Skip to main content

Shibui and Tosa to Run All Japan Jitsugyodan Women's Ekiden (updated)

http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/081201/spg0812011808001-n1.htm
http://mainichi.jp/enta/sports/news/20081202k0000m050106000c.html

translated and edited by Brett Larner

The entry lists for the 27 teams competing in the 6-stage, 42.195 km All Japan Jitsugyodan Women's Ekiden, to be held Dec. 14 in Gifu Prefecture, were announced on Dec. 1. Leading 7-time champion Team Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo are Beijing Olympians Yoko Shibui (10000 m) and Reiko Tosa (marathon).

2007 runner-up Team Daiichi Seimei will field Yoshimi Ozaki, winner of November's Tokyo International Women's Marathon and the first woman to secure a place on the Japanese national team for the 2009 Berlin World Championships marathon.

Two-time 2nd place and three-time 3rd place finisher Team Tenmaya's squad will include Beijing Olympics marathoner Yurika Nakamura, Beijing Olympic marathon team alternate Tomo Morimoto, and Athens Olympics marathon 7th place finisher Naoko Sakamoto.

Other Beijing Olympians on the entry list include 5000 m and 10000 m team members Kayoko Fukushi (Team Wacoal) and Yukiko Akaba (Team Hokuren). Sakura A.C., the training camp run by coach Yoshio Koide, will send two teams, Toyota Jidoshoki and Aruze. 2007 Tokyo Marathon winner Hitomi Niiya will lead Team Toyota Jidoshoki, while her training partner and 2008 Hokkaido Marathon winner Yukari Sahaku will be the top Japanese member of Team Aruze.

Start lists for the ekiden will be announced Dec. 13.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Most-Read This Week

Federation Tells World Championships Marathoner Horibata To Go On Diet

http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/etc/news/20110307-OHT1T00258.htm translated by Brett Larner Having made the 2011 World Championships marathon team by running a PB of 2:09:25 to come in 3rd overall and as the top Japanese finisher at the Mar. 6 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, Hiroyuki Horibata (24, Team Asahi Kasei), talked to the media at Osaka Airport on Mar. 7. Following Sunday's race Rikuren director Keisuke Sawaki , 67, told Horibata, "Let's cut things down a bit until the World Championships," directing him to go on a diet. The 189 cm Horibata weighs 72 kg [~6'3", 160 lbs]. When he joined Team Asahi Kasei in 2005 at age 18 he weighed 65 kg, and this weight is still generally listed on his profile at races and in the media. "For some reason it never changes," he said with a grin. His coach Takeshi Soh , 58, commented, "If he was hungrier for glory his world would change completely," slapping the 'heavyweight division runner...
Post a Comment
Read more

World Marathon Majors Japanese Entries

We're back from a short summer break. A week and a half out from the first race of the season's four World Marathon Majors races, here's a look at Japanese athletes scheduled to run. Everything right now is about qualifying for the MGC Race, the official trials race for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics to be held in the fall of 2027 in Nagoya. The JAAF makes no mistake about wanting to keep its top people racing domestically where it can get a share of revenue from the TV broadcast and race operations, so anyone who decides to race overseas has to do it in a WA platinum label race and hit either 2:06:30 or 2:23:30, regardless of place, course or weather if they want to make the trials. At the same time concessions are make for domestic races, like for example the late-August Hokkaido Marathon where up to 3 men and 3 women can qualify if they go 2:12:00 or 2:32:00. As a result, you get things like last year where amateur runner Yudai Fukuda made the trials by finishing 3rd Jap...
1 comment
Read more

Nat'l University Ekiden Updates Here

Looks like I just went over my update limit on Twitter - sorry, it's the first time I've tried to use it for this. I'll look for another option next time. In the meantime I'll add updates to the comments below. Not sure if that has a max too but I guess we'll find out. Update: Part one of the Nationals commentary can be found here .
77 comments
Read more