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Mizumoto, Yoshioka, Kobayashi and Matsueda Win Nationwide XC Titles


Within the U20 girls’s 6 km, 9:10.50 runner Kana Mizumoto (Osaka Kunei Joshi Gakuin H.S.) ran 19:55 to take the junior title by 8 seconds over Akari Matsumoto (Chikushi Joshi Gakuen H.S.), holder of a 9:11.96 finest for 3000 m. Yoshino Namiki (Tokiwa H.S.) was third in 20:08.
Within the U20 males’s 8 km, favourite Hiroto Yoshioka (Saku Chosei H.S.) waited till the final lap to interrupt from the pack together with rival Yuta Minamisaka (Kurashiki H.S.). On the course’s rolling hills he utilized strain to drop Minamisaka, pulling away for the win by 3 seconds in 23:36. Sonata Nagashima (Nishiwaki Kogyo H.S.) was third in 23:46 to make it a clear sweep of the highest 3 by 2nd-years.
2021 Nationwide College Half Marathon winner Narumi Kobayashi (Meijo) went one-on-one with company leaguer Yuka Sarumida (Univ. Ent.) within the senior girls’s 8 km. Nonetheless along with 1 km to go, Kobayashi waited till the ultimate straight to kick in for the win by simply 1 second in 26:34. Final 12 months’s Fifth-placer Momoka Kawaguchi (Toyota Jidoshokki) moved as much as third this time in 26:45.

“This race was about successful,” Kobayashi mentioned. “My plan all alongside was to attend to the top.” Kobayashi is one in all 5 Japanese girls to have cleared the qualification customary for the ten,000 m at this summer time’s Oregon World Championships. “I wish to carry the momentum from this XC title over to the observe,” she mentioned.

Final 12 months’s runner-up Hiroki Matsueda (Fujitsu) took management of the senior males’s 10 km within the early levels, falling behind briefly mid-race however rapidly coming again to overpower Jun Kasai (Soka Univ.) and take the win by 5 seconds in 28:46. Yohei Ikeda (Kanebo) was third in 28:56, with highschool 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m NR holder Keita Sato (Rakunan H.S.) eighth in 29:18.

Matsueda misplaced to 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura (Juntendo Univ.) final 12 months, each of them clocking 29:10. This time Miura was a last-second withdrawal. “I am glad I received,” Matsueda mentioned, “however I actually needed to race him once more and beat him head-to-head.” Matsueda ran the 5000 m ultimately summer time’s Tokyo Olympics, ending final in his warmth. “Every thing about that was insufficient,” he mentioned. “All I can do is preserve taking over challenges and get higher at racing on the world degree.” First up, he’ll attempt to qualify for Oregon this summer time.

2022 Nationwide Cross Nation Championships

Uminonakamichi Kaihin Park, Fukuoka, 26 Feb. 2022

1. Kana Mizumoto (Osaka Kunei Joshi Gakuin H.S.) – 19:55

2. Akari Matsumoto (Chikushi Joshi Gakuen H.S.) – 20:03

3. Yoshino Namiki (Tokiwa H.S.) – 20:08

4. Kana Mizogami (Luther Gakuin H.S.) – 20:09

5. Mako Nakasai (Chikushi Joshi Gakuen H.S.) – 20:10

6. Miku Muraoka (Nagano Higashi H.S.) – 20:15

7. Aiko Hosoya (Ritsumeikan Uji H.S.) – 20:18

8. Marin Nishizawa (Osaka Kunei Joshi Gakuin H.S.) – 20:31

9. Hinano Okamoto (Hakuo Joshi H.S.) – 20:34

10. Hinano Shiroki (Yamada H.S.) – 20:39

1. Hiroto Yoshioka (Saku Chosei H.S.) – 23:36

2. Yuta Minamisaka (Kurashiki H.S.) – 23:39

3. Sonata Nagashima (Nishiwaki Kogyo H.S.) – 23:46

4. Itta Tameike (Rakunan H.S.) – 23:49

5. Tomoki Aramaki (Omuta H.S.) – 23:53

6. Mashu Nishimura (Jiyugaoka H.S.) – 23:54

7. Tasuku Yamazaki (Chuetsu H.S.) – 23:56

8. Riku Tamame (Izumi Chuo H.S.) – 24:02

9. Reo Niizuma (Nishiwaki Kogyo H.S.) – 24:10

10. Shumpei Yamaguchi (Saku Chosei H.S.) – 24:14

1. Narumi Kobayashi (Meijo Univ.) – 26:34

2. Yuka Sarumida (Univ. Ent.) – 26:35

3. Momoka Kawaguchi (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 26:45

4. Maki Izumida (Daiichi Seimei) – 26:54

5. Yuno Yamanaka (Ehime Ginko) – 27:02

6. Nana Kuraoka (Kagoshima Ginko) – 27:04

7. Minami Yamanouchi (Raffine) – 27:06

8. Hikaru Kitagawa (Osaka Geijutsu Univ.) – 27:08

9. Yuma Yamamoto (Meijo Univ.) – 27:14

10. Yukari Ishizawa (Hitachi) – 27:21

1. Hiroki Matsueda (Fujitsu) – 28:46

2. Jun Kasai (Soka Univ.) – 28:51

3. Yohei Ikeda (Kanebo) – 28:56

4. Kazuya Shiojiri (Fujitsu) – 29:00

5. Yuta Bando (Fujitsu) – 29:06

6. Takashi Ichida (Asahi Kasei) – 29:09

7. Kotaro Shinohara (Komazawa Univ.) – 29:12

8. Keita Sato (Rakunan H.S.) – 29:18

9. Ryuya Kajitani (Subaru) – 29:22

10. Yusuke Tamura (Kurosaki Harima) – 29:29

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translated and edited by Brett Larner

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