Japanese masters nationals results: Willie-san, etc.
Willie Banks may have been the star of the show, but the Japanese masters nationals last month also featured an M95 sprinter/thrower and some pretty sharp marks. My Asian correspondent Quick Sand sent these results (in Excel format) and reports: “The Japan Vets Championships was held in a vast stadium and sports park outside Sendai in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan. It was a beautiful facility, built for the football World Cup, with a good practice track and an indoor practice straightaway. Excellent organization. I don’t know how many athletes they had, but it was a couple of thousand. The meet program was about 2cm thick.â€
Quick explained some of the acronyms found in the results file:
“They keep two kinds of age group records: national and meet. One of our Hong Kong racewalkers set a new meet record, but the national records are reserved for Japanese. If you look on about line 200 of the file you’ll see that they provide a separate Japanese-only classification where foreigners were competing. The foreigners could get the medals, though. Also, the first 6 in each event got a very nice hand-calligraphed certificate with their name and time.â€
Calligraphy?
Cool!
Sorry for the lack of names in the file. The names were listed in Japanese characters originally.
But the marks are legible. Gives you an idea of your potential competition next summer in Riccione.
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Using my handy translator (Mac Widget), the results said that Simogawara broke the M100 record in the discus with a throw of 9.5 meters. Trent Lane is going to blow that record out of the water!
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