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In our post-Hakone Ekiden evaluation of this 12 months’s record-breaking race we wrote that winner Aoyama Gakuin College head coach Susumu Hara excels at creating depth of high quality and might normally fill gaps attributable to commencement. It is a signal of how a lot depth he has that his B- and C-squad runners occupied podium locations at two quick half marathons only a week after Hakone.
The Takanezawa Genki-Up Half Marathon in Tochigi is the same old vacation spot for AGU benchwarmers and has seen some breakthrough performances from future A-squad stars. Native unbiased Ryuichi Yoshioka received the win in 1:03:00, however AGU runners took the subsequent 6 spots, all underneath 1:03:40, led by Riku Anjima and Daiki Sasaki in 1:03:04 and 1:03:06. They usually weren’t even the quickest AGU folks in motion.
On the rebranded Tokyo New Yr Half Marathon, beforehand the Hello-Tech Half, Kaito Nakamura and Kyosuke Hiramatsu went head-to-head with former 10000 m NR holder Kota Murayama from the GMO company crew. Murayama, who introduced that he’ll retire after working subsequent month’s Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon, received the win in a photograph end with Nakamura, each clocking 1:02:46. Hiramatsu was shut behind in 1:02:49 for third, with Toyo College‘s Koha Kuramoto 4th in 1:02:57 and unbiased Yudai Fukuda fifth in 1:02:58.

AGU is dropping 6 of the ten members of its Hakone-winning squad together with 3 of its perfect, however because the outcomes right here present there’s loads extra coming down the pipeline, together with Zen Kuroda, youthful brother of Second Stage CR-breaker Asahi Kuroda, sixth in Takezawa in 1:03:16. It nonetheless will not be simple for Komazawa College and the opposite top-end competitors to take AGU down come Jan. 2-3 subsequent 12 months.

Takanezawa Genki-Up Half Marathon

Takanezawa, Tochigi, 12 Jan. 2024

1. Ryuichi Yoshioka (Honda Tochigi) – 1:03:00

2. Riku Anjima (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:03:04

3. Daiki Sasaki (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:03:06

4. Aito Sato (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:03:09

5. Taisei Endo (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:03:13

6. Zen Kuroda (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:03:16

7. Kaito Iida (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:03:38

8. Shumon Rohomon (Tokai Univ.) – 1:04:02

9. Junpei Nakano (Tokai Univ.) – 1:04:12

10. Shunto Hamakawa (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:04:23

Tokyo New Yr Half Marathon

Kita-ku, Tokyo, 12 Jan. 2024

1. Kota Murayama (GMO) – 1:02:46

2. Kaito Nakamura (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:02:46

3. Kyosuke Hiramatsu (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:02:49

4. Koha Kuramoto (Toyo Univ.) – 1:02:57

5. Yudai Fukuda (Ishikawa T&F Assoc.) – 1:02:58

6. Chihiro Ono (GMO) – 1:03:09

7. Shuto Sugiura (Tokai Univ.) – 1:03:12

8. Shusei Ohashi (Kodaira T&F Assoc.) – 1:03:16

9. Kotaro Ito (Waseda Univ.) – 1:03:18

10. Hibiki Sawanaka (Hosei Univ.) – 1:03:19

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