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Kamino Suffers Fractured Rib


Former Hakone Ekiden uphill specialist and 2024 Olympic marathon trials qualifier Daichi Kamino, 28, revealed on his Youtube channel on Feb. 8 that he has suffered a stress fracture of his ribs. Kamino said that during training on Feb. 5 he felt sudden pain in his back. When the pain didn't go away after taking a day off, he went to the hospital on the 7th and was found to have sustained a fractured rib.

"It's not a major fracture, so it should take too long to heal," Kamino said, indicating that he will take two weeks fully off and may not be able to run for up to a month. He said that doctors told him that his characteristic arm swing may have caused the fracture by repetitively compressing his chest cavity. "My first priority is to get healed," he said. "It's important to keep doing what training I can while injured, but to keep it to what I can do safely without overdoing it."

Translator's note: Kamino was 2nd at the Dec. 19 Hofu Yomiuri Marathon in a PB 2:09:34. On Jan. 30 he was a pacer at the Osaka International Women's Marathon, pacing winner Mizuki Matsuda the entire way to a 2:20:52 finish.

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Andrew Armiger said…
That seems... highly unusual.
February 11, 2022 at 7:56 AM
RigaJags said…
Weird. But let's hope he gets healthy soon again.

On a side not, are you covering the National Corporate half marathon scheduled on sunday?
If it goes ahead of course.

I gave a look at the entry list (trying to figure it out as i'm not a japanese speaker) and seems a good field.
The 10 university runners that are allowed (because of the cancellation of the other half marathons) to run aren't the Hakone elite but there are a few interesting names: Tamaki Fujimoto that run together with Miura on the second stage this year and Juntendo's Tatsuya Iyoda and Kazuki Ishii are good names. Also keep an eye on Asumu Yamamoto.
February 11, 2022 at 8:23 PM
Brett Larner said…
Unusual to say the least....
February 12, 2022 at 1:08 PM
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