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Athletics: Shimizu Logs 10.00 to Set U-18 World Record in Men's 100
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Japanese High Schooler Sorato Shimizu Clocks 10.00 Seconds in 100 Meters; Time Tops World U18 Best Performance
HIROSHIMA — Sorato Shimizu blazed to victory in 10.00 seconds in the boy’s 100 meters at the Inter High School Athletics Meet in Hiroshima on Saturday, putting the 16-year-old into a tie for fifth place on Japan’s all-time list.
16-Year-Old Track Phenom Sets World Record
Sorato Shimizu is a name to know in track and field. The 16-year-old sprinter hails from Japan and will very soon be running alongside the best runners in the sport as a high schooler. He qualified for the world championships with a U-18 world record! Shimizu was not previously on my radar before his most recent race. I did not even know his name! There are a lot of young athletes who burst onto the scene in track and field as an amateur but the…
Sorato Shimizu, the New 16-Year-Old Prodigy of Japanese Athletics that Runs 100 Meters in 10 Seconds
Japanese athletics is in celebration. In Japanese lands a new track phenomenon has emerged that at only 16 years of age is already able to run the test of the 100 meters in ten seconds exactly and sports fans are already rubbing their hands with the possible feats that the boy, called Sorato Shimizu , will be able to star in the near future. Born on February 8, 2009, he was achieving great time in the race queen of speed. Without going further, …
The young Japanese, 16-year-old Sorato Shimizu, broke a record with a closed time of 10.00, thus surpassing the American Christian Miller and Thai Puripol Boonson, who shared a record of 10.06, achieved in 2023. As a reference, the record in Chile in the adult category, is 10.10, and Sebastian Keitel reached it in 1998.
Sorato Shimizu, born in 2009, succeeds in the Inter-School High School Championship of the Japanese Country
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