Final 12 months Sekisui Kagaku received by nearly a minute and a half, and with Paris Olympian Yuma Yamamoto, 2023 World Championships marathoner Sayaka Sato on its entry checklist and collegiate 1500 m file holder Mizuki Michishita having come on board this season it seems like a contender for an additional win. However final 12 months’s runner-up Japan Submit bought an enormous increase this season with the addition of its first non-Japanese member, two-time double 1500 m and 3000 m highschool champion Caroline Kariba. The Queens Ekiden limits non-Japanese athletes to a 3.8 km leg, so it would be powerful for Kariba to bridge a 1:25 hole by herself with that little floor to work with. However what she will do is get Japan Submit’s final two runners into nearer vary of Sekisui Kagaku or whoever else is main and provides them the momentum to have a greater likelihood of catching them.
2023 4th-placer Shiseido has three Paris Olympians, Mao Ichiyama, Rino Goshima and Yuka Takashima, in its lineup, however in current racing loads of its folks have not been in peak type, making it look shakier than final 12 months. sixth final 12 months, Daiichi Seimei appears to be on an upward trajectory with a terrific run within the marathon in Paris from Yuka Suzuki and Haruka Kokai having been fairly constant all 12 months. It would not be a shock to see Daiichi Seimei forward of Shiseido and in rivalry for high 3.
Panasonic, Daihatsu, Tenmaya and Iwatani Sangyo spherical out final 12 months’s podium finishers. eleventh final 12 months, Uniqlo received October’s Princess Ekiden qualifying race thanks largely to the addition of company half marathon champ Dolphine Omare, like Japan Posts’s Kariba the primary non-Japanese athlete to run for her crew. Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo was solely 7 seconds behind Uniqlo on the Princess Ekiden, and each groups have a great likelihood of breaking via onto the nationwide podium this time.
Two groups shall be making their Queens Ekiden debuts. Tokyo Metro scored huge when it recruited 2:22:29 marathoner Mao Uesugi away from her longtime residence at Begins, with Bears placing in a good crew effort on the Princess Ekiden to make the lower.
The entire area with bib numbers:
1. Sekisui Kagaku
2. Japan Submit
3. Panasonic
4. Shiseido
5. Daihatsu
6. Daiichi Seimei
7. Tenmaya
8. Iwatani Sangyo
9. Uniqlo
10. Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo
11. Edion
12. Sysmex
13. Toyota Jidoshokki
14. Otsuka Seiyaku
15. Shimamura
16. Hitachi
17. Higo Gingo
18. Kyocera
19. Tokyo Metro
20. Nitori
21. Route Inn Inns
22. Bears
23. Begins
24. Denso
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