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World Para Athletics Championships Day Five HighlightsLondon, England, 7/18/17
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Women's 100 m T47 Final(-0.2 m/s)
1. Deja Young (U.S.A.) - 12.39
2. Alicja Fiodorow (Poland) - 12.61
3. Lu Li (China) - 12.62 - PB
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7. Sae Tsuji (Japan) - 13.23

Men's 200 m T54 Final(-0.4 m/s)
1. Yassine Gharbi (Tunisia) - 24.86 - MR
2. Kenny van Weeghel (Netherlands) - 24.92
3. Leo Pekka Tahti (Finland) - 25.05
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8. Yuki Nishi (Japan) - 26.27

Men's 400 m T52 Final
1. Tomoki Sato (Japan) - 56.78 - MR
2. Raymond Martin (U.S.A.) - 57.21 (MR)
3. Hirokazu Ueyonabaru (Japan) - 1:02.27

Men's Long Jump T42 Final
1. Daniel Wagner (Denmark) - 6.50 - MR
2. Atsushi Yamamoto (Japan) - 6.44 (MR)
3. Leon Schaefer (Germany) - 6.25 m

Women's Discus Throw F44 Final
1. Juan Yao (China) - 39.72
2. Yue Yang (China) - 38.25
3. Sarah Edmiston (Australia) - 33.80 - AR
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8. Fumiko Takado (Japan) - 22.50

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World Para Athletics Championships Day Three HighlightsLondon, England, 7/16/17
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Women's 100 m T42 Final(+1.0 m/s)
1. Martina Caironi (Italy) - 14.65
2. Monica Contrafalto (Italy) - 15.35 - PB
3. Scout Bassett (U.S.A.) - 16.68
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5. Kaede Maegawa (Japan) - 16.92 - PB
7. Hitomi Onishi (Japan) - 17.39
8. Sayaka Murakami (Japan) - 17.50

Women's 200 m T13 Final(+0.2 m/s)
1. Leilia Adzhametova (Ukraine) - 24.63 - AR
2. Ilse Hayes (South Africa) - 24.94
3. Kym Crosby (U.S.A.) - 25.21 - PB
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5. Mana Sasaki (Japan) - 26.36 - AR
6. Tomomi Sato (Japan) - 26.99

Men's 1500 m T52 Final
1. Tomoki Sato (Japan) - 3:45.89 - MR
2. Ryamon Martin (U.S.A.) - 3:47.04
3. Hirokazu Ueyonabaru (Japan) - 4:01.56

Men's 1500 m T54 Final
1. Marcel Hug (Switzerland) - 3:04.33
2. Yassine Gharbi (Tunisia) - 3:04.58
3. Alhassane Balde (Germany) - 3:04.61
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7. Tomoki Suzuki (Japan) - 3:05.99

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 8-18
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Men
Hajimu Ashida - T47 Long Jump, 4 x 100 m Relay
Masayuki Higuchi - T54 800 m, 1500 m, 5000 m
Kota Hokinoue - T54 Marathon
Koso Kubo - T54 5000 m, Marathon
Hitoshi Matsunaga - T53 400 m, 800 m
Yoshifumi Nagao - T54 100 m, 400 m
Akikazu Noda - T52 400 m, 1500 m
Toshie Oi - F53 Shot Put
Keita Sato - T44 100 m, 4 x 100 m Relay
Tomoki Sato - T52 400 m, 1500 m
Masazumi Soejima - T54 Marathon
Toru Suzuki - T44 High Jump, 4 x 100 m Relay
Tomoki Tagawa - T47 100 m, 4 x 100 m Relay
Hirokazu Ueyonabaru - T52 100 m, 400 m, 1500 m
Atsushi Yamamoto - T42 100 m, Long Jump, 4 x 100 m Relay
Hiroyuki Yamamoto - T54 Marathon

Women
Haruka Kitaura - T34 100 m, 400 m
Yuka Kiyama - T52 100 m, 400 m
Kaede Maekawa - T42 100 m, Long Jump
Maya Nakanishi - T44 100 m, Long Jump
Kazumi Nakayama - T53 400 m, 800 m, 1500 m
Hitomi Onishi - T42 100 m, Long Jump
Chiaki Takada - T11 100 m, Long Jump
Saki Takakuwa - T…

by Brett Larner

World records fell in three of the five divisions of the Sept. 17 Beijing Paralympics Marathon on the final day of competition. The 95 athletes from the combined five classes began together in Tiananmen Square at 7:30 a.m. local time.

First to reach the Bird's Nest were the men's wheelchair competitors, with ten athletes entering the tunnel in a dense pack. Defending gold medalist Kurt Fearnley of Australia, Japan's Hiroki Sasahara and South Africa's Ernst Van Dyk battled for the medal positions, with Fearnley and Sasahara clocking identical times of 1:23:17, a PB for the Australian and SB for the Japanese. Fearnley was awarded the gold in the photo finish, Sasahara receiving the silver and Van Dyk the bronze after finishing just one second back. Japanese athletes in the lead pack also finished 5th, 6th and 7th. Veteran world record holder Heinz Frei of Switzerland, now in his 50's, was 14th in a creditable 1:25:43.

Next to finish were the women's …

by Brett Larner

Japan will field three athletes in the visually impaired division of the Sept. 17 Beijing Paralympics Marathon and eight in the two wheelchair divisions. Leading the team is visually impaired division defending gold medalist Yuichi Takahashi. Takahashi has said his target is 2:30 but will face serious competition from world record holder Henry Wanyoike of Kenya, who ran 2:31:31 earlier this season, as well as from Tunisia's Abderrahim Zhiou, 2:32:52, and Italy's Fabrizio Cocchi, 2:33:20.

Visually Impaired Division - T12
Yuichi Takahashi, 43, SB: 2:39:02
Masahito Niino, 51, SB: 2:49:05
Hiroaki Kajisa, 34, SB: 2:56:51

Wheelchair Division - T54
Masazumi Soejima, 38, SB: 1:21:23
Hiroki Sasahara, 34, SB: 1:29:12
Kota Hokinoue, 34, SB: 1:29:42
Hiroyuki Yamamoto, 42, SB: 1:30:40
Choke Yasuoka, 35, SB: 1:37:14
Jun Hiromichi, 34, SB: 1:39:37

Impaired Limb Mobility Wheelchair Division - T52
Toshihiro Takada, 43, SB: 1:44:04
Hirokazu Ueyonabaru, 37, SB: 1:44:55

Complete start lists for t…