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Yoshizumi Wins 7th-Straight Fuji Mountain Race

The 78th Fuji Mountain Race was held on Friday, July 25. Between the long course race, 21 km climbing 3000 m to the peak of Mount Fuji, and the Fifth Station race, 15 km climbing 1480 m, a total of 3,363 people from across Japan and around the world took part. In the long course race, Yuri Yoshizumi, 39, won the women’s title for the 7th time in a row, with accomplished trail runner Ruy Ueda, 31,

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Japan Dominates Half Marathon – World University Games Day 6 Japanese Results

Japan didn’t quite pull off a sweep of the men’s and women’s half marathon at the 2025 FISU World University Games, but it was pretty close. In the men’s race Waseda University’s Shinsaku Kudo, the fastest man in the race with a best of 1:00:06 from Marugame this past February, led start to finish, keeping it around 62-flat pace before finishing in a WUG record 1:02:29. Turkey’s Ramazan Bastug