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Stepping up to the 10,000 meter distance, the same sources show that these 19 Tokyo universities list over 190 runners with personal bests under 30:00 (14 more sub 30 minute runners make up an all-star team of runners from other Tokyo universities); about 90 US collegians ran under 30:00 in 2009.
Ekiden (駅伝) is a long-distance running multi-stage relay race, mostly held on roads. [1]: 812 [2]The original Japanese term had nothing to do with a sport or a competition, but it simply referred to the age old post-horse or stagecoach courier system which transmitted communication by stages, instead of one horse or a man covering the entire long distance.
Hisanori Kitajima (born 16 October 1984) is a Japanese long-distance runner. ... Kitajim competed for Toyo University and won a stage of the Hakone Ekiden. [1] 2015 ...
The residents of the Chikusei-so will run in the Hakone Ekiden together. Kakeru responds strongly to Haiji's rash suggestion. All the residents are amateurs when it comes to long distance running. Nobody takes Haiji's words seriously. The residents attempt to carry on with their college lives, but Haiji's shadow approaches.
On the first Sunday of November, the men compete in the 8 stage, 106.8 kilometer National Collegiate Ekiden Championship in Aichi and Mie Prefectures. [4] This race is the second of the season's big three, the first being the Izumo Ekiden and the last being the Hakone Ekiden. Here, 27 teams battle for the national title.
In his youth he was a long-distance runner and won stages of the Hakone Ekiden in 1921 and 1922. In his political career, ...
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He graduated from Komazawa University, during the student has participated in Hakone Ekiden.. He won the 2000 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon, clocking 2:06:51 on December 3, 2000 – the second fastest run of 2000 after Antonio Pinto's time at the London Marathon.