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1923 Far Eastern Championship Games The 1923 Far Eastern Championship Games was the sixth edition of the regional multi-sport event, contested between China, Japan and the Philippines, and was held from 21–25 May in Osaka, Empire of Japan. It was the first and only time that Osaka ...

, the athletics events were held in Osaka, Japan in May.Bell, Daniel (2003). ''Encyclopedia of International Games''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. . A total of 19 men's 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.Far Eastern Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-18. 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

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in a games record.

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extended his run of victories in both the 100 and 220-yard

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s, becoming double sprint champion for a fourth time in a row. Katsuo Okazaki, defended his mile run title and went one better than his 1923 880-yards runner-up finish to achieve a middle-distance double. He later represented Japan at the

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and went on to become the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mikio Oda emerged as a top international athlete with wins in the long jump and triple jump, as well as a high jump bronze. He would later go on to become the first individual Olympic champion from Asia at the

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, the pole vault winner here, was Japan's flag bearer at that games.Yonetaro Nakazawa

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. Retrieved on 2014-12-24. Japan's

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defended his title in the five-mile run from the 1921 games and Filipino decathlete

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also achieved that feat in his event.

Medal summary

References

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