Alongside the National High School Girls Ekiden, the Nittai University Women’s Long Distance Time Trials meet and Sanyo Ladies Road Race 10 km and half marathon made it a busy weekend for women’s running in Japan.At Nittai, Momoka Kawaguchi (Uniqlo) was just off her PB in the 5000 m, winning the A-heat in 15:26.59 by almost 20 seconds over teammate Yume Goto. Nokoka Hosaka (SID Group) took the
Like girls’ race winner Nagano Higashi H.S., Fukushima’s Gakuho Ishikawa H.S. boys took the lead on the first leg of the National High School Ekiden and held it the rest of the way, taking 24 seconds off the CR to win their first-ever national title in an incredible 2:00:36 for 42.195 km in 7 legs.Yota Mashiko led off by slicing 23 seconds off the fastest-ever time by a Japanese-born athlete on
The Nagano Higashi H.S. girls pulled off a perfect repetition of their start-to-finish win at last year’s National High School Ekiden, taking the lead on the first leg again this time and never letting go. Opening runner Nami Kawakami won the 6.0 km First Stage by 2 seconds in 19:06, 2nd runner Haruna Tabata extended it to 12 seconds, and 3rd runner Airi Mashiba added another 30 seconds to the
The 2025 Valencia Marathon lowered its time limit from six hours to 5 hours 30 minutes to create a more streamlined event and reopen roads earlier
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https://worldathletics.org/news/news/emmanuel-kiprop-kipruto-suspensionA very interesting and groundbreaking case involving Emmanuel Kiprop Kipruto, who was a member of Asahi Kasei’s 2025 New Year Ekiden national champion team. Sure to be the first of many such cases. The timing of this decision 13 days out from the 2026 New Year Ekiden is probably not a coincidence.
