Shinsaku Kudo

This is a page with more blank fields than filled ones, and I think that is the honest story here. Shinsaku Kudo was born in November 2004, went to Yachiyo Shoin High School, and now runs long distance at Waseda University. No awards recorded, no timeline, not even a hometown in our data. For most entries that would be a failure of research. For a runner barely into his twenties it is simply accurate. What I find worth saying is that distance running is the least glamorous route to being written about at all. Nobody watches the six in the morning kilometers, and there is no shortcut around them, no burst of natural talent that lets you skip the accumulation. To have a name on record at this age means the work has already been done in the dark for years. I would rather present an unfinished page truthfully than pad it with invented achievements. Come back in a few seasons; the empty rows are the interesting part.

Name (English)

Shinsaku Kudo

Name (Japanese)

工藤慎作

Reading

くどう しんさく

Born

November 10, 2004 (age 21)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

Occupation

athletics competitor / long-distance runner

University

Waseda University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%A5%E8%97%A4%E6%85%8E%E4%BD%9C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135479017

Tags

• athletics competitor
• long-distance runner

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.