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Tokyo World Athletics Championships Day 5 Japanese Results


Only 7 Japanese athletes were in action across 3 events on the fifth day of the Tokyo World Championships. In the men's javelin throw qualification round, all 3 on the squad, Yuta Sakiyama, Roderick Genki Dean and Gen Naganuma, failed to make it to the final. Sakiyama was the best of them at 77.61 m for 15th in group A, Dean throwing 77.01 m for 16th in the same group and Naganuma 74.70 m for 17th in group B, putting him at 36th out of 37 competitors overall. Japan's hopes now rest on the women's javelin team.

There was better luck in the women's 200 m heats, where Abigail Fuuka Ido, running on a host country slot, unexpectedly qualified for the semifinals with a 22.98 (+0.0) for 5th in Heat 5. That was enough to give her a time qualifying spot, and not the last one.

Towa Uzawa came in ranked much higher in the men's 200 m field than Ido was in the women's, and he matched her performance in the heats with a 20.39 (+0.0) for 3rd in Heat 6 to move on to the semifinals. No luck for the other two men in the 200 m, though, as Soshi Mizukubo ran 20.51 (-0.3) for 7th in Heat 3 and veteran Shota Iizuka 20.64 (-0.2) for 6th in Heat 1.

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