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
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