Nanako Fujii won bronze in the women's 20-kilometer race walk Saturday at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, setting a new Japanese record time of 1 hour, 26 minutes and 18 seconds.
The 26-year-old became the first Japanese woman to capture a medal in a race walk event at the World Athletics Championships or the Olympics.
Fujii broke her own previous Japanese record, set in February, by 15 seconds.
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