{{Short description|Japanese racewalker (born 1998)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Masatora Kawano | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age |1998|10|23|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Hyūga, Miyazaki|Hyuga]], Japan<ref name=tokyo2020/> | nationality = Japanese | sport = [[Sport of athletics|Athletics]] | event = [[Racewalking]] | club = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's [[Sport of athletics|athletics]]}} {{MedalCountry|{{JPN}}}} {{Medal|Competition|[[World Athletics Championships|World Championships]]}} {{MedalSilver|[[2022 World Athletics Championships|2022 Eugene]]|[[2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's 35 kilometres walk|35 km walk]]}} {{MedalBronze|[[2023 World Athletics Championships|2023 Budapest]]|[[2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's 35 kilometres walk|35 km walk]]}} }}
'''Masatora Kawano''' (川野 将虎, born 23 October 1998) is a Japanese [[racewalking|race walker]].
==Career== Kawano represented Japan at the [[2020 Summer Olympics]] in [[Tokyo]],<ref name=olympedia>{{cite web |title=Masatora Kawano |website=[[Olympedia]] |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/144520 |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref> finishing in 6th place in the [[Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk|50 km walk]] and setting a season best.<ref name=tokyo2020>{{cite web |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/athlete-profile-n1313116-kawano-masatora.htm |work=[[Tokyo 2020 Olympics]] |title=KAWANO Masatora |access-date=5 August 2021 |archive-date=5 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805152826/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/athlete-profile-n1313116-kawano-masatora.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Kawano won a silver medal at the [[2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's 35 kilometres walk|2022 World Athletics Championships]] in [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]] in the 35 km walk with an Asian record time of 2:23:15. <ref name=mainichi>{{citation |title=Athletics: Masatora Kawano wins 35km race walk silver at worlds |url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220725/p2g/00m/0sp/025000c |newspaper=[[Mainichi Shimbun|The Mainichi]] |date=July 25, 2022}}</ref> 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 kilometres race walk|50 km walk]] with a time of 3:36:45 in 2019.
On 27 October 2024, Kawano broke the world record for the [[35 kilometres race walk|35 km walk]] in [[Takahata]], Japan with a time of 2:21:47.<ref>{{citation |title=Ratified: world records for Chebet, Duplantis, McLaughlin-Levrone, Chepngetich and Kawano |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/ratified-world-records-chebet-duplantis-mclaughlin-levrone-chepngetich-kawano |date=December 12, 2024}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{World Athletics}} * {{JAAF|masatora_kawano}} * [https://www.jaaf.or.jp/olympic/paris2024/athletes/profile/masatora_kawano/ Masatora Kawano – Paris 2024] at [[Japan Association of Athletics Federations|JAAF]] {{in lang|ja}} * {{Olympics.com|masatora-kawano}} * {{InterSportStats}} * {{Team Japan athletes|kawanomasatora}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20240730145208/https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/masatora-kawano_1919901 Masatora Kawano] at the [[Paris 2024 Summer Olympics]] (archived, [https://paris2024.rtve.es/es/paris-2024/atleta/masatora-kawano_1919901 alternate link]) * {{Instagram}}
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