gakuin)
Runner-up: Ryota Katsuren (Kogota Agriculture and Forestry)
Third place: Yasuto Takatori (Miyoki)
3rd place Junya Hirayama (Kochi)

50th 2003 Winner: Hayato Ohata (Saidaiji)
Runner-up: Kenta Yamamoto (Nagasaki Minamiyama)
Third place: Yusuke Kondo (Wakayama East)
Third place: Shin Masuda (Kusatsu East)

51st Tournament 2004 Winner: Kosuke Hatanaka (Wakayama East)
Runner-up: Hirata Kei (Chikushioka)
Third place: Yosuke Katsumi (Kurashiki)
3rd place Daigo Ueda (Taisha)

52nd Tournament 2005 Winner: Tatsuya Kawabata (Miyakonojo East)
Runner-up: Yuta Watanabe (Wakamatsu Commercial High School)
Third place: Kenichiro Kameda (Tokai University Daiichi)
Third place: Narita Tatsunori (Toin Gakuen)

53rd 2006 Winner: Yuji Ishida (Takanawa)
Runner-up: Narita Tatsunori (Toin Gakuen)
Third place: Naoki Osonoi (Aoryo Mito)
Third place: Yuta Kanai (Aoryo Mito)

54th 2007 Winner: Jin Murayama (Sakata Commercial High School)
Runner-up: Chikara Iwakawa (Akita Minami)
Third place: Keita Yamaguchi (Ryukoku)
Third place: Murakami Raita (Toin Gakuen)

55th 2008 Winner: Ryusuke Kanno (Kogota Agriculture and Forestry)
Runner-up: Junichi Tajima (Toin Gakuen)
3rd place: Sho Ando (Tokai University)
3rd place Naohiro Takeda (Kogida Agriculture and Forestry)

56th Tournament 2009 Winner: Shiotani Masaaki (Meitoku Gijuku)
Runner-up: Shigeta Daiki (Kyushu Gakuin)
3rd place Hiroki Sato (Mizunami Reisawa)
Third place: Akira Watanabe (Sakuragaoka)

57th 2010 Winner: Yuki Chiba (Awa)
Runner-up: Takahiro Tsuruoka (Yumoto)
Third place: Daisuke Onuki (Awa)
Third place: Yohei Irie (Shimabara)

58th 2011 Winner: Hiroya Takakura (Aoiryo Mito)
Runner-up: Taisei Ono (Tokai University Dai-ni)
Third place: Katsuya Sakaguchi (Chinzei)
Third Place: Kazuma Yamashita (Tsuchiura Nihon University)

59th Tournament 2012 Winner: Katsuya Ide (Fukuoka Daiichi)
Runner-up: Shunichiro Kato (Akita Commercial High School)
Third place: Takeshi Murakami (Toin Gakuen)
Third place: Masahiro Orita (Kagoshima Commercial High School)

60th 2013 Winner: Yoichiro Sasaki (Takanawa)
Runner-up: Takaaki Soga (Kyushu Gakuin)
Third place: Yuya Motoyoshi (Saitama Sakae)
Third place: Yoshihide Tanaka (Toin Gakuen)

61st 2014 Winner: Yuya Nakane (Aoryo Mito)
Runner-up: Ryohei Yamada (Kyushu Gakuin)
3rd place Sendaumi (Sendai Ikuei)
Third place: Ayumu Tagaya (Koyama)

62nd Tournament 2015 Winner: Takuhito Saito (Tokai University Sagami)
Runner-up: Yusei Tsuchida (Kyushu Gakuin)
Third place: Ryoga Tsukao (Tohoku University)
Third place: Kenshiro Matsuzaki (Shimabara)

63rd 2016 Winner: Keita Hoshiko (Kyushu Gakuin)
Runner-up: Kajitani Takemasa (Kyushu Gakuin)
3rd place Tomoki Kozumi (Mizunami Reisawa)
3rd place Yuki Takayama (Nara University)

64th 2017 Winner: Yuma Iwakiri (Kyushu Gakuin)
Runner-up: Shoji Ohira (Sano Nihon University)
Third place: Daichi Fujimoto (Tamashima)
Third place: Kazuki Nagao (Kyushu Gakuin)

65th 2018 Winner: Shoji Ohira (Sano Nihon University)
Runner-up Ryunari Kato (Yatsu)
Third place: Ryusuke Natsumeda (Aoryo Mito)
Third place: Toshiya Nose (Iwata Higashi)

66th 2019
Winner: Ryunosuke Ikeda (Fukuoka University Ohori)
Runner-up Yukiya Ogawa (Yonori)
Third place: Mizuki Saito (Shimabara)
Third place: Hirotaka Abiru (Meiji University Nakano)

67th 2020 <br>Cancelled to prevent the spread of COVID-19

68th 2021 Winner: Chiaki Araki (Nisshou Gakuen)
Runner-up: Takeo Watanabe (Sendai Ikuei)
Third place: Hidehiro Suenaga (Kyushu Gakuin University)
Third place: Yuuki Sashimoto (Kanazawa Sakuragaoka)

69th 2022 Winner: Takashima Souma (Kyushu Gakuin)
Runner-up: Nakao Oshin (Kyushu Gakuin)
Third place: Keigo Tomeba (Fukuoka University Ohori)
3rd place Ryosuke Sakamoto (Taisha)

70th 2023 Winner: Yasuteru Moriyasu (Fukuoka University Ohori)
Runner-up: Aomi Kawai (Kamimiya)
Third place: Masato Toda (Nagasaki Nanzan)
3rd place Junya Hatano (Taisha)

71st 2024
Winner: Kenki Yamashita (Oita, Meiho)
Runner-up: Mori Osuke (Kumamoto, Kyushu Gakuin)
Third place: Matsuwa Ren (Tokai University Urayasu, Chiba)
Third place: Keitaro Seki (Fukuoka University Ohori)

72nd 2025
Winner: Mori Taisou (Fukuoka University Ohori)
Runner-up: Akihiro Hayashi (Fukuoka University Ohori)
3rd place Yuuto Takamatsu (Meiho)
Third place: Nishi Toshihiro (Kagoshima Commercial High School)

These are the past individual winners.
I can't wait to see who wins next year!