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Iizawa and Nakagawa Break Meet Records - National University Individual Track and Field Championships Day One Results



Usually a 2nd-tier meet held in June every year in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, this year the National University Individual Track and Field Championships have been moved up to this weekend with a full schedule of events and top-level collegiate talent.

Friday's opening day kicked off with a meet record in the men's 1500 m from Kazuto Iizawa (Tokai Univ.). Iizawa took almost 2 seconds off the old record to win in 3:44.54, with teammate Jin Mizoguchi also under the old record in 3:46.49 for 2nd. The top 9 in the final were all under 3:50, pretty good for a Japanese collegiate meet. Sheila Cherotich (Meiji Kokusai Iryo Univ.) was a second off the women's 1500 m meet record, winning in 4:21.75 over Saki Katagihara (Tsukuba Univ.).

The meet record also went in the men's hammer throw, with winner Tatsuto Nakagawa (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) throwing 70.85 m and 2nd-place Shota Fujita (Nihon Univ.) also over the old record at 70.56 m. Remi Katsuya took the women's hammer throw with a 59.96 m throw to make it a double win for Kyushu Kyoritsu University. Nanako Tamaoki (Kokushikan Univ.) tied her own women's 100 mH meet record, running 13.30 (+0.5) to win the final.

This meet usually only goes up to 5000 m, but the addition of a 10000 m this year brought in some bigger names. National ekiden champion Meijo University captain Narumi Kobayashi won the women's 10000 m in an easy 33:21.48 with 2nd through 4th all less than a second behind. Kobayashi will face #1 collegian Seira Fuwa (Takushoku Univ.) in Sunday's 5000 m. Runners from 2021 Hakone Ekiden 2nd-placer Soka University surprisingly took the top two spots in the men's 10000 m, Jun Kasai getting the win in 28:30.65 and Yudai Shimazu 2nd in 28:38.27. In 3rd was the team that beat them at Hakone, Komazawa University, repped by Kotaro Shinohara in 28:43.03.

Olympian Rachid Muratake (Juntendo Univ.) was under the meet record in the men's 110 mH with a wind-aided 13.43 (+2.6) to win the final. His teammate Kazuhiro Tateiwa took the men's 10000 mRW by over 30 seconds in 40:19.71. Hiromichi Yoshida (Kinzakigun Univ.) won the men's long jump with a 7.85 m (+0.6) jump. Ayaka Kora (Tsukuba Univ.) won the women's long jump at 6.20 m (-0.1). Rena Tanaka (Kagawa Univ.) won the women's pole vault, clearing 4.00 m on her first attempt. Sae Takemoto (Saga Sports Univ.) took the women's javelin, throwing 58.02 m.

The National University Individual Championships continue Saturday and Sunday.

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Stefan said…
I'm not sure what to think of Narumi Kobayashi's 10000m run as it is 2 minutes outside her PB of 31:22.34 which she set July last year. Perhaps she is still building in her training and conserved energy knowing she has to run in the 5000m on Sunday. I'd expect Seira Fuwa to run a good time on Sunday. How good? I can't wait to find out.
April 16, 2022 at 6:49 AM
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