With the Kanto Area being the heavy draw for prime highschool expertise because of the Hakone Ekiden, it isn’t a shock that its faculties dominate the national-level college ekidens. Out of 25 universities and two choose groups from throughout the nation ultimately November’s Nationwide College Ekiden, Kanto Area groups took the highest 14 spots, with solely Kokushikan College crushed by the Nationwide College Choose Staff which included some Kanto Area runners. The highest eight there, Komazawa College, Aoyama Gakuin College, Koku Gakuin College, Chuo College, Josai College, Soka College, Daito Bunka College and Tokyo Kokusai College, auto-qualified for the 2024 Nationals race, with the remainder having to run as we speak’s qualifying race to make it again.
Nittai College had an excellent group efficiency too, third after Warmth 1 and 4th by means of the subsequent three heats, returning to Nationals after lacking out final yr. In its first season below new head coach Yusuke Takabayashi, Rikkyo College was a shock in fifth, its probabilities getting a serious raise when Kotaro Hayashi and Hiroto Kuniyasu went 2-3 behind Ishida in Warmth 3. It was the primary time qualifying for Nationals at school historical past. The always-stable Teikyo College was sixth, pulling it off with solely runner, Hiroki Yamanaka in Warmth 3, making the highest 10 throughout all 4 heats.
Warmth 4’s largest drama was down on the cutoff line for qualifying, with solely 2 seconds separating Meiji College and Kanagawa College at first of the ultimate race. Kanagawa’s Reo Niizuma dropped off the primary group mid-race, however each Meiji runners Sosuke Hori and Hibiki Kikkawa did the identical a couple of laps later. It was as much as Kanagawa’s Haruto Miyamoto to open as a lot floor on Hori and Kikkawa as he may, and he executed an nearly nice race, shifting up by means of the primary pack and kicking exhausting to drop them within the dwelling straight. The one drawback was that he had miscounted laps, and after slowing to a post-finish line jog realized it wasn’t over. Over the ultimate lap he misplaced out to a lot of the primary pack, ending seventeenth in 29:04.01. Meiji’s Hori completed in 29:32.12 with Kikkawa subsequent in 29:44.97. Miyamoto needed to end inside 30:10 for Kanagawa to attain the seventh qualifying place, and he pulled that off simply with a 29:54.95 to ship his group again to Nationals after not getting there final yr.
Meiji was the highest non-qualifier, with Nihon College and Yamanashi Gakuin College ninth and tenth regardless of YGU’s James Mutuku and Nihon’s Shadrack Kipkemoi taking the highest two particular person locations in Warmth 4. Not one of the eight groups with Kenyans within the subject of 20 certified, mirroring the outcomes at Nationals itself final yr the place the highest 4 had all-Japanese lineups and the subsequent 4 had Kenyans. YGU, Juntendo College and Kokushikan College all did not re-qualify this yr, changed at Nationals by Nittai, Rikkyo and Kanagawa. Hosei College had been a contender to qualify, nevertheless it was shot down in Warmth 3 when Ikuto Shimizu suffered a foul fall at first that did sufficient harm for him to drop out mid-race. Similar to in an ekiden the performances of all eight runners depend, so even a single DNF eliminates the entire group.
56th Nationwide College Males’s Ekiden Kanto Area Qualifier
Sagamihara Gion Stadium, Kanagawa, 23 June 2024
groups scored on mixed occasions of all eight finishers
prime 7 groups qualify for Nationwide College Ekiden
Staff Outcomes
1. Tokai College – 3:55:28.21
2. Toyo College – 3:55:37.45
3. Waseda College – 3:55:50.18
4. Nittai College – 3:55:55.62
5. Rikkyo College – 3:56:19.26
6. Teikyo College – 3:56:45.83
7. Kanagawa College – 3:57:33.67
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8. Meiji College – 3:57:49.31
9. Nihon College – 3:58:33.67
10. Yamanashi Gakuin College – 3:59:04.04
11. Chuo College – 3:59:13.74
12. Surugadai College – 4:00:47.51
13. Reitaku College – 4:00:54.17
14. Tokyo Nogyo College – 4:01:21.18
15. Kokushikan College – 4:01:54.41
16. Senshu College – 4:02:41.42
17. Juntendo College – 4:03:18.86
18. Ryutsu Keizai College – 4:05:15.55
19. Asia College – 4:09:22.09
DNF – Hosei College
Warmth 1
1. Kaito Matsui (Toyo Univ.) – 29:25.69
2. Goki Higashihara (Meiji Univ.) – 29:28.79
3. Akifumi Takimoto (Kanagawa Univ.) – 29:29.70 – PB
4. Shunsuke Tajima (Nittai Univ.) – 29:31.62
5. Shu Nagamoto (Tokai Univ.) – 29:31.70
6. Keisuke Ando (Rikkyo Univ.) – 29:33.00
7. Ren Oiwa (Kanagawa Univ.) – 29:33.32
8. Daiki Murakami (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.) – 29:35.16
9. Ren Yamaguchi (Nittai Univ.) – 29:35.70
10. Takanobu Igarashi (Tokai Univ.) – 29:35.83
Warmth 2
1. Keigo Amimoto (Toyo Univ.) – 29:50.85
2. Makoto Takewari (Tokai Univ.) – 29:53.19
3. Haruto Ishizuka (Waseda Univ.) – 29:53.21
4. Yu Miyazaki (Toyo Univ.) – 29:53.97
5. Aoi Higaki (Tokai Univ.) – 29:59.19
6. Takanori Wakesu (Nittai Univ.) – 29:59.81
7. Anju Murota (Meiji Univ.) – 30:04.23
8. Ryosuke Nakanishi (Kanagawa Univ.) – 30:04.33
9. Shun Sakamoto (Chuo Gakuin Univ.) – 30:04.37
10. Koei Yahara (Hosei Univ.) – 30:05.59
Warmth 3
1. Kosuke Ishida (Toyo Univ.) – 28:58.11
2. Kotaro Hayashi (Rikkyo Univ.) – 29:04.32
3. Hiroto Kuniyasu (Rikkyo Univ.) – 29:04.86
4. Hiroki Yamanaka (Teikyo Univ.) – 29:08.74
5. Hiroto Yoshioka (Juntendo Univ.) – 29:08.74
6. Sorachi Suzuki (Tokai Univ.) – 29:10.15
7. Shunpei Yamaguchi (Waseda Univ.) – 29:11.26 – PB
8. Kazuki Uragami (Nittai Univ.) – 29:11.28 – PB
9. Taishi Ito (Waseda Univ.) – 29:11.72
10. Manato Takata (Nihon Univ.) – 29:12.19 – PB
11. Yuto Kajitani (Tokai Univ.) – 29:15.69
12. Hiro Konda (Chuo Gakuin Univ.) – 29:17.63
13. Kota Nakajima (Kokushikan Univ.) – 29:18.40
14. Kazuki Aya (Meiji Univ.) – 29:22.91
15. Yudai Hara (Teikyo Univ.) – 29:24.26
16. Shotaro Futamura (Nittai Univ.) – 29:27.26
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DNF – Ikuto Shimizu (Hosei Univ.)
Warmth 4
1. James Mutuku (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.) – 28:08.12
2. Shadrack Kipkemoi (Nihon Univ.) – 28:25.28
3. Johnson Mogeni (Asia Univ.) – 28:33.00
4. Tomonori Yamaguchi (Waseda Univ.) – 28:36.15
5. Reishi Yoshida (Chuo Gakuin Univ.) – 28:36.32
6. Stephen Lemaiyan (Surugadai Univ.) – 28:39.86
7. David Shunqeya (Reitaku Univ.) – 28:44.70
8. Ryota Kobayashi (Toyo Univ.) – 28:54.89
9. Ryuto Hirashima (Nihon Univ.) – 28:56.14
10. Kazuma Takeda (Hosei Univ.) – 28:57.70 – PB
11. Ren Umezaki (Toyo Univ.) – 28:58.71
12. Judah Hyodo (Tokai Univ.) – 28:59.42
13. Tasuku Yamazaki (Nittai Univ.) – 28:59.96
14. Akito Noda (Hosei. Univ.) – 29:01.28
15. Peter Kamau (Kokushikan Univ.) – 29:01.88
16. Hisaya Hanaoka (Tokai Univ.) – 29:03.04
17. Haruto Miyamoto (Kanagawa Univ.) – 29:04.01
18. Shota Fukushima (Teikyo Univ.) – 29:05.15
19. Shinsaku Kudo (Waseda Univ.) – 29:07.55
20. Kento Baba (Rikkyo Univ.) – 29:09.48
21. Teruki Shimada (Teikyo Univ.) – 29:11.28
22. Ryu Hasegawa (Ryutsu Keizai Univ.) – 29:15.16
23. Taiga Tosen (Surugadai Univ.) – 29:15.99
24. Yosuke Harada (Tokyo Nogyo Univ.) – 29:18.90
25. Yu Fukahori (Tokyo Nogyo Univ.) – 29:23.43 – PB
26. Daisuke Inazuka (Rikkyo Univ.) – 29:23.49
27. Tomohiro Arai (Senshu Univ.) – 29:23.76
28. Duncan Maina (Senshu Univ.) – 29:24.72
