Ekiden season rolls on, and for everyone who didn’t make the top 10 at the Hakone Ekiden’s 100th running this past January that means a trip to western Tokyo’s Showa Linen Park this Saturday to line up on the runway of the air defense base next door to try to qualify for the 101st Hakone Ekiden. The 43 Tokyo-area universities at the Hakone Ekiden Qualifier Half Marathon, the Yosenkai, each
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There was a lot of action at the 36th running of the Izumo Ekiden Monday in Shimane, but it really came down to an anchor stage showdown between three of the biggest names on the university men’s collegiate circuit. For the first five legs it was mostly between two-time defending champ Komazawa University and the top four-ranked Ivy League Select Team, Aoyama Gakuin University, Koku Gakuin
To start the week Lindie Naughton brings us all the Irish endurance action and news from the weekend just gone (Monday 14th October). In the women’s 6km race at the Autumn Open Cross-Country held on the National Cross-Country Course at Abbotstown on Sunday (October 14) English visitor Sophie Tarver pushed the pace from the start […]
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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
