Hayato Sueyoshi anchored Japan to third place in the men's 5,000-meter relay in a short-track speedskating World Cup meet Sunday.
Yugo Shinohara, Takehiro Kodera, Takafumi Nishitani and Sueyoshi combined to clock a time of 7 minutes, 22.798 seconds to finish behind winner Canada (7:00.689) and China (7:01.785) at the season-opening event in South Korea.