Arakawa and Tomizawa Win Ontake 100-Miler, Onodera and Sakai Take Short Course Titles
The OSJ Ontake 100 happened this past weekend, one of Japan’s most popular trail ultras. In the 100 km short course race, actually around 109 km, Shingo Nosaka had a 4-minute lead over Yuta Onodera through the first checkpoint at 54 km, splitting 4:26:20 to Onodera’s 4:30:39. Running in 3rd and 4th at that point, Ryo Murata and Yuichi Miura were another 4 minutes back, but over the tough
16-Year-Old Rin Kubo Becomes First Japanese Woman to Break 2:00 for 800 m
At the July 15 Long Distance Time Trials meet in Nara, Higashi Osaka Keiai H.S. 2nd-year Rin Kubo, 16, added the 800 m national record to her national title two weeks ago and 4×800 m NR on Friday, becoming the first Japanese woman to break 2 minutes with a new NR of 1:59.93.The previous NR of 2:00.45 was set on June 5, 2005 by Miho Sugimori. Kubo cut 0.52 seconds off that time, set almost