On the Jan. 16 Nationwide Girls’s Ekiden Fuwa broke 5000 m nationwide file holder Ririka Hironaka‘s course file for the 4.0 km Fourth Stage, working 12:29 and passing 13 individuals en route. Put up-race she was enthusiastic about working the Combined Ekiden, saying, “There aren’t that many possibilities for women and men to run on the identical group, and I am actually wanting ahead to working in a brand new ekiden!”
However within the group’s announcement it stated, “Every thing going ahead is for one factor: profitable the Might 7 Nationwide Championships 10000 m and competing at Worlds!” The announcement additionally stated Fuwa was not working the Nationwide Cross Nation Championships, by which she had been entered. The Nationwide Championships 10000 m will likely be held Might 7 at Tokyo’s Nationwide Stadium. As certainly one of solely three Japanese ladies to presently have the Oregon World Championships 10000 m normal, a win at Nationals would assure Fuwa a spot on the Nationwide Crew. This seems to be her new precedence.
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