The Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives has introduced that it is ladies’s operating staff shall be disbanded in March, 2023 on the finish of the 2022-23 season. Based in 1987, the Hokuren staff certified for the Nationwide Company Girls’s Ekiden 26 instances and produced notable athletes together with Yukiko Akaba, a 2008 Olympian within the 5000 m and 10000 m. It did not make final 12 months’s Nationwide Company Girls’s Ekiden, ending twenty ninth on the qualifying race.
Along with competing in races, the staff often held academic session and operating occasions for varsity kids and most people to assist contribute to society by spreading the love of the game. Its actions will stay unchanged in the course of the 2022-23 season and can nonetheless compete as normal. It can additionally proceed to assist the Hokuren Distance Problem sequence of observe meets held throughout Hokkaido each summer season.
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