The athletics component of the Hangzhou Asian Games wrapped Wednesday and Thursday with road events spread across both days and the final evening of track and field action Wednesday. In road racing, Japan's Subaru Ishida was the top individual finisher in the 35 km race walk mixed team event Wednesday morning, beating China's Qin Wang by just 16 seconds in 2:31:12. China's top woman Shijie Qieyang took the individual win in 2:45:13 and beat Japan's Masumi Fuchise by 5:46, giving China the team gold in 5:16:41 to Japan's 5:22:11. India was a distant bronze in 5:51:15. The second individual Japanese woman, Maika Yagi was 4th in 2:59:52, with Hayato Katsuki a DNF after receiving a penalty. The marathons took place Thursday morning. The men's race was a tight pack through 38 km that included 2:06 men Yohei Ikeda of Japan and Shumi Dechasa of Bahrain, 2:07 runners Jie He and Shaouyui Yang of China and Japan's Toshiki Sadakata , 2:08 Mongolian Gantulga D...
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