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Osaka Kunei H.S. Breaks Kitakyushu Women’s Ekiden CR

The last big women’s race of championship ekiden season, the Kitakyushu Women’s Invitational Ekiden saw 8 corporate teams square off against 19 of the top high school teams in the country over a 27.2 km race. For corporate leaguers that was divided into 5 legs, with the final leg, 10.4 km, split into two legs for the high school teams.Kairi Ikeno put National High School Ekiden 8th-placer Suma

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Miyagi Wins Its First-Ever National Men’s Ekiden Title

In a lot of ways this was one of the more interesting races in National Men’s Ekiden history. 2 of the country’s current top high schoolers, Fukushima’s Yota Mashiko and Hyogo’s Haruki Niizuma, made sure the race got off right with a CR-pace attack from the beginning. Everyone went with them, but it quickly shook down to the 2 of them and Miyagi’s Hiroto Suzuki, a relatively unknown factor.