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Competing This Week (w/c 4 February)

With the indoor season in full swing, details of athletes competing in World Indoor Tour meetings this week and weekend are set out below. Czech Indoor Gala Tuesday 4 February Elliot Giles (Mile) Innes FitzGerald (3000m) Full Entry Lists Gran Premio Ciudad de Valencia (Spain) Friday 7 February Callum Dodds (800m) Ava Lloyd (1500m) Tom […]

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Gold Coast Marathon Winner Misato Horie Retires

Winner of the 2016 Gold Coast Marathon and 4th in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2011 Asian Championships, Sysmex corporate team athlete Misato Horie has retired following her run at the Feb. 2 Hyogo Prefecture Ekiden. Born in 1987, Horie’s best achievement at Seiryo H.S. was making the Kinki Region championships. But after entering Mukogawa Joshi University and starting to run the 3000 m

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Wakabayashi Says He’ll Talk to New Employer If Named to Tokyo Worlds Team

After running a debut and collegiate record of 2:06:07 at Sunday’s Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon as the last race of his career, Aoyama Gakuin University 4th-year Hiroki Wakabayashi said on Feb. 3 that he would consider keeping it going for the half year it would take if he is named to the Japanese team for September’s Tokyo World Championships. Wakabayashi plans to retire and has already accepted

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Yuya Yoshida Wins Kanagawa Half Marathon

 The 47th Kanagawa Half Marathon took place Sunday in Yokohama on a course starting and finishing outside the Nissin Oil Group’s Isogo factory. First across the finish line was the winner of December’s Fukuoka International Half Marathon and Aoyama Gakuin University alumnus Yuya Yoshida (GMO), who clocked 1:02:12. Aoyama Gakuin 3rd-year Shunya Udagawa was next in a 1