, the company leagues held their qualifying race for November’s Queens Ekiden nationwide championship. 30 groups raced the 6-stage, 42.195 km
to attempt for the 16 spots left alongside the 8 auto-qualifiers from final yr’s Queens Ekiden.
After a sluggish begin Uniqlo moved as much as take the win because of a stage win from Paris Olympian Yume Goto on the three.6 km Second Stage, a very good run from 4th runner Yumi Yoshikawa to maneuver into third, and an enormous run from new recruit Dolphine Omare to run down Edion and Otsuka Seiyaku for 1st. 33 seconds up on Edion at the beginning of the 6.695 km anchor stage, Uniqlo had a scare from Olympian Wakana Kabasawa who began for Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo 50 seconds again in fifth. Kabasawa turned in a stage-winning run and bought to inside 5 seconds of Uniqlo anchor Ayaka Kato with 1 km to go, however Kato heard her coming and rallied to hold on for the win in 2:19:16. Mitsui Sumitomo was subsequent in 2:19:23, with Edion third in 2:19:52.
Sysmex was a strong 4th in 2:19:54 after not making the reduce final yr, with 2023 Queens Ekiden last-placer Toyota Jidoshokki fifth in 2:20:16. Shimamura was seventh with Yuka Ando working on the Third Stage after transferring from Wacoal. Ninth-placer Higo Ginko joined Sysmex in qualifying after lacking out final yr, whereas eleventh and 14th-place groups Tokyo Metro and Bears each certified for the primary time. In Tokyo Metro’s case that was thanks in large half to marathoner Mao Uesugi transferring in from her longtime dwelling on the Begins workforce. Begins nonetheless made it with out her, taking fifteenth simply forward of ultimate qualifier Denso, one other workforce scraping again into the nationwide championship after just a few rocky years.
Final yr’s prime non-qualifier Daiso was an unfortunate seventeenth this time round, 36 seconds again from Denso despite nice runs throughout the final three levels. Falling out of qualification this yr have been Common Leisure, Senko, Canon and Wacoal, which simply could not make up for Ando’s loss. Making its debut, the Shin Nihon Jusetsu Group workforce was final in 2:39:09.
Princess Ekiden
Fukuoka, 20 Oct. 2024
30 groups, 6 levels, 42.195 km
prime 16 groups qualify for Queens Ekiden nationwide championship
High Particular person Stage Performances
First Stage (7.0 km)
1. Nanaka Izawa (Begins) 22:33
2. Shiori Nagumo (Higo Ginko) 22:38
3. Kana Mizumoto (Edion) 22:40
4. Anna Matsuda (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) 22:46
5. Asa Kobayashi (North) 22:46
6. Yuna Takahashi (Shimamura) 22:48
7. Rio Matsutani (Denso) 22:48
8. Shuri Ogasawara (Tokyo Metro) 22:56
9. Ayu Henmi (Toyota Jidoshokki) 22:59
10. Yuri Tasaki (Sysmex) 23:00
11. Momoka Kawaguchi (Uniqlo) 23:05
Second Stage (3.6 km)
1. Yume Goto (Uniqlo) 11:13
2. Kanako Nawa (Edion) 11:27
2. Soyoka Segawa (Sysmex) 11:27
4. Misaki Shitamori (Toyota Jidoshokki) 11:28
5. Momoa Yamada (Shimamura) 11:29
6. Narumi Okumoto (Hitachi) 11:31
7. Momoyo Hirota (Bears) 11:32
8. Sumika Tsutsumi (Higo Ginko) 11:33
9. Chiho Sakamoto (Route Inn Inns) 11:34
10. Reika Kozono (Kyocera) 11:36
Third Stage (10.7 km)
1. Mikuni Yada (Edion) 34:15
2. Kana Kobayashi (Otsuka Seiyaku) 34:18
3. Yumi Yoshikawa (Uniqlo) 35:00
4. Rio Wakai (Wacoal) 35:04
5. Aiwa Sakaguchi (Bears) 35:05
6. Yuki Toyoda (Higo Ginko) 35:12
7. Kokoro Sakai (Sysmex) 35:13
8. Mao Uesugi (Tokyo Metro) 35:21
9. Yuka Ando (Shimamura) 35:22
10. Eriko Otsuka (Higo Ginko) 35:23
Fourth Stage (3.8 km)
1. Agnes Mwikali (KEN/Kyocera) 11:19 CR tie
2. Hellen Ekalale (KEN/Toyota Jidoshokki) 11:26
3. Teresiah Muthoni (KEN/Daiso) 11:40
4. Pauline Kamulu (KEN/Route Inn Inns) 11:48
5. Dolphine Omare (KEN/Uniqlo) 11:52
6. Tabitha Njeri Kamau (KEN/Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) 11:55
7. Esther Wangui (KEN/Begins) 12:02
8. Martha Mokaya (KEN/Canon) 12:06
9. Diana Cherotich (KEN/Higo Ginko) 12:07
10. Mirriam Cherop (KEN/Shin Nihon Jusetsu Group) 12:23
11. Kadogo Chebotibin (KEN/SID Group) 12:32
12. Esther Muthoni (KEN/Nitori) 12:35
Fifth Stage (10.4 km)
1. Honoka Tanaike (Otsuka Seiyaku) 35:21
2. Mitsu Ozaki (Sysmex) 35:31
3. Chiharu Suzuki (Hitachi) 35:36
4. Moe Shimizu (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) 35:49
5. Miki Hirai (Uniqlo) 35:54
6. Anna Suzuki (Shimamura) 36:06
7. Mizuki Kakiuchi (Daiso) 36:11
8. Saya Nakajima (Edion) 36:14
8. Honoka Sugiura (Nitori) 36:14
10. Ayumi Morita (Tokyo Metro) 36:18
Sixth Stage (6.695 km)
1. Wakana Kabasawa (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) 21:29
2. Akane Yabushita (Toyota Jidoshokki) 21:33
3. Momoko Hanano (Hitachi) 21:58
4. Hisami Ishii (Sysmex) 22:04
5. Minami Yamanouchi (Shimamura) 22:11
6. Ayaka Kato (Uniqlo) 22:12
7. Miho Hiraoka (Edion) 22:15
8. Kino Sumitani (Nitori) 22:20
9. Kotone Nishina (Route Inn Inns) 22:22
Staff Outcomes
1. Uniqlo – 2:19:16
2. Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo – 2:19:23
3. Edion – 2:19:52
4. Sysmex – 2:19:54
5. Toyota Jidoshokki – 2:20:16
6. Otsuka Seiyaku – 2:20:31
7. Shimamura – 2:20:37
8. Hitachi – 2:20:44
9. Higo Ginko – 2:21:08
10. Kyocera – 2:21:20
11. Tokyo Metro – 2:21:57
12. Nitori – 2:22:00
13. Route Inn Inns – 2:22:02
14. Bears – 2:22:09
15. Begins – 2:22:17
16. Denso – 2:22:29
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17. Daiso – 2:23:05
18. 18 Shinwa Ginko – 2:24:06
19. SID Group – 2:24:18
20. Common Leisure – 2:24:36
21. Noritz – 2:24:55
22. Memolead – 2:24:56
23. Senko – 2:24:58
24. Kagoshima Ginko – 2:25:00
25. Ehime Ginko – 2:25:25
26. Canon – 2:26:19
27. Toto – 2:29:19
28. Wacoal – 2:29:44
29. Aichi Denki – 2:31:41
30. Shin Nihon Jusetsu Group – 2:39:09
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