800 m national champions Rin Kubo and Ko Ochiai lead Japan’s team for next month’s Lima World U20 Championships, Kubo having just broken the NR with a 1:59.93 and Ochiai just off the NR at Nationals last month with a 1:45.82 in the heats. Sherry Drury is another one of Japan’s big U20 hopes and will run the 1500 m, and 2023 National High School Ekiden champion Saku Chosei H.S. dominates the
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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
