4 meet records fell on the second day of the 2025 National Sports Festival in Shiga. In the junior men’s pole vault, Naoya Inoue (Anan Hikari H.S.) was the only one to go higher than 4.80 m, and massively so. Inoue cleared 5.32 m on his 3rd attempt, setting a new MR and beating his closest competition by 52 cm.800 m NR holders Rin Kubo (Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S.) and Ko Ochiai (Komazawa Univ.)
Fresh off last weekend’s U20 National Championships, Anna Shubulchuk (Ushiku H.S.) and Rei Taya (Osaka Kunei Joshi Gakuin H.S.) were back in the junior women’s 2000 mSC to start off the first day of the 2025 National Sports Festival in Shiga. Shubulchuk, born in Japan to Slovakian and Bulgarian parents, won the 3000 mSC at the U20 Nationals in 9:57.11, while Taya set an U18 NR of 10:06.59 in the
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