Masatora Kawano

Masatora Kawano is a Japanese race walker.

Career

Kawano represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, 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.
Kawano won a silver medal at the 2022 [World Athletics Championships – Men's 35 kilometres walk|2022 World Athletics Championships] in Eugene in the 35 km walk with an Asian record time of 2:23:15. 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 km walk with a time of 3:36:45 in 2019.
On 27 October 2024, Kawano broke the world record for the 35 km walk in Takahata, Japan with a time of 2:21:47.