Japan Submit Holds Off Sekisui Kagaku to Win Queens Ekiden Nationwide Title

 was again on high on the Queens Ekiden company girls’s nationwide championships Sunday in Sendai, holding off final yr’s winner

 over the second half of a race that got here as shut as 1 second to take 1st with a closing margin of victory of 27 seconds.

Sekisui Kagaku was out quick with a win on the 7.0 km opening leg by Erika Tanoura and a brand new CR for the 12:56 second leg by Yuma Yamamoto, 17 seconds higher than her personal CR from final yr. Final yr’s 4th-placer Shiseido briefly led on the ten.6 km third leg with a wonderful 33:17 stage win from Rino Goshima, however behind her Japan Submit’s Ririka Hironaka returned from her newest harm issues to cross Sekisui Kagaku’s Sayaka Sato and hand off 6 seconds forward.

New recruit Caroline Kariba ran Shiseido down on the three.6 km fourth leg and put Japan Submit 22 seconds forward of Sekisui Kagaku, however a duel of marathoners between JP’s Ayuko Suzuki and Sekisui’s Hitomi Niiya on the ten.0 km fifth leg lower the distinction right down to only one second on the closing alternate, Niiya at one level going forward however Suzuki coming again to retake 1st. All of it got here right down to Japan Submit anchor Kotona Ota, who turned in a stage-winning 21:02 for the 6.795 km anchor leg, outrunning Sekisui’s Chikako Mori by 26 seconds to place Japan Submit in 1st in 2:13:54 to Sekisui Kagaku’s 2:14:21.

18th final yr, Shimamura was a shock Third in 2:15:26 with particularly good runs from final two runners Anna Suzuki and Yuna Takahashi. Final yr’s Third-placer Panasonic was 4th in 2:15:40, with Edion, Iwatani Sangyo and Daiichi Seimei taking the subsequent three spots. Shiseido fell to eighth over the second half of the race, taking the ultimate podium spot by solely 9 seconds over Uniqlo, 2:17:00 to 2:17:09.

fifth and seventh final yr, Daihatsu and Tenmaya have been off the rostrum this time, Tenmaya tenth in 2:17:38 and Daihatsu eleventh in 2:18:05. The 2 debuting groups within the discipline, Tokyo Metro and Bears, have been twentieth in 2:21:19 and twenty third in 2:23:40. Nonetheless hurting from the switch of star runner Mao Uesugi to Tokyo Metro, Begins was final in 2:23:54, 14 seconds behind Bears.

Queens Ekiden

forty fourth Company Girls’s Nationwide Championships

Sendai, Miyagi, 24 Nov. 2024

24 groups, 6 levels, 42.195 km

Crew Outcomes

1. Japan Submit – 2:13:54

2. Sekisui Kagaku – 2:14:21

3. Shimamura – 2:15:26

4. Panasonic – 2:15:40

5. Edion – 2:15:50

6. Iwatani Sangyo – 2:16:55

7. Daiichi Seimei – 2:16:57

8. Shiseido – 2:17:00

—– high 8 auto-qualify for 2025

9. Uniqlo 2:17:09

10. Tenmaya – 2:17:38

11. Daihatsu – 2:18:05

12. Toyota Jidoshokki – 2:18:15

13. Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo – 2:19:11

14. Sysmex – 2:19:31

15. Higo Ginko – 2:19:38

16. Otsuka Seiyaku – 2:19:42

17. Route Inn Inns – 2:20:27

18. Hitachi – 2:20:32

19. Kyocera – 2:20:37

20. Tokyo Metro – 2:21:19 – debut

21. Denso – 2:22:31

22. Nitori – 2:23:25

23. Bears – 2:23:40 – debut

24. Begins – 2:23:54

Particular person Stage Outcomes

First Stage (7.0 km)

1. Erika Tanoura (Sekisui Kagaku) – 21:46

2. Shiori Yoshizono (Tenmaya) – 21:46

3. Miyaka Sugata (Japan Submit) – 21:51

Second Stage (4.2 km)

1. Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) – 12:56 – CR

2. Kae Gyu (Japan Submit) – 13:08 (CR)

3. Ayano Ide (Shiseido) – 13:09 (CR)

Third Stage (10.6 km)

1. Rino Goshima (Shiseido) – 33:17

2. Ririka Hironaka (Japan Submit) – 33:33

3. Nanami Watanabe (Panasonic) – 33:36

Fourth Stage (3.6 km)

1. Hellen Ekarare (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 10:59

2. Agnes Mwikali (Kyocera) – 11:09

3. Caroline Kariba (Japan Submit) – 11:13

Fifth Stage (10.0 km)

1. Ai Hosoda (Edion) – 32:29

2. Anna Suzuki (Shimamura) – 32:42

3. Hitomi Niiya (Sekisui Kagaku) – 32:46

Sixth Stage (6.795 km)

1. Kotona Ota (Japan Submit) – 21:02

2. Kazuna Kanetomo (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) – 21:21

3. Yuna Takahashi (Shimamura) – 21:26

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