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Paris Olympics Days 6 Japanese Results



Day 6 of athletics at the Paris Olympics saw almost every Japanese athlete eliminated, with only one moving on thanks to a successful appeal. After missing out on making the 5000 m final, Nozomi Tanaka had a lucky break in the first women's 1500 m heat when she collided with another runner with 200 m to go. Although Tanaka finished 11th in 4:04.28, she was advanced to the semifinals on appeal. Yume Goto ran a PB of 4:09.41 for 13th in Heat 2 and will run the repechage round.

In the men's javelin throw, Roderick Genki Dean threw a season best 82.48 m in the first qualification group, unluckily coming in at 13th and missing a place in the field of 12 for the final. With no repechage round to help him out Dean's first Olympics since London 2012 comes to an end. Women's long jump NR holder Sumire Hata jumped 6.31 m (+0.4) for 26th in the qualifying round and likewise missed out on a place in the final.

Two of the three Japanese men in the 110 mH made the semifinals, but the 3rd man Shunya Takayama had to run his event's repechage round. Takayama was 4th-fastest across the three repechage heats at 13.45 (-1.1) for 3rd in Heat 3, but with only the two fastest in each heat going to the semifinal he failed to advance.

Daiki Ogawa improved on his first-round performance in the men's 400 mH repechage with a 49.25 for 5th in Heat 1 but didn't make the semifinals. Kaito Tsutsue and Ken Toyoda both sat the repechage round out, Toyoda having sustained an injury in the heats.

2010 world U20 champion Shota Iizuka ran what was probably his last Olympic race in the men's 200 m repechage round, 4th in Heat 1 in 20.72 (+1.0). Koki Ueyama was 4th in Heat 2 in 20.92 (+0.6), neither of them making the semifinals.

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