Fukuoka Worldwide Marathon
Proper now solely 4 Japanese males have certified for subsequent yr’s Tokyo World Championships, and with current instances between 2:05:59 and a pair of:06:54 the primary home group up entrance, Kenya Sonota, Yusuke Nishiyama, Yuya Yoshida, Kazuya Nishiyama and Daisuke Doi, can be aiming so as to add to that record. It has been some time since there’s been this good a Japanese area in Fukuoka.
Hofu Yomiuri Marathon
Kumamoto Kosa 10-Miler
Kosa’s 10 km race has normally been for highschool boys solely, however this yr it is acquired a large group of Kenyan company leaguers who would usually be within the 10-miler, and a small group of top-tier Japanese runners together with Olympic steeple Masaru Aoki, 13:16.76 5000 m runner Nagiya Mori, and 1:00:38 half marathoner Ken Nakayama. It would not seem like they’ve actually carried out the mathematics that they will qualify for the 10000 m on the Tokyo World Championships on the highway too but, however it is a huge step towards attending to that consciousness.
The ladies’s 5 km has some fairly good individuals too, together with Japan-based Kenyans Agnes Ngetich, Diana Cherotich and Martha Mokaya, and Nozomi Tanaka and Nanami Watanabe on the prime of the Japanese entrant record.
Nittai College Time Trials
The final full-on version of the Nittai College Time Trials meet, partially rebranded because the Nittaidai Problem Video games for the top-end heats that depend in World Athletics rankings, additionally has a whole lot of good names on its entry lists, with Saturday devoted to 40 heats of males’s 5000 m, and all the things else on Sunday. The quickest males’s 5000 m warmth consists of the highest Japanese man within the Paris Olympics marathon, Akira Akasaki, however including some ooh-la-la is the presence of 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura, who says he hopes to get near the 13:08.40 NR for 5000 m.
10000 m NR holder Kazuya Shiojiri and marathon NR holder Kengo Suzuki are each within the 10000 m quick warmth, with plenty of different sub-28 males like Tatsuhiko Ito, Takashi Ichida, Shoya Kawase and Sonata Nagashima. Recent off a fantastic comeback run on the Queens Ekiden final weekend, Ririka Hironaka is within the girls’s 5000 m quick warmth towards a number of the greatest Japan-based Kenyans together with Hellen Ekarare, Caroline Kariba, Agnes Mwikali and Sarah Wanjiru. The ladies’s 3000 m quick warmth is just about a showdown between the perfect Kenyans at Japanese excessive faculties forward of December’s Nationwide Excessive College Ekiden, together with Lucy Nduta, Jecinta Nyokabi, Margaret Muthoni and Mirriam Njeri.
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