In its only event on the final day of the Tokyo World Athletics Championships, Japan fielded the same men’s 4×100 m lineup it did in the heats, Yuki Koike, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu and Towa Uzawa. The specter of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics final, where Japan had a rare missed exchange while being a medal favorite, hung over the team’s return to the final on home ground, and there was
Bumped by a local election from its usual date at the beginning of September to the same day as the Berlin Marathon, the Volksbank Muenster Marathon saw its most competitive men’s race ever. With pacers assigned to go 3:04/km with a halfway split of 1:04:30-45, the lead men went through 5 km way ahead of that in 15:02 and 15 km in 45:17.Running his first race in Europe and hoping for a low-2:10
Fresh off the sting of world and Olympic champion Haruka Kitaguchi not making the final in the women’s javelin, national pride was salved a bit in the first event the next morning on day 8 of the Tokyo World Athletics Championships.In a tight 5-way race for the medals, women’s 20 km national champion Nanako Fujii took 15 seconds off her own NR to take bronze in 1:26:18, 24 seconds behind
After competing in four events, the Canadian was forced to pull out of the championships due to ongoing back issues
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This will be easy. Japan closes out its home soil World Athletics Championships with one last race, and one of its traditionally strong ones, the men’s 4×100 m relay.21:20 – Men’s 4×100 m Relay FinalPrognosis: This is the entry pool:Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Toray) – 9.96 (+0.5) – 4th, Heat 7, NationalsYoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) – 9.99 (+1.5) – 1st, NationalsYuhi Mori (Daito Bunka
