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  Summer seemed to finally break right on the autumnal equinox, just in time for the second day of the 2023 National Corporate Track and Field Championships in Gifu. Things kicked off with the women's 10000 m race walk, where Kaori Kawazoe (SDF Academy) took the national title in a leisurely 48:26.31 by 8 seconds over Nami Kumagai (Sekisho). The men's 10000 mRW didn't happen for another 7 hours, but it saw MR holder Koki Ikeda (Asahi Kasei) take the win in 38:46.81 with Ryo Hamanishi (Sunbelx) 8 seconds behind. WR holder Eiki Takahashi (Fujitsu) was 6th in 41:56.86, with Daisuke Matsunaga (Fujitsu) 8th in 42:50.60 in his final race before retiring and becoming an assistant coach at Toyo University . The men's 100 m heats saw some of the aging greats of Japanese men's sprinting back in action after sitting on the bench while younger talent represented in Budapest last month. NR holder Ryota Yamagata (Seiko) won H1 in 10.26 (+2.4), 2010 World U20 Championships...

In what was considered Japan's best chance of medaling in Tokyo Olympics athletics, the Japanese men came up with a 6th-place finish by national record holder Masatora Kawano  in the final Olympic men's 50 km race walk. 2018 Asian champion Hayato Katsuki  had an early setback, losing a shoe in the first couple of km and never making his way back into contact. Kawano and national champion Satoshi Maruo  stayed near the front of the main pack until a move from Canadian Evan Dunfee  began to break it up.  Maruo soon fell off, but Kawano looked to be one of the medal contenders as the pack turned into five behind breakaway leader Dawid Tomala  of Poland. Without warning, around 42 km Kawano suddenly pulled off the course and went to his hands and knees to vomit. He could have been out of it at that point, but Kawano quickly bounced back up and set off to regain contact. He did, but the effort cost him in the final push. Tomala took gold in 3:50:08, with Germa...

2014 Asian Junior Athletics Championships Japanese Medalists Summary Taipei, Taiwan, June 12-15, 2014 click here for complete results Men's 10000 m   - June 13 1. Hazuma Hattori (Japan) - 31:10.60 2. Sharwan Kharb (India) - 31:52.37 3. Yaser Salem Bagharab (Yemen) - 32:22.42 4. Tzu-Ming Wang (Taiwan) - 36:38.02 5. Han-Hsuan Li (Taiwan) - 38:40.29 Women's 5000 m   - June 12 1. Maki Izumida (Japan) - 16:18.345 1. Daria Maslova (Kyrgyzstan) - 16:18.345 3. Ji Hyang Kim (North Korea) - 16:28.13 4. Sakiho Tsutsui (Japan) - 16:35.79 5. Sanjivini Jadhav (India) - 17:00.75 Men's 5000 m   - June 15 1. Musaab Adam M Ali (Qatar) - 14:34.07 2. Makoto Mitsunobu (Japan) - 14:38.99 3. Sharwan Kharb (India) - 14:39.41 4. Khalil Naseri (Iran) - 14:58.88 5. Wei Zhang (China) - 15:29.28 Women's 3000 m   - June 15 1. Daria Maslova (Kyrgyzstan) - 9:16.23 2. Hanami Sekine (Japan) - 9:17.55 3. Sanjivini Jadhav (India) - 9:35.02 4. Jin Hyang Pak (North...