Sixteenth at Queens final 12 months, Kyudenko has scratched from Sunday’s race attributable to athlete accidents stopping them from having sufficient folks able to run. twenty second at Queens, Yamada Holdings can also be out as a result of it could not area 6 runners, one cause being the switch of certainly one of its star runners, Sakiho Tsutsui, to Common Leisure. Their absence opens to door for 2 of the groups on the cusp to make it this time.
Up high on the entry checklist it is fairly secure to imagine that at the very least the highest 10 groups will make it. #1-ranked Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo‘s entry checklist consists of 5000 m Paris Olympian Wakana Kabasawa, and former collegiate 10000 m report holder Narumi Kobayashi can also be on their checklist after a very long time away with damage. #3-ranked Uniqlo options 1500 m Paris Olympic workforce member Yume Goto.
Tsutsui is not on Common’s roster, however down close to the underside of the highest 10 Shimamura‘s checklist does embrace current switch Yuka Ando. The following workforce under them, Hitachi, does not have a Kenyan in its lineup this time round, leaving it weak to a number of the groups nearer to the cutoff line like Nitori and Toyota Jidoshokki that do.
Talking of vulnerability, bib #14 Wacoal is harm by Ando’s switch to Shimamura, and with solely 7 runners on its checklist it is somewhat vulnerable to potential race day illness or damage points. Beneath them, because the fifteenth and Sixteenth-ranked Toyota Jidoshokki and Daiso stand to profit from Kyudenko and Yamada’s DNS standing.
Previous that time, the checklist consists of previously sturdy groups like Sysmex, Noritz, Toto and Denso, any of which might like to make it again into the fold, financial institution groups 18 Ginko, Kagoshima Ginko and Higo Ginko, and relative newcomers like Bears, Tokyo Metro, and first-timers Shin Nihon Jusetsu Group. SNJG has precisely six runners on its entry checklist and is much more weak to a race morning setback than Wacoal.
Princess Ekiden Begin Record
Fukuoka, 20 Oct. 2024
30 groups, 6 phases, 42.195 km
high 16 qualify for Queens Ekiden
1. Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo
2. Edion
3. Uniqlo
4. Route Inn Resorts
5. Begins
6. Otsuka Seiyaku
7. Common Leisure
9. Kyocera
10. Shimamura
11. Hitachi
12. Senko
13. Nitori
14. Wacoal
15. Canon
16. Toyota Jidoshokki
17. Daiso
18. Sysmex
19. Ehime Ginko
20. Bears
21. 18 Ginko
22. Kagoshima Ginko
23. SID Group
24. Tokyo Metro
25. Noritz
26. Memolead
27. Toto
28. Aichi Denki
29. Higo Ginko
30. Denso
31. Shin Nihon Jusetsu Group
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