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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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by Brett Larner

The Japanese athletics team at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics came up short of scoring gold, with a final tally of four silver and three bronze medals. Tomoki Sato led the team with a pair of silvers in the men's T52 400 m and 1500 m, with another highlight coming from the bronze medal-winning men's T42-47 4x100 m relay team.  A complete breakdown of Japanese finalists in athletics at the Rio Paralympics:

Rio de Janeiro Paralympics Athletics
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 8-18, 2016
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Women's T33/34 100 m - Sept. 10 -0.1 m/s
1. Hannah Cockroft (Great Britain) - 17.42
2. Kare Adenegan (Great Britain) - 18.29
3. Alexa Halko (U.S.A.) - 18.81
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7. Haruka Kitaura (Japan) - 20.23

Men's T42 100 m - Sept. 15 -0.2 m/s
1. Scott Reardon (Australia) - 12.26
2. Daniel Wagner (Denmark) - 12.32
3. Richard Whitehead (Great Britain) - 12.32
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7. Atsushi Yamamoto (Japan) - 12.84

Women's T45/46/47 100 m - Sept. 11 +0.2 m/s
1. Deja Young…