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Yusuke Suzuki (鈴木 雄介, Suzuki Yūsuke, born 2 January 1988) is a Japanese racewalker. He has represented Japan in the 20 km event twice at the World Championships in Athletics and competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Sep 29, 2019 · Yusuke Suzuki created history on the streets of Doha as he became the first Japanese man in history to win the 50km race walk at an IAAF World Athletics Championships.
Mar 14, 2015 · Japan's Yusuke Suzuki broke the 20km race walk world record* at the Asian Race Walking Championships in his home town of Nomi on Sunday (15), exactly one week after Yohann Diniz set the previous mark.
Mar 19, 2021 · Yusuke Suzuki is unrepentant about the fast starts in races that cost him in the past. In fact, the world 20km race walk record-holder promises more of the same as he bids for an Olympic gold at 50km to go with his World Athletics Championships triumph in Doha.
Nov 12, 2020 · Now, after 90 years, race walker SUZUKI Yusuke is the only Japanese world record holder in an Olympic sport. In 2015, during a men’s 20km race walk event in Japan, Suzuki set the world record of 1:16:36, which to this day is yet to be broken. But what is it like to break a world record?
Mar 15, 2015 · NOMI, Japan (AP) — Yusuke Suzuki of Japan broke the 20-kilometer race walk world record Sunday at the Asian Race Walking Championships. Suzuki won the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in his home town with a time of 1 hour, 16 minutes, 36 seconds, a mark 26 seconds faster than that set by Yohann Diniz of France just a week ago.
Yusuke Suzuki became the first Japanese race walker to win a world title, making a bold move in the early stages to build a lead that largely went unchallenged. Portugal’s Joao Vieira, making his 11th World Championships appearance at the age of 43, came through to finish second, becoming the oldest medallist ever at the World Championships.
