The first major national-level high school ekiden of the season, the 39th Kurayoshi Joshi Ekiden and 44th Nihonkai Ekiden took place Saturday in Kurayoshi, Tottori. Serving as the girls’ race with 5 legs totaling 21.0975 km, Kurayoshi saw Osaka’s Kunei Joshi Gakuin H.S. return to the top spot for the first time in 5 years with a 1:08:58 win, its 3rd time ever winning. A total of 51 teams competed
This year’s Chicago Marathon will be remembered for one thing, cf. the photo above. No Japanese women were in the race to get thrashed by Ruth Chepngetich en route to her era-defining 2:09:56 world record, but five Japanese men were, and most of them did get thrashed. With a 2:06:35 PB Kyohei Hosoya (Kurosaki Harima) went out on low-2:04 NR pace, running comfortably through halfway before a surge
Korir’s time was a personal best and world lead for 2024
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Kenya’s Chepngetich becomes the first woman to break 2:10 in the marathon
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Olivia Tsim, Stacey Smith and Finn McNally ran the fastest parkrun times in the UK this weekend (12th October). This week our parkrun top ten is dedicated to the memory of Robbie Fitzgibbon. Robbie ran Worthing parkrun three times this year and had a parkrun best of 14:31 in 2017 (and a 1500m PB of […]
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