For the primary 5 legs it was largely between two-time defending champ Komazawa College and the highest four-ranked Ivy League Choose Crew, Aoyama Gakuin College, Koku Gakuin College and Soka College. All of them besides the Ivy League alternate phases up entrance with the Ivies within the combine in 2nd because of glorious runs from its two lead-off runners Kieran Tuntivate and Will Battershill. AGU’s Masaya Tsurukawa took the 8.0 km First Stage, Soka’s Hibiki Yoshida put them into 1st on the 5.8 km Second Stage, AGU’s Asahi Kuroda retook the lead on the 8.5 km Third Stage, Izumo native Aoi Ito put Komazawa out entrance on the 6.2 km Fourth Stage, and KGU’s Ryuto Uehara went to the entrance on the 6.4 km Fifth Stage.
That arrange an unimaginable matchup on the ten.2 km anchor stage between KGU’s Kiyoto Hirabayashi, winner of February’s Osaka Marathon in 2:06:18 and Third on the Hakone Ekiden’s Second Stage in January, Komazawa’s Kotaro Shinohara, the fastest-ever Japanese-born collegiate runner for 5000 m and half marathon and winner of Hakone’s First Stage, and AGU’s Aoi Ota, winner of Hakone’s Third Stage with the equal of a sub-59-minute half marathon.
#4-ranked Soka was 4th in 2:11:47, and in a shock the Ivy League held on for its first-ever podium end with an all-Ivy lineup and best-ever outright at fifth in 2:12:18 thanks partly to good runs on the 4th and anchor legs by Acer Iverson and Robert Miranda. #8-ranked Waseda had a superb one regardless of disappointing runs from its lead pair Tomonori Yamaguchi and Taishi Ito, taking sixth in 2:12:23 when its final two runners Masaki Nagaya and Shinsaku Kudo excelled. Hakone Third-placer Josai College fell wanting its #5 rating at seventh in 2:13:35, with Teikyo College turning within the breakthrough efficiency of the day at eighth in 2:13:35 after coming in ranked eleventh.
#10-ranked Hosei College was simply 6 seconds off the rostrum in ninth in 2:13:41, with #7-ranked Daito Bunka College struggling at tenth in 2:13:57. Lacking star 4th-year Kosuke Ishida, #9-ranked Toyo College additionally struggled, ending final amongst Kanto Area groups at eleventh in 2:15:45. Exhibiting the impossibility of bridging the hole to the eleven Kanto applications, even on Izumo’s shorter distances, prime non-Kanto staff Kyoto Sangyo College equalled its pre-race rating of twelfth in 2:17:07 even with Toyo’s weak efficiency.
Total it was probably the greatest ekiden races lately, no stage information, no course information, simply shut racing and fixed turnover between all of the favorites, the best way it could be in a great world. Komazawa was lacking star third-year Keita Sato, CR holder on the Third leg who was again within the dorm sick in mattress. Might he have single-handedly made up the 40-second distinction between KGU and Komazawa this time? Nicely, provided that his CR for the 5.8 km Second Stage is 15:27 and that Komazawa’s 2nd runner this time, Yudai Kiyama, ran 16:24, it is positively potential.
thirty sixth Izumo Ekiden
Izumo, Shimane, 14 Oct. 2024
21 groups, 6 phases, 45.1 km
High Particular person Stage Outcomes
First Stage – 8.0 km
1. Masaya Tsurukawa (4th yr., Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 23:40
2. Kieran Tuntivate (Ivy League) – 23:48
3. Rui Aoki (Third yr., Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 23:48
Second Stage – 5.8 km
1. Hibiki Yoshida (4th yr., Soka Univ.) – 15:46
2. Will Battershill (Ivy League) – 16:18
3. Takuma Ohama (1st yr., Daito Bunka Univ.) – 16:20
Third Stage – 8.5 km
1. Victor Kimutai (Third yr., Josai Univ.) – 23:42
2. Takuma Yamakawa (Third yr., Komazawa Univ.) – 23:52
3. Asahi Kuroda (Third yr., Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 23:55
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8. Tyler Berg (Ivy League) – 24:59
Fourth Stage – 6.2 km
1. Hiromichi Nonaka (2nd yr., Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 17:42
2. Acer Iverson (Ivy League) – 17:46
3. Aoi Ito (Third yr., Komazawa Univ.) – 17:49
Fifth Stage – 6.4 km
1. Ryuto Uehara (Third yr., Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 18:12
2. Kosuke Shimako (2nd yr., Komazawa Univ.) – 18:25
3. Masaki Nagaya (2nd yr., Waseda Univ.) – 18:31
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9. Matthew Pereira (Ivy League) – 19:07
Sixth Stage – 10.2 km
1. Kiyoto Hirabayashi (4th yr., Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 29:03
2. Shinsaku Kudo (2nd yr., Waseda Univ.) – 29:35
3. Kotaro Shinohara (4th yr., Komazawa Univ.) – 29:39
3. Aoi Ota (4th yr., Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 29:39
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7. Robert Miranda (Ivy League) 30:20
Crew Outcomes
1. Koku Gakuin College – 2:09:24
2. Komazawa College – 2:10:04
3. Aoyama Gakuin College – 2:10:24
4. Soka College – 2:11:47
5. Ivy League Choose Crew – 2:12:18
6. Waseda College – 2:12:23
7. Josai College – 2:12:34
8. Teikyo College – 2:13:35
9. Hosei College – 2:13:41
10. Daito Bunka College – 2:13:57
11. Toyo College – 2:15:45
12. Kyoto Sangyo College – 2:17:07
13. Hokushinetsu Area Choose Crew – 2:18:09
14. Hokkaido Area Choose Crew – 2:18:39
15. Nagoya College – 2:18:53
16. Kansai College – 2:19:33
17. Okayama College – 2:21:01
18. Kanoya Taiiku College – 2:21:26
19. Hiroshima College – 2:23:33
20. Hiroshima Keizai College – 2:25:20
21. Tohoku Area Choose Crew – 2:25:21
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