Masatora Kawano
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| Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 October 1998 Hyuga, Japan[1] | ||||||||||||||
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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 racewalking athlete. In 2021, he represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,[2] finishing in 6th place in the men's 50 kilometres walk and setting a season best.[1]
Kawano won a silver medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 35 km race in an Asian record time of 2:23:15.[3]
References
- ^ a b "KAWANO Masatora". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Masatora Kawano". olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Athletics: Masatora Kawano wins 35km race walk silver at worlds", The Mainichi, 25 July 2022
External links
- Masatora Kawano at World Athletics
- Masatora Kawano at the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (in Japanese)
- Masatora Kawano at Olympics.com
- Masatora Kawano at Olympedia
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- Japanese male racewalkers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Japan
- Sportspeople from Miyazaki Prefecture
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade gold medalists for Japan
- Universiade silver medalists for Japan
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- 20th-century Japanese people
- 21st-century Japanese people
- Japanese athletics biography stubs