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The largest home meet of the weekend was the four-day Kanto Area Monitor and Subject Championships, however there have been different good meets taking place throughout the nation. On the Kinami Memorial Meet in Osaka, Kazuto Iizawa (Sumitomo Denko) had a near-miss on the Japanese NR, working a meet report 3:35.77 for the win to come back in at all-time JPN #2. 2nd by way of 4th-placers Abraham Guem (South Sudan), Felix Muthiani (Kenya) and Dezhu Liu (China) had been all beneath the previous MR and beneath 3:38, and the highest 10 all went beneath 3:40. All instructed it was probably the greatest non-international championship males’s 1500 m ever on Japanese soil. The ladies’s 3000 mSC additionally noticed a brand new MR from Shuangshuang Xu (China) in 9:47.45, with 2nd by way of 4th-placers Miu Saito (Nittai Univ.), Georgia Winkcup (Australia) and Manami Nishiyama (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) all breaking 10 minutes.
At half one of many Chugoku Company Championships in Hiroshima, Rebecca Mwangi (Daiso) had a straightforward win within the ladies’s 5000 m in 15:26.53, 13 seconds up on Paris Olympic marathon workforce alternate Ai Hosoda (Edion). Kenyan Chugoku Denryoku teammates Cosmas Mwangi and Waweru Nganga went 1-2 within the males’s 10000 m in 28:10.82 and 28:11.11, Taiyo Iwasaki (JFE Metal) the highest Japanese finisher at third in 28:38.38.
On the Chubu Company Championships in Gifu, Yamato Yoshii (Toyota) ran a 3:39.75 MR to win the 1500 m, his first time beneath 3:40. Daiki Hattori (Toyota Boshoku) edged Simon Muthio Saidim (Chuo Hatsujo) by 0.80 to attain the highest spot within the males’s 5000 m in 13:36.01. Philemon Kiplagat (Aisan Kogyo) received the 10000 m by 3 seconds over Felix Korir (Toyota) in 28:19.08. Yutaro Niinae (Aisan Kogyo) continued a breakthrough season with a 3000 m SC win in 8:39.27.
Within the ladies’s races, Hellen Ekarare (Toyota Jidoshokki) took the 1500 m – 5000 m double, successful the 1500 m in 4:18.16 on Saturday and the 5000 m in 15:50.91 the subsequent day. Rio Matsutani (Denso) took 4 seconds of the MR within the U20 ladies’s 3000 m, soloing a 9:24.08 for the win. Marathoner Reia Iwade (Denso) took the 10000 m in 33:30.26.
Abroad, males’s 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura (Subaru) had a superb run on the Doha Diamond League meet, working 4 seconds off his PB with an 8:13.96 for fifth. NR holder Nozomi Tanaka (New Steadiness) was unimpressive within the ladies’s 5000 m, working solely 15:11.21 for eleventh. On the Monitor Fest meet in L.A., Hibiki Obara had a superb run within the males’s 3000 mSC with am 8:25.92 PB for fifth, beating Olympian Ryoma Aoki (Honda), who ran 8:35.16 for ninth.
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