Within the girls’s race, final yr’s 2nd-placer Rieko Koshi led Yoshizumi by 19 seconds on the finish of the highway part at round 11.5 km. However on the path part after that Yoshizumi handed her and constructed a successful result in rating her sixth Fuji Mountain Race title since 2017. 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016 winner Mina Ogawa was 2nd in 3:21:44, with Koshi hanging on to make the rostrum once more in 3:25:02 for third.
From the Fifth Stage to the Eighth Stage checkpoint Hoffman was a minute and a half quicker than Omi, splitting a wonderful 58:37, and closed to inside two minutes. Within the final kilometer from the Eighth Stage to the summit Hoffman outran Omi by 67 seconds, however Omi held on to make it two in a row, despite the fact that his time was 53 seconds slower than final yr’s. Hoffman was solely 52 seconds behind in 2:43:16, with Tatsuya Itagaki operating down Ueda for third in 2:49:59.
Within the Fifth Stage brief course race, 15 km with 1480 m elevation achieve, Takako Takamura received the ladies’s race in 1:41:44 with Sho Matsumoto successful the lads’s race in 1:26:53. Previous girls’s summit course winner Yuri Kanbara was tenth within the Fifth Stage race in 1:58:06.
77th Fuji Mountain Race
26 July, 2024
Girls’s Summit Course
1. Yuri Yoshizumi – 3:13:08
2. Mina Ogawa – 3:21:44
3. Rieko Koshi – 3:25:02
4. Honoka Akiyama – 3:29:13
5. Chihiro Aibara – 3:32:33
6. Airi Sawada – 3:44:02
7. Mari Fujimoto – 3:52:01
8. Mami Saito – 3:54:43
9. Mai Funakoda – 3:55:23
10. Adeline Smirnova – 3:56:15
Males’s Summit Course
1. Ryunosuke Omi – 2:42:24
2. Christian Hoffman – 2:43:16
3. Tatsuya Itagaki – 2:49:59
4. Kei Ikushima – 2:50:39
5. Taiga Yamaguchi – 2:51:02
6. Ruy Ueda – 2:51:32
7. Naoki Satani – 2:57:31
8. Toshiaki Murata – 2:57:40
9. Tsubasa Fuji – 2:59:37
10. Kensuke Yoshimura – 3:00:55
Girls’s Fifth Stage Course
1. Takako Takamura – 1:41:44
2. Yoshimi Tanaka – 1:44:01
3. Ryoko Tanabe – 1:46:47
4. Hiyori Hirata – 1:48:50
5. Yui Kamiya – 1:50:49
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10. Yuri Kanbara – 1:58:06
Males’s Fifth Stage Course
1. Sho Matsumoto – 1:26:53
2. Shosei Habu – 1:28:01
3. Takamaru Kawasaki – 1:28:24
4. Hirotoshi Saito – 1:28:54
5. Hiroya Funamizu – 1:29:09
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translated and edited by Brett Larner
