Like at the Paris Olympics, there’s no shortage of top 8 placings by Japanese athletes so far at the Lima World U20 Championships, but no medals yet. One of 4 Japanese athletes in action in finals on the third day of the championships, Koki Kanai was 70 cm out of the medals in the men’s triple jump, going 15.60 m (+1.8) for 7th in the final. Gold medalist Ethan Olivier of New Zealand set a new
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Only one Japanese athlete was in action in finals on the second day of the Lima World U20 Championships. After making it through the heats and semifinals in the men’s 100 m, Naoki Nishioka turned in the highest placing by a Japanese athlete so far in Lima, taking 5th in the final in 10.43 (-0.9). South Africans Bayanda Walaza and Bradley Nkoana took gold and bronze in 10.19 and 10.26, with
