Masatora Kawano
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| Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 October 1998 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Racewalking | |||||||||||||||||
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Masatora Kawano (川野 将虎, born 23 October 1998) is a Japanese race walker.
Career
Kawano represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,[2] finishing in 6th place in the 50 km walk and setting a season best.[1]
Kawano won a silver medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene in the 35 km walk with an Asian record time of 2:23:15. [3] He then won a bronze medal in the 35 km walk at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
He is the Japanese national record holder for the 50 km walk with a time of 3:36:45 in 2019.
On 27 October 2024, Kawano broke the world record for the 35 km walk in Takahata, Japan with a time of 2:21:47.[4]
References
- ^ a b "KAWANO Masatora". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Masatora Kawano". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Athletics: Masatora Kawano wins 35km race walk silver at worlds", The Mainichi, 25 July 2022
- ^ Ratified: world records for Chebet, Duplantis, McLaughlin-Levrone, Chepngetich and Kawano, 12 December 2024
External links
- Masatora Kawano at World Athletics
- Masatora Kawano at JAAF (in Japanese) (in English)
- Masatora Kawano – Paris 2024 at JAAF (in Japanese)
- Masatora Kawano at Olympics.com
- Masatora Kawano at InterSportStats
- Masatora Kawano at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
- Masatora Kawano at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)
- Masatora Kawano on Instagram