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Japanese Athletes in Action on Tokyo World Championships Day 5




It's a pretty light day of competition for Japan on day 5 of its home soil World Athletics Championships, with only 7 people in action.

19:10 / 20:45 - Men's Javelin Throw Qualification
Yuta Sakiyama (Ehime T&F Assoc.) - 87.16 m - 1st, Nationals
Roderick Genki Dean (Mizuno) - 84.66 m - 2nd, Nationals
Gen Naganuma (Suzuki) - 80.58 m - 3rd, Nationals

Prognosis: Sakiyama and Dean are high enough up the rankings that both should make the final. Naganuma just squeezed onto the team thanks to roll-downs and will likely not advance.

19:30 - Women's 200 m Heats
Abigail Fuuka Ido (Toho Ginko) - 22.79 (+1.0) - 1st, Nationals

Prognosis: The new NR holder, Ido was an addition to the team thanks to Japan's host country slots. Her NR of 22.79 is far from the slowest season best in the field, but it would take some really good luck for her to advance.

20:15 - Men's 200 m Heats
Towa Uzawa (JAL) - 20.11 (+0.9) - 1st, Nationals
Soshi Mizukubo (Miyazaki T&F Assoc.) - 20.14 (+0.1) - 7th, SF2, Nationals
Shota Iizuka (Mizuno) - 20.45 (+1.2) - 3rd, Nationals

Prognosis: Uzawa and Mizukubo should advance, but the heats are probably as far as 2010 world U20 champion Iizuka will go. It's amazing he's still able to get here, regardless of how he does.

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