3 of those golds were team medals, but considering the absence of Japanese athletes in the 5000 m and men in the 10000 m it was still overall one of the better World University Games in Japan's record books.
The 27-year-old men's Fifth Stage winner Yamada last won when he was 20. A year later he suffered an injury to his right knee and decided that that year's Fuji Mountain Race would be his last competitive race.
Eilish McColgan is likely to be particularly familiar to Berliners as the winner of the 2023 GENERALI BERLIN HALBMARATHON. McColgan's best time of 30:19 minutes is well below the course record set by Hanne Verbruggen last year with 31:34 minutes.
Koki Fujihara (Toyo Univ.) brought home another medal in the men's long jump. Opening with a solid 8.00 (-0.8) jump, Fujihara sat in 1st through the first 3 rounds until China's Heng Shu dropped a 8.07 m (-0.6) jump in the 4th round.
Cathy Bergen, 85, set two women's world masters 85-89 records at the USATF Masters Outdoor Championships, running 17.97 in the 100 and clearing 1.01/3-3.25 in the high jump.
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