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The Hakone Ekiden’s exclusivity has created significant regional disparities, but its prestige and historical significance keep it at the forefront of collegiate running in Japan. While national races aim to level the playing field, Hakone’s dominance continues to shape the distorted and anomalous landscape of men’s collegiate long ...
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.
[1] [2] The relay format was based on the ekiden races native to Japan , where six runners team up for legs of varying length to cover the classic 42.195 km marathon distance. The first, third and fifth legs were of 5 km each, the second and fourth legs were 10 km each, and the final leg covered the remaining 7.195 km. [ 3 ]
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 ...
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.
Hakone Ekiden Course—from Tokyo to Hakone, 108.0 km, mostly on Japan National Route 1 and Route 15. Runners run on the divided route for ten parts on January 2 (to Hakone) and January 3 (to Tokyo) every year. Lake Sagami—hosted canoeing and rowing for the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Distance runner Mo Farah takes part in a training session near Flagstaff in August 2019. (Michael Steele / Getty Images) “There’s just such a great overlap,” Baxter said.
Masakazu Fujiwara (born 6 March 1981 in Ōkawachi, Hyōgo), in Japanese 藤原正和, is Japanese long-distance runner, who specializes in the marathon. He has a personal best of 2:08:12 hours for the event. He was the 2013 Japanese champion in the marathon and won the 2010 Tokyo Marathon. He trains at Honda Sports team. [1]