Host team Kyoto was back on top at Sunday’s National Women’s Ekiden, taking the lead on the 2nd of the 42.195 km race’s 9 legs and rolling on to win its 19th national title in the event’s 43-year history in 2:15:26 with 4 individual stage wins.Kyoto’s lead runner Kokoro Nakachi was only 3 seconds behind First Stage winner Erika Tanoura of Chiba, and it didn’t take much for its next runner Yua
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