Kensuke Takezawa

Kensuke Takezawa (竹澤 健介, Takezawa Kensuke, born October 11, 1986 in Himeji, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese professional long-distance runner.

[1] His international debut came at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka, where he was 49th in the men's long race.

[2] At the 2009 East Asian Games he won the 10,000 m gold medal – his first win on the international stage.

He won his first national title in 2010, taking the 10,000 m honours, and placed sixth in the 5000 m at the 2010 Asian Games.

[4] He began 2012 with a run at the Inter-Prefectural Men's Ekiden, where he won the final stage to take the title for Hyōgo Prefecture.

Kensuke Takezawa at the 2009 International Chiba Ekiden .