Recent off the equal of a 1:00:40 half marathon on Day One of many Hakone Ekiden, 21-year-old Kiyoto Hirabayashi of Koku Gakuin College ran a debut and collegiate report 2:06:18 to win the Osaka Marathon. Submit-race his coach Yasuhiro Maeda in contrast Hirabayashi to former NR holder Atsushi Fujita, Maeda’s teammate of their days at Komazawa College. Ethiopian Waganesh Nekasha received the ladies’s race in 2:24:20.
Tokyo Marathon sponsor ASICS issued an apology after promoting an official t-shirt with a misspelled English phrase on it despite the fact that the misspelling truly growing the shirt’s attraction.
Ethiopian Sutume Asefe Kebede and Kenyan Benson Kipruto ran the quickest occasions ever produced on Japanese soil, Sutume dropping Rosemary Wanjiru at 40 km to win in 2:15:55 and Kipruto surviving a world report tempo begin ordered up by Eliud Kipchoge and successful in 2:02:16. Three Japanese males broke 2:07 led by Yusuke Nishiyama in 2:06:31 regardless of falling mid-race, whereas Mongolian Khishigsaikhan Galbadrakh ran a nationwide report 2:26:32 to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Preview 1. Preview 2.
Yuka Suzuki, Mao Ichiyama, Honami Maeda, Naoki Koyama, Akira Akasaki and girls’s alternate Ai Hosoda took half in a JAAF press convention to speak about their hopes for the Paris Olympics. Akasaki, who finally ran a PB 2:07:32 to take sixth in Paris, confidently mentioned, “I am sturdy on hills.” third males’s group member Suguru Osako declined to take part within the press convention.
Inexplicably sturdy on the Second and Third Levels, Aoyama Gakuin College put an finish to Komazawa College‘s hopes of changing into the primary group ever to win all three main college ekidens two years in a row, taking the lead on the Third Stage when Aoi Ota ran the equal of a 58:57 half marathon and by no means underneath menace once more. AGU finally broke the Day One CR and general CR, ending the whole course over 6.5 minutes forward of Komazawa. Performances have been at an unimaginable degree throughout the board, with 9 of Hakone’s 10 phases seeing occasions inside their all-time prime 10 and the uphill Fifth Stage a brand new CR by Josai College‘s Yuito Yamamoto.
After successful the 800 m at June’s Nationwide Monitor and Discipline Championships, Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S. athlete Rin Kubo made historical past as the primary Japanese girl to interrupt 2 minutes, working a nationwide report 1:59.93 at a JAAF-sanctioned time trial meet in Nara. Though the JAAF formally acknowledged Kubo’s time as a brand new NR, World Athletics didn’t settle for Kubo’s mark because the Nara meet had not paid the payment to register itself to WA’s occasion calendar, highlighting a rising downside within the sport in 2024.
In its first version with a brand new course setup designed to get extra TV time for Japan’s marathoners and fewer for non-Japanese runners, Toyota took the lead on the Second Stage because of the equal of a 59:25 half marathon by Tomoki Ota and held it the remainder of the way in which on the New Yr Ekiden company males’s nationwide championship. 2022-2023 winner Honda was 2nd simply forward of 2017-202 champ Asahi Kasei.
After working the equal of a 59:22 half marathon on the Hakone Ekiden, Komazawa College’s Keita Sato went to Boulder, CO for nearly two months to coach with the OAC professional group. Whereas there he ran an indoor 5000 m nationwide report of 13:09.45 in Boston and indoor 3000 m and 2-mile NR on the Millrose Video games in New York. Close to the top of his time in Boulder Sato talked to journalist Tatsuo Terada about coaching within the U.S. and his future objectives.
Ending the 12 months with a bang, 2020 Fukuoka Worldwide Marathon winner Yuya Yoshida went 2 seconds underneath the outdated pre-super shoe period course report set by Tsegaye Kebede to win Fukuoka once more in 2:05:16. En route he break up 1:02:58/1:02:18, elevating hopes that he can higher the two:04:56 marathon nationwide report in a sooner race. Additional again within the discipline, Hong Kong’s Vincent Lam set a brand new NR of two:15:31. Preview.
A former JAAF director and two-time Olympian who coached Juntendo College to 9 Hakone Ekiden wins, Keisuke Sawaki stepped down from his place on the college after 4 athletes have been despatched to the hospital on account of a exercise he compelled them to do in sizzling situations. Within the wake of the incident, as others started to return ahead with allegations of Sawaki’s historical past of verbal, psychological and bodily abuse in opposition to athletes and different school, he resigned his place with the group, saying, “That is the way in which we have all the time accomplished it.”
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