The Lima World U20 Championships wrapped with 5th-place finishes by Japanese athletes in both finals that had them. In the men’s 3000 mSC final, Soma Nagahara started conservatively, sitting 11th at 1000 m in 2:49.36 with leader Edmund Serem of Kenya almost 2 second ahead. Over the next 1000 m Nagahara moved up into 5th, and that’s where he stayed. Serem took gold in an U20 world-leading 8:15.28,
Nem Vas and Taylor Wright embarked on their third annual marathon from their local pub to Toronto’s CN Tower to support the Aurora Food Pantry
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Japan finally got on the medal board with a silver medal from Rikuya Yoshida and a pair of bronzes from Ko Ochiai and Kaisei Nakatani on the fourth day of the Lima World U20 Championships. Yoshida was up first in the men’s pole vault, where he cleared a PB 5.40 m on his first attempt, good for silver behind German Hendrik Muller who made 5.45 m. Czech Jan Krcek also PBd at 5.30 m for bronze, with
Ahmed ran under 13 minutes in the 5,000m for the ninth time in his career, recording a time of 12:54.90
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