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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