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Edion Women Win First National Title at Queens Ekiden

5th last year, Edion led almost start to finish to win its first-ever national title at the Queens Ekiden corporate women’s national championship race Sunday in Sendai. Its lead-off runner Kana Mizumoto opened up a 16-second lead that it held until the 4th leg, when the talented Caroline Kariba from 2024 winner Japan Post ran down Edion’s Saya Nakajima. It’s hard to fault Nakajima, who was still

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Mebuki Suzuki 27:05.92 NR at Hachioji Long Distance, 53 Go Sub-28

Japan got one step closer to its first sub-27 minute 10000 m Saturday at the Hachioji Long Distance meet.Conditions were as perfect as they could have been, and as the heats went by it was clear that something big was coming. The E and D-heats both had winning times under 28:10. In the C-heat Hiromichi Nonaka held off alum and former collegiate marathon record holder Kiyoto Hirabayashi to set a

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Hachioji Long Distance Streaming and Entry Lists

The Hachioji Long Distance time trial meet always produces fast 10000 m, with last year’s A-heat winner Gulveer Singh running a 27:14.88 that was an Indian national record at that point. Set to kick off at 18:40, the A-heat this year is targeting 27:10, with Japanese men Mebuki Suzuki, Yamato Yoshii, Kotaro Shinohara, Ren Tazawa, Shunsuke Yoshii, Tomoya Ogiko and Ryuto Igawa hoping to hit the