Mutuku’s YGU teammate Brian Kipyegon gained the 5000 m A-heat in 13:30.88, James Karuri (Aomori Yamada H.S.) subsequent in 13:33.67 and Kaisei Okada (Chuo Univ.) third in 13:48.44. Soya Katayama (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) had the quickest 1500 m with a 3:46.19 to win the A-heat.
Within the ladies’s races at Nittai, Tabitha Njeri Kamau (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) was the one one to clear 16 minutes within the 5000 m A-heat, operating 15:27.12 for the win. Lucy Nduta (Aomori Yamada H.S.) was likewise the one one beneath 9 minutes within the 3000 m A-heat at 8:57.59, Runa Shoji (Kantaiheiyo Univ.) taking the 1500 m A-heat in 4:19.30 by 0.12 over Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku). Yamamoto was additionally 2nd behind Nduta within the 3000 m, operating 9:08.38.
Simply-graduated 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura (Subaru) and perpetual rival Philemon Kiplagat (Aisan Kogyo) each went beneath Kiplagat’s meet file from 2021, Miura profitable in 8:22.07 and Kiplagat 2nd in 8:23.35. On the best way up this season, Yutaro Niinae (Aisan Kogyo) was third in 8:28.54, his first time beneath 8:30. Three males broke the MR within the 1500 m, all beneath 3:40, led by Abraham Guem (Ami AC) in 3:39.17. Ryoji Tatezawa (DeNA) was 2nd in 3:39.55 and Masato Saiki (Fujisan no Meisui) third in 3:39.88.
Agnes Mwikali (Kyocera) was lower than a second off the MR within the ladies’s 5000 m, profitable by over 20 seconds in 15:04.71. Wakana Kabasawa (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) was 2nd in 15:25.30, with Eire’s Jodie McCann 4th in a PB 15:30.20. Tomoka Kimura (Sekisui Kagaku) shaved 0.19 off the ladies’s 1500 m MR courting manner again to 1994, profitable 4:10.75 over Rose Wangui (Sera H.S.), 2nd in 4:12.85. Abroad, NR holder Nozomi Tanaka (New Steadiness) was barely quicker on the Penn Relays, operating 4:08.32 for third.
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