The FISU World University Games is the second-largest multi-sport event after the Olympics, but the pride and national team experience comes at a cost
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Day two of the Gumi Asian Athletics Championships got started with a pair of Japanese medals in the men’s hammer throw. China’s Wang Qi built up from an opening throw of 69.80 m, throwing further every attempt until his winning 74.50 m in the last round. Shota Fukuda sat in 2nd at 71.89 m after his second attempt, but teammate Tatsuto Nakagawa overtook him with a final throw of 71.97 m for silver
After a 378-km battle, Australia’s Kendall Picado Fallas and Germany’s Kim Gottwald were put on thunderstorm watch–and called it a tie
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The Gumi Asian Athletics Championships got moving with a silver in the men’s 20 km race walk from #2 ranked Kento Yoshikawa, part of a breakaway trio with China’s Wang Zhaozhao and India’s Servin Sebasthiyan. The #1-ranked Wang pulled away in the last km to win in 1:20:37, Yoshikawa close behind in 1:20:46 and Sebasthiyan taking bronze in 1:21:14. Ryo Hamanishi was just out of the medals in 4th
