Yusuke Suzuki broke the men's 20-km race walk world record in a meet on Sunday.
The 27-year-old Suzuki marked 1:16:36 at the All-Japan Race Walking meet in his hometown of Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture. The previous record was 1:17:02, set a week earlier in Arles, France, by Frenchman Yohann Diniz.
Suzuki competed in the 2012 London Olympics and took silver at last year's Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.