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London, England, 8/11/12 click here for complete results Men's 50 km Race Walk 1. Sergey Kirdyapkin (Russia) - 3:35:59 - OR 2. Jared Tallent (Australia) - 3:36:53 - PB 3. Tianfeng Si (China) - 3:37:16 - PB 4. Robert Heffernan (Ireland) - 3:37:54 - NR 5. Igor Erokhin (Russia) - 3:37:54 - PB ----- 10. Koichiro Morioka (Japan) - 3:43:14 - PB DQ - Yuki Yamazaki (Japan) DQ - Takayuki Tanii (Japan) Women's 20 km Race Walk 1. Elena Lashmanova (Russia) - 1:25:02 - WR 2. Olga Kaniskina (Russia) - 1:25:09 3. Shenjie Qieyang (China) - 1:25:16 - AR 4. Hong Liu (China) - 1:26:00 5. Anisya Kirdyapkina (Russia) - 1:26:26 ----- 11. Masumi Fuchise (Japan) - 1:28:41 18. Mayumi Kawasaki (Japan) - 1:30:20 37. Kumi Otoshi (Japan) - 1:33:50 Men's 4x100 m Relay Final 1. Jamaica - 36.84 - WR 2. U.S.A. - 37.04 - NR 3. Trinidad & Tobago - 38.12 4. France - 38.16 5. Japan (Yamagata/Eriguchi/Takahira/Iizuka) - 38.35 6. Netherlands - 38.39 7. Australia - 38.43 DQ - ...

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by Brett Larner Having moved up to the A-list Team Fujitsu this year, women's race walker Mayumi Kawasaki captured the biggest headlines at the 2009 National Jitsugyodan Track and Field Championships with a national record in the 10000 m walk . Breaking her own national record from 2008 by over 30 seconds, Kawasaki set a mark of 43:21.90 to take the title in the event's first appearance at the Championships. Another four meet records were set in other events. Kawasaki's male teammates at Fujitsu ran a meet record 39.55 to win the men's 4x100 m relay . Team members Naoki Tsukahara , Shinji Takahira and Yoshihiro Horigome also won the individual titles in the 100 m , 200 m and 400 m , while Takahira and Horigome were also on Fujitsu's winning team in the 4x400 m relay along with the 4x100 m team's fourth man, Yohei Miyazawa . Women's 400 m national record holder Asami Tanno (Team Natureal) took nearly a second off the nine year old meet record to win i...

Click here to enter JRN's World Championships marathon prediction contest for a chance to win a 2009 Japanese national team singlet. by Brett Larner Japan made little impact on the second day of competition at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin as its sprinters came up flat. Click event in summaries below for complete results. -Beijing Olympics men's 4x100m relay bronze medalist Naoki Tsukahara had vowed to become the first Japanese sprinter to break 10.0 seconds in the open men's 100 m and to make the final at the World Championships. Despite making the semi final comfortably, Tsukahara had an off run as he finished last in his semi final heat in only 10.25. - Women's 100 m national record holder Chisato Fukushima became the first Japanese woman to advance to the quarter final in a world-level championships 100 m but just missed out on making the semi final by 0.03 seconds. 2009 national champion Momoko Takahashi did not advance past the first round of heats. - ...

by Brett Larner Racewalker Mayumi Kawasaki of Team Ebisawa Seisakujo marked the biggest result of the Hokuren Distance Challenge series` second competition, held Sunday in Shibetsu, Hokkaido. Kawasaki set a mark of 44:04.15 in the women`s 10000 m racewalk, breaking the old Japanese national record by over 25 seconds. Men`s 10000 m racewalk victor Koichiro Morioka of Team Fujitsu likewise had a strong performance with his 39:32.08 finish time, less than 5 seconds off the national record. Team Daihatsu`s Ryoko Kisaki joined the list of contenders for the Beijing Olympics team with her Olympic B-standard 32:12.14 win in the women`s 10000 m. Winning times in other events were less remarkable as many athletes used the meet simply as a tune-up for the upcoming National Track and Field Championships. Top finishers in each event are listed below; complete results are available here . The Hokuren Distance Challenge continues June 11 in Fukagawa, Hokkaido. Men`s 1500 m 1. Yasuhiro Tago (Team Ch...