The senior males’s 10 km lived as much as the hype with a 4-way race between 3000 m SC NR holder Ryuji Miura, 10000 m NR holder Kazuya Shiojiri, sub-28 man Ryuto Igawa and Hakone Ekiden downhill specialist Aoi Ito. It got here right down to a dash end between Miura and Igawa, with Miura getting the win 28:24 to twenty-eight:25 and Shiojiri a couple of steps again in 28:29. Contemplating that the Nationwide Company Highway 10 km Championships two weeks in the past have been gained with a time over 29 minutes, occasions have been quick total with the highest 6 beneath 29 minutes.
The senior ladies’s 8 km was a pack race many of the manner, with one of many favorites Momoka Kawaguchi pulling away for the win in 26:25. Sixth-place Wakana Itsuki was solely 10 seconds behind 2nd-placer Sora Shinozakura, who clocked 26:31, exhibiting what an in depth race it was. Anna Suzuki took third in 26:34.
Takumi Shiobara from Miura’s alma mater Juntendo College took the senior males’s 2 km in 5:36, making it a pleasant double for Juntendo. Yuzu Nishide was the senior ladies’s 2 km winner in 6:36.
The U20 males’s 8 km was a 1-2 end for Fukushima’s Gakuho Ishikawa H.S., with Ryo Kurimura outkicked teammate and attainable favourite Yota Mashiko for the win 23:20 to 23:24. Haruki Niizuma was 3 seconds again in third.
2024 Nationwide Excessive College Ekiden champion Nagano Higashi H.S. dominated the U20 ladies’s 6 km, taking 1st, third and seventh. Airi Mashiba acquired the win in 19:34 and Nami Kawakami third in 19:46, with rival Yua Tsukamoto from Osaka Kunei Joshi Gakuin H.S. splitting them up with a 19:39 for 2nd.
Nationwide Cross Nation Championships
Fukuoka, 22 Feb. 2025
Senior Males’s 10 km
1. Ryuji Miura (Subaru) – 28:24
2. Ryuto Igawa (Asahi Kasei) – 28:25
3. Kazuya Shiojiri (Fujitsu) – 28:29
4. Aoi Ito (Komazawa Univ.) – 28:35
5. Daiki Ozawa (Fujitsu) – 28:50
6. Hiroto Yoshioka (Juntendo Univ.) – 28:53
7. Yuma Shimoo (NTN) – 29:02
8. Yutaro Niinae (Aisan Kogyo) – 29:06
Senior Girls’s 8 km
1. Momoka Kawaguchi (Uniqlo) – 26:25
2. Sora Shinozakura (Yokohama T&F Assoc.) – 26:31
3. Anna Suzuki (Shimamura) – 26:34
4. Mitsu Ozaki (Sysmex) – 26:38
5. Chihiro Tsushima (Begins) – 26:40
6. Wakana Itsuki (Kyudenko) – 26:41
7. Ranna Chuuma (Shimamura) – 26:43
8. Yuri Tasaki (Sysmex) – 26:47
Senior Males’s 2 km
1. Takumi Shiobara (Juntendo Univ.) – 5:36
2. Ryosuke Harada (Makes) – 5:38
3. Ryutaro Goto (Chuo Univ.) – 5:39
4. Kiyoto Ono (Juntendo Univ.) – 5:41
5. Takumi Nakagawa (Juntendo Univ.) – 5:43
6. Koki Terada (Chuo Univ.) – 5:47
7. Ryuto Aoki (Rikkyo Univ.) – 5:50
8. Naoto Katayama (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) – 5:52
Senior Girls’s 2 km
1. Yuzu Nishide (Daihatsu) – 6:36
2. Momoa Yamada (Shimamura) – 6:37
3. Chikako Mori (Sekisui Kagaku) – 6:39
4. Saya Miyakawa (Denso) – 6:46
5. Yui Kitamura (Fukuoka Univ.) – 6:56
6. Koharu Shinoda (Minoka H.S.) – 6:56
7. Niko Ryoke (Fukuoka Wakaba H.S.) – 7:01
8. Ayaka Koike (Denso) – 7:05
U20 Males’s 8 km
1. Ryo Kurimura (Gakuho Ishikawa H.S.) – 23:20
2. Yota Mashiko (Gakuho Ishikawa H.S.) – 23:24
3. Haruki Niizuma (Nishiwaki Kogyo H.S.) – 23:27
4. Yuma Matsuda (Omuta H.S.) – 23:30
5. Kenshin Noda (Omuta H.S.) – 23:34
6. Haruhi Niimi (Sera H.S.) – 23:34
7. Sota Muta (Chinzei Gakuin H.S.) – 23:39
8. Ibuki Sugiyama (Kyushu Gakuin H.S.) – 23:42
U20 Girls’s 6 km
1. Airi Mashiba (Nagano Higashi H.S.) – 19:34
2. Yua Tsukamoto (Osaka Kunei Joshi Gakuin H.S.) – 19:39
3. Nami Kawakami (Nagano Higashi H.S.) – 19:46
4. Kairi Ikeno (Suma Gakuen H.S.) – 19:49
5. Yua Sato (Ritsumeikan Uji H.S.) – 19:59
6. Mao Kimura (Ibaraki Christian Gakuen H.S.) – 20:01
7. Rena Imai (Nagano Higashi H.S.) – 20:04
8. Mona Utsunomiya (Sapporo Yamanote H.S.) – 20:05
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