Friday’s opening day kicked off with a meet document within the males’s 1500 m from Kazuto Iizawa (Tokai Univ.). Iizawa took virtually 2 seconds off the outdated document to win in 3:44.54, with teammate Jin Mizoguchi additionally below the outdated document in 3:46.49 for 2nd. The highest 9 within the closing had been all below 3:50, fairly good for a Japanese collegiate meet. Sheila Cherotich (Meiji Kokusai Iryo Univ.) was a second off the ladies’s 1500 m meet document, profitable in 4:21.75 over Saki Katagihara (Tsukuba Univ.).
The meet document additionally went within the males’s hammer throw, with winner Tatsuto Nakagawa (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) throwing 70.85 m and 2nd-place Shota Fujita (Nihon Univ.) additionally over the outdated document at 70.56 m. Remi Katsuya took the ladies’s hammer throw with a 59.96 m throw to make it a double win for Kyushu Kyoritsu College. Nanako Tamaoki (Kokushikan Univ.) tied her personal ladies’s 100 mH meet document, working 13.30 (+0.5) to win the ultimate.
This meet often solely goes as much as 5000 m, however the addition of a 10000 m this yr introduced in some greater names. Nationwide ekiden champion Meijo College captain Narumi Kobayashi received the ladies’s 10000 m in a simple 33:21.48 with 2nd via 4th all lower than a second behind. Kobayashi will face #1 collegian Seira Fuwa (Takushoku Univ.) in Sunday’s 5000 m. Runners from 2021 Hakone Ekiden 2nd-placer Soka College surprisingly took the highest two spots within the males’s 10000 m, Jun Kasai getting the win in 28:30.65 and Yudai Shimazu 2nd in 28:38.27. In third was the group that beat them at Hakone, Komazawa College, repped by Kotaro Shinohara in 28:43.03.
Olympian Rachid Muratake (Juntendo Univ.) was below the meet document within the males’s 110 mH with a wind-aided 13.43 (+2.6) to win the ultimate. His teammate Kazuhiro Tateiwa took the males’s 10000 mRW by over 30 seconds in 40:19.71. Hiromichi Yoshida (Kinzakigun Univ.) received the lads’s lengthy bounce with a 7.85 m (+0.6) bounce. Ayaka Kora (Tsukuba Univ.) received the ladies’s lengthy bounce at 6.20 m (-0.1). Rena Tanaka (Kagawa Univ.) received the ladies’s pole vault, clearing 4.00 m on her first try. Sae Takemoto (Saga Sports activities Univ.) took the ladies’s javelin, throwing 58.02 m.
The Nationwide College Particular person Championships proceed Saturday and Sunday.
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