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Aoyama Gakuin Scores Next-Level Threepeat to Win Hakone Ekiden Overall

complete report coming shortly102nd Hakone Ekiden Day TwoHakone-Tokyo, 3 Jan. 202621 teams, 5 stages, 109.6 km net downhilloverall course: 21 teams, 10 stages, 217.1 kmcomplete resultsOverall Team Results1. Aoyama Gakuin University – 10:37:34 – CR2. Koku Gakuin University – 10:40:04 – all-time #23. Juntendo University – 10:43:55 – all-time #64. Waseda University – 10:44:29 – all-time #85. Chuo

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Kuroda Conquers the Mountain to Give Aoyama Gakuin the Hakone Ekiden Day One CR Again

After a wild New Year Ekiden corporate men’s national championships yesterday that saw new CR on 6 of the race’s 7 stages and a 7-second miss on the one that wasn’t broken, Day One of the 102nd Hakone Ekiden more than lived up to what the pros had done 24 hours earlier.Only one runner, Chuo University’s Yamato Yoshii in 2022, had ever broken 61 minutes for the 21.3 km First Stage, but when Chuo’s