It is the final massive weekend of street racing on the Japanese calendar this season. However even earlier than it kicks off, there is a little bit of observe motion Saturday. Tokyo Olympics steepler Kosei Yamaguchi and some different Japanese athletes are benefiting from Australia’s borders opening up two weeks in the past to run the Sydney Monitor Basic. Yamaguchi is working within the males’s 3000 m nationwide championships, a tuneup for the 3000 mSC at subsequent week’s Melbourne Monitor Basic, each with assist from JRN. Streaming and reside outcomes right here.
Until Salpeter blows up there’s not likely anybody else within the race who may match her on time. 2019 world champion Ruth Chepngetich is the next-best within the area, however her finest time within the final 3 years is nearly 4 and a half minutes slower than Salpeter’s. Japan’s Yuka Ando is subsequent in line, and with one of many fastest-ever Japanese girls’s half marathons behind her ultimately month’s Nationwide Company Half Marathon Ando appears match sufficient to present her teammate Mao Ichiyama‘s women-only NR of two:20:29 a severe shot. Former middle-distance runner Kaena Takeyama, a coaching accomplice of Osaka Worldwide Ladies’s Marathon winner Mizuki Matsuda, is a high-potential first-timer with a 1:09:12 half marathon final 12 months, however probably the most fascinating debut comes from Yuka Suzuki. The gold medalist within the half marathon on the 2019 Napoli World College Video games, Suzuki’s objective is to interrupt the two:26:46 collegiate file in her final race earlier than graduating from Daito Bunka College this month.
- Kazuki Matsuyama (Toyo Univ.) – 1:00:43 half PB
- Ayumu Yamamoto (Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 1:00:43 half PB
- Yusaku Nomura (Juntendo Univ.) – 1:01:51 half PB
- Ryuto Igawa (Waseda Univ.) – 27:59.74 10000m finest
- Ken Tansho (Tokyo Kokusai Univ.) – 1st, ’22 Hakone Ekiden third Stage
- Hironori Kishimoto (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1st, ’22 Hakone Ekiden seventh Stage
- Yuito Nakamura (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1st, ’22 Hakone Ekiden ninth Stage
- Hironobu Nakakura (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1st, ’22 Hakone Ekiden tenth Stage
- Aoi Ota (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 2nd, ’22 Hakone Ekiden third Stage
- Kazuki Ishii (Juntendo Univ.) – 2nd, ’22 Hakone Ekiden 4th Stage
- Kazuma Takeda (Hosei Univ.) – 2nd, ’22 Hakone Ekiden Sixth Stage
- Shunpei Tomita (Meiji Univ.) – 2nd, ’22 Hakone Ekiden seventh Stage
- Issei Sato (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 2nd, ’22 Hakone Ekiden eighth Stage
- Kiyoto Hirabayashi (Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 2nd, ’22 Hakone Ekiden ninth Stage
- Taiga Seino (Toyo Univ.) – 2nd, ’22 Hakone Ekiden tenth Stage
- Tatsuya Iyoda (Juntendo Univ.) – third, ’22 Hakone Ekiden third Stage
- Takayuki Iida (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – third, ’22 Hakone Ekiden 4th Stage
- Hiroki Wakabayashi (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – third, ’22 Hakone Ekiden fifth Stage
- Takumu Kudo (Chuo Gakuin Univ.) – third, ’22 Hakone Ekiden Sixth Stage
- Haruta Koshi (Tokai Univ.) – third, ’22 Hakone Ekiden seventh Stage
- Yudai Nakazawa (Chuo Univ.) – third, ’22 Hakone Ekiden eighth Stage
- Jin Yuasa (Chuo Univ.) – third, ’22 Hakone Ekiden ninth Stage
If even half of them begin we’ll have a race on our arms, however both approach there is no reside stream, sadly.
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