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Kenyans Sweep Kumamoto Kosa Street Race

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throughout all three of its foremost distances.

 staff bought issues began within the girls’s 5 km, blasting a 14:48 that left Japanese NR holder

 nearly 40 seconds behind. Tanaka, whose 15:25 was technically a NR, was solely 10 seconds up on

, who continued a great season with a 15:35 for third only one second off Tanaka’s earlier NR iteration.

Kosa’s 10 km race has traditionally been for highschool boys, however this 12 months’s race had a superb subject of company league runners. Triple Hakone Ekiden CR breaker Vincent Yegon, now with the Honda company staff, gained in 28:05 by 1 second over Festus Kiprono. Mangata Kibet was third in 28:13, with Kenyans taking the highest 6 spots. Prime excessive schooler Mahiro Kubo from native Omuta H.S. ran a strong 29:58, ok for the win a number of years however solely 14th in opposition to his older competitors.

Kosa is the positioning of the quickest 10-miler ever run, and regardless that it wasn’t particularly quick this 12 months it had one other shut race in its premier distance. Anthony Maina from the Koichi Morishita-coached Toyota Kyushu staff outkicked Senshu College‘s Duncan Maina by 1 second for the win in 46:07, with Cleophas Kandie from Mitsubishi Juko making it a Kenyan high 3. Collegiate runner Riku Kodama was the top-placing Japanese man at 4th in 46:21.

forty ninth Kumamoto Kosa Street Race

1 Dec. 2024

Males’s 10 Miles

1. Anthony Maina (Kenya/Toyota Kyushu) – 46:07

2. Duncan Maina (Kenya/Senshu Univ.) – 46:08

3. Cleophas Kandie (Kenya/Mitsubishi Juko) – 46:12

4. Riku Kodama (Juntendo Univ.) – 46:21

5. Naoki Koyama (Honda) – 46:25

6. Kosei Machida (Chuo Hatsujo) – 46:27

7. Benuel Mogeni Magoma (Kenya/Yasukawa Denki) – 46:30

8. Yuta Shitara (Nishitetsu) – 46:34

9. Atsumi Ashiwa (Honda) – 46:35

10. Keito Makise (Toyota Kyushu) – 46:37

11. Ichitaka Yamashita (Mitsubishi Juko) – 46:40

12. Tatsuya Furukawa (Juntando) – 46:48

13. Naoto Hashimoto (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 46:49

14. Kento Nishi (Osaka Gasoline) – 46:51

15. Yoshiki Oshiro (Toyota Kyushu) – 46:51

16. Hidekazu Hijikata (Asahi Kasei) – 46:53

17. Kyosuke Hanao (Toyota Kyushu) – 46:54

18. Wataru Tochigi (Hiramatsu Byoin) – 46:57

19. Kazuki Moriya (Mitsubishi Juko) – 46:57

20. Keita Sakamoto (Aichi Seiko) – 46:58

21. Takanori Ogata (Toyota Kyushu) – 46:59

22. Shun Sadakata (Mazda) – 47:03

23. Shota Nishimura (Aichi Seiko) – 47:04

24. Ryoto Yoshioka (Mitsubishi Juko) – 47:07

25. Toshiki Sadakata (Mitsubishi Juko) – 47:07

Males’s 10 km

1. Vincent Yegon (Kenya/Honda) – 28:05

2. Festus Kiprono (Kenya) – 28:06

3. Mangata Kibet (Kenya/Mazda) – 28:13

4. Jonathan Ndiku (Kenya/YKK) – 28:25

5. Richard Kimayat (Kenya) – 28:34

6. Joseph Mutwanthei (Kenya) – 28:42

7. Nagiya Mori (Honda) – 28:51

8. Ryoma Aoki (Honda) – 28:53

9. Ken Nakayama (Honda) – 28:59

10. Victor Kipkirui Mutai (Kenya/Honda) – 29:04

Girls’s 5 km

1. Agnes Ngetich (Kenya/Canon) – 14:48

2. Nozomi Tanaka (New Stability) – 15:25 – NR

3. Nanami Watanabe (Panasonic) – 15:35

4. Diana Cherotich (Higo Ginko) – 15:44

5. Martha Mokaya (Kenya/Canon) – 15:52

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