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A Chinese influencer ignored restrictions and race officials’ directions and ran on the Hakone Ekiden course to shoot video during the race’s uphill Fifth Stage on Jan. 2. He later apologized.The influencer, Shen Haoze, posts about running and marathons, and on the Chinese social media site Weibo has nearly 5 million followers. A clip of him running on the closed road course of the Hakone

 It was another record-breaking year at the Hakone Ekiden. All 13 of the course records, the 10 individual stages, the Day One and Day Two courses and the overall course, have been set since 2019, and out of those 6 fell this time, 2 of them broken by multiple athletes or teams. All of them had performances in at least their all-time top 6, and 9 of them in their all-time top 3.First Stage (

In 2023, Norway’s Stian Angermund tested positive for the banned substance chlorthalidone

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Happy New Year! The first Weekend Round Up of 2025 features plenty of fast and competitive racing; hopefully this continues throughout the year. James Rhodes brings you the highlights of the racing action.  The racing year ended with a bang, thanks to the Podium NYE 5k at Battersea Park. The event, sponsored by Mizuno, saw […]

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 At the closing ceremony of the 101st Hakone Ekiden on Jan. 3 at the Yomiuri Newspaper building in Otemachi, Tokyo, Akimu Nomura was named MVP of this year’s race for his role in helping Aoyama Gakuin University score it 2nd-straight course record win. Nomura became the first runner ever to break 57 minutes on the 20.8 km downhill Sixth Stage, setting a new CR of 56:47, and was also awarded