The Nationwide College Particular person Observe and Area Championships wrapped its third day with three new meet information. First up, Atsushi Shobu (Waseda Univ.) led the highest 5 beneath the outdated report within the males’s 3000 m steeplechase, successful in 8:40.57. The subsequent 4, Soma Hattori (Juntendo Univ.), Shohei Yamaguchi (Teikyo Univ.), Ryotaro Onuma (Josai Univ.) and Kento Uchida (Rikkyo Univ.) have been all beneath 8:50, and with all 5 coming from completely different universities it confirmed the affect Olympian collegian Ryuji Miura of Juntendo College is having on making the steeple a spotlight occasion in Japan.
Girls’s steeple collegiate report holder Reimi Yoshimura (Daito Bunka College), now a 4th-year, additionally broke the meet report, taking on 4 seconds off 2016 Olympian Anju Takamizawa‘s outdated report to win in 9:53.64. 2nd-placer Nanase Tanimoto (Meijo Univ.) was far again in 10:07.19.
Tokyo Olympian Kazuki Kurokawa (Hosei Univ.) rounded out the haul of information, successful the males’s 400 m hurdles by precisely 1 second in 49.40, 0.28 beneath the outdated report.
Information apart, the largest information got here within the ladies’s 5000 m the place collegiate 10000 m NR holder Seira Fuwa (Takushoku Univ.) kicked off her 2nd 12 months with a last-place end. Nationwide College Ekiden champion Meijo College took 1st and third, 4th-year Yuma Yamamoto getting the win in 15:49.19 and new recruit Nanaka Yonezawa working her first 5000 m within the Meijo uniform in 15:51.62 behind Risa Yamazaki (Nittai Univ.).
However Fuwa by no means engaged, working 3:30/km from the beginning and ending final by over 37 seconds in 17:30.45. Put up-race she revealed that she had injured her Achilles tendon at January’s Nationwide Girls’s Ekiden and been compelled to take time, solely beginning up once more on Apr. 7. She and her coach had indicated that her objectives for this race have been to make it to the end and to run an excellent tempo, and with each achieved appeared constructive in regards to the outcome and her possibilities at subsequent month’s 10000 m nationwide championships.
The males’s 5000 m was small with solely 7 starters, however decently aggressive. Kotaro Shinohara (Komazawa Univ.) took the win in 13:47.90, lower than 3 seconds off the meet report and fewer than a second forward of Shota Nakano (Chuo Univ.), 2nd in 13:48.36, and Masaya Tsurukawa (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.), third in 13:48.66.
One other noteworthy and really uncommon outcome got here within the discus throw. Girls’s U20 NR holder and meet report holder Maki Saito (Tokyo Joshi Taiiku Univ.) threw 53.96 m to win the ladies’s discus, improbably beating males’s discus winner Ryoga Tobikawa (Tokai Univ.) who threw solely 53.31 m.
In different motion on the final day of the meet:
- Shuri Aono (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.) was simply off the meet report within the ladies’s 200 m last, successful in 23.86 (+0.3).
- Reon Miura (Waseda Univ.) gained the males’s 200 m last in 20.85 (+1.0), 0.1 up on Ryo Kimura (Meiji Univ.).
- Hikaru Yamaguchi (Juntendo Univ.) took the ladies’s 800 m last in 2:10.36, Junya Matsumoto (Hosei Univ) successful the males’s 800 m last in 1:49.95.
- Honoka Aoki (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) gained the ladies’s 400 mH in 58.23.
- Tomoya Kawasawa (Nittai Univ.) gained the males’s pole vault, clearing 5.30 m on his first try bu unable to go larger.
- Yuto Adachi (Fukuoka Univ.) took the males’s triple bounce with a 15.68 m (0.0) on his first bounce that ended up being sufficient to win.
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