Monday a relatively busy day in Paris Olympics athletics for the Japanese national team. Things started off slowly with all three men in the 400 mH heats finishing near the bottom of the field of 39 starters, Daiki Ogawa running 50.21 for 33rd, Kaito Tsutsue 50.50 for 35th and the high potential Ken Toyoda last among the 37 finishers in 53.62 after a mid-race injury. All three head to the
The young Swedish-American had already secured the gold medal with 6.10m, but successfully cleared 6.25m on his third try
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There still aren’t many Japanese athletes on the ground in athletics at the Paris Olympics. Day 3 on Saturday saw only 3 men in action, all in the 100 m. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown was the only one to make it out of the heats and into Sunday’s semifinals, running 10.02 (0.0) for 2nd in Heat 4 behind Jamaican Oblique Seville. Ryuichiro Sakai missed a time qualifying spot by only 0.01, running 10.17 (
Katzberg wins Canada’s first ever Olympic medal in the hammer throw
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The sole distance event of the this morning’s athletics session at the Stade de France was the heats of the women’s 3000m steeplechase. James Rhodes runs through what happened. Super Steeples Lizzie Bird, who spoke to Fast Running ahead of the Olympics, qualified for her second Olympic Games final. It is an excellent achievement considering […]
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