Athletics at the 1923 Far Eastern Championship Games

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VI Far Eastern Championship Games
Prince Chichibu at the games
DatesMay 1923
Host cityOsaka, Japan
Events19
Participation3 nations

1923 Far Eastern Championship Games

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athletics events were contested at the competition. It was the last time that track events were conducted over imperial distances, as the competition aligned with international standards in 1925 and began using metric distances. The triple jump event was contested for the first time.[2]

Japan was the foremost nation in the athletics competition on this occasion. The hosts won twelve of the nineteen events and had a gold or silver medallist in all but three of the contests. This included a complete medal sweep of all middle- and long-distance track events. The Philippines, the champions at the previous edition, won six gold medals and ten silver medals. The Chinese had their worst showing yet in athletics, managing just two medals. As last place finishers, they received a bronze for the 220-yard relay. Yu Huaian was their only individual medallist, although he performed well by winning the high jump in a games record.[2]

1928 Amsterdam Olympics.[2][4] Yonetaro Nakazawa, the pole vault winner here, was Japan's flag bearer at that games.[5]

Japan's Nobuyuki Yoshioka defended his title in the five-mile run from the 1921 games and Filipino decathlete Juan Taduran also achieved that feat in his event.[2]

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 yards  Fortunato Catalon (PHI) 10.4  Seisei Takagi [ja] (JPN) ???  Noriji Omura (JPN) ???
220 yards straight  Fortunato Catalon (PHI) 22.2  Seisei Takagi [ja] (JPN) ???  Noriji Omura (JPN) ???
440 yards  Tokushige Noto (JPN) 52.0  Francisco Danao (PHI) ???  Valentin Malinao (PHI)
 Hideo Matsushige (JPN)		 ???
880 yards  Katsuo Okazaki (JPN) 2:02.2  Kikuo Toda (JPN) ???  Tokushige Noto (JPN) ???
One mile  Katsuo Okazaki (JPN) 4:39.4  Shigeharu Goyoda (JPN) ???  Hidesuburo Sato (JPN) ???
Five miles  Nobuyuki Yoshioka (JPN) 27:07.0  Kenichi Shimo (JPN) ???  Shomon Nawada (JPN) ???
120 yd hurdles  Paulino Fernandez (PHI) 17.2  Joichi Enohara (JPN) ???  Pedro Abiera (PHI) ???
220 yd hurdles straight  Emilio Bucoy (PHI) 27.4  Juan Escamos (PHI) ???  Shozo Matsukawa (JPN) ???
4×220 yd relay  Japan (JPN) 1:33.2  Philippines (PHI) ???  China (CHN) ???
4×400 yd relay  Japan (JPN) 3:32.8  Philippines (PHI) ??? Only 2 finishers
High jump  Yu Huaian (CHN) 1.75 m  Rufino Nollido (PHI) 1.72 m  Mikio Oda (JPN) 1.70 m
Pole vault  Yonetaro Nakazawa (JPN) 3.40 m  Antonio Alo (PHI) 3.32 m  Mala (PHI) 3.32 m
Long jump  Mikio Oda (JPN) 6.90 m  Simon Santos (PHI) 6.88 m  Sogo Omoto (JPN) 6.80 m
Triple jump  Mikio Oda (JPN) 14.27 m  Aguedo Torres (PHI) 13.24 m  Simon Santos (PHI) 13.20 m
Shot put  Tadaomi Futamura (JPN) 13.71 m  Arturo Roa (PHI) 13.03 m  Sebastian Santos (PHI) 12.99 m
Discus throw  Regino Birtulfo (PHI) 36.46 m  Yoshio Okita (JPN) 35.64 m  Kaizo Ito (JPN) 34.78 m
Javelin throw  Katsuji Iwai (JPN) 50.78 m  Santoku Fukuma (JPN) 49.98 m  Emilio Silverio (PHI) 49.16 m
Pentathlon  Seiichi Ueda (JPN) 15 pts  Hiroshi Masuda (JPN) 18 pts  Francisco Danao (PHI) 19 pts
Decathlon  Juan Taduran (PHI) 5211 pts  Juan Escamos (PHI) 5002 pts  Hiroshi Masuda (JPN) 4993 pts

References

  1. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4
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  2. ^ a b c d e Far Eastern Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-18.
  3. ^ Katsuo Okazaki. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-12-22.
  4. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2010-04-26). Interview with Mikio Oda, first Japanese Olympic gold medallist. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-12-24.
  5. Sports-Reference.com
    . Retrieved on 2014-12-24.
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