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Cali 22 World U20 Championships Day 3 Japanese Results


No Japanese athlete made it to any of the five finals on day three of the Cali 22 World U20 Championships, but qualifying rounds did see most of the athletes in action advance to their next rounds on upcoming days.

In the men's 3000 m, both H.S NR holder Keita Sato and #3 Hiroto Yoshioka placed 5th in their heats to take auto-qualifying spots, Sato in Heat 2 with an 8:00.17 SB and Yoshioka in Heat 1 in 8:15.95. Both men in the 3000 m steeplechase also qualified for the final, Ryotaro Onuma taking an auto-qualifying place at 3rd in Heat 2 in 9:00.02 and Asahi Kuroda getting through on time in the fastest Heat 3 with an 8:51.04 for 5th. Likewise in the men's 400 m hurdles heats, Sojiro Moritaka 2nd in Heat 3 in 51.04 for a semi-final auto-qualifying spot and Daiki Ogawa through on time in 51.52 for 4th in Heat 4. In the women's hammer throw, Raika Murakami was a surprise, throwing a 61.28 m SB for 10th of the twelve qualifiers.

Moe Matsuoka narrowly missed the women's 400 m hurdles final, the fastest non-qualifier at 58.30 for 3rd in Semi-final 3. Ion Kondo was 0.12 m off the last qualifying spot in the women's long jump and only 21st overall at 6.01 m -0.5. Both Masataka Tomoda and Shion Arita were shut out of the men's 400 m final, Tomoda 4th in SF3 in 46.62 and Arita 8th in SF1 in 47.97. The only Japanese man entered in the 200 m heats, Shunki Tateno was a DNS.

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