At the World Athletics Championships in Hungary, within the males’s 400m preliminaries, 28-year-old Kentaro Sato set a brand new Japanese file of 44.77 seconds, ending second within the first group and advancing to the semi-finals. Ta.
Sato broke the Japanese file of 44.78 seconds set by Susumu Takano in 1991 by 1/one centesimal of a second for the primary time in 32 years.

