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Brilliant in Belfast – Irish Milers Meeting

PBs for Abbie Ives and Justin Davies highlighted a fantastic afternoon of racing at the Irish Milers Meeting in Belfast on Saturday (10 May). If you put the words Belfast, mid-May, a Saturday afternoon, and 800m together, you get something special. That has certainly been the case in recent years at the Belfast Irish Milers […]

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Lorot and Suzuki Win Sendai, Kiyama and Kipyegon in Sagamihara

Ayuko Suzuki (Japan Post) was back from the dead yet again to win today’s Sendai International Half Marathon women’s race. Starting out with company from Selly Kaptich (Kyudenko) and Yuri Mitsune (Hitachi), Suzuki was always a step ahead. Putting away Mitsune early in the 2nd half, it took until the last km for her to break Kaptich, winning in 1:11:00 with Kaptich 8 seconds back in 2nd. Mitsune

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Kanto Regionals Day Three Highlights

Day 3 of the Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships was mostly filled by qualifying rounds, with the only track finals being the men’s 10000 m race walks. Yushi Nakajima (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.) had the fastest time of the day, winning a close D1 men’s race in a 39:41.90 PB. Sota Arai (Heisei Kokusai Univ.) also PBd to win the D2 race in 42:39.62 by just 0.40 over Takuma Hachimura

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Flores and Aoki Break MR – Kanto Regionals Day Two Highlights

Following up her collegiate record 51.71 last weekend in Shizuoka, Arie Flores (Nittai Univ.) lit up a windy 2nd day of the Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships with a solo 52.82 MR, over half a second under the old record and beating 2nd place by a second and a half. With her Japanese citizenship transfer from Peru still in processing it’s only a matter of time before Flores