Masatora Kawano

Masatora Kawano

Personal information
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1998-10-23) 23 October 1998 (age 26) Hyuga, Japan[1]
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Racewalking
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Japan World Championships 2022 Eugene 35 km walk 2023 Budapest 35 km walk

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.

References

1. "KAWANO Masatora". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
2. "Masatora Kawano". olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
3. "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 JAAF (in Japanese)
• Masatora Kawano – Paris 2024 at JAAF (in Japanese)
• Masatora Kawano – Tokyo 2020 at JAAF (in Japanese)
• Masatora Kawano at Olympics.com
• Masatora Kawano at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
• Masatora Kawano – Paris 2024 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
• Masatora Kawano – Tokyo 2020 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)