Fukube Breaks 100 mH NR - National Corporate Track and Field Championships Highlights

The 70th National Corporate Track and Field Championships took place Friday through Sunday at Gifu Memorial Center Nagaragawa Field in Gifu. The performance of the meet happened Sunday, when Mako Fukube (NKK) broke her own women's 100 mH NR. Opening with a 13.00 (-1.5) meet record to win her qualifying heat, Fukube was back 3 hours later to run 12.73 (+1.1) in the final. That took 0.09 off the NR she set in the semifinals at July's Oregon World Championships, and put her under the qualifying standard for next summer's Budapest World Championships. Runner-up Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko) ran 13.03 in the final, 0.07 under the old MR, with Chisato Kiyoyama (Ichigo) just off the old MR at 13.12.

A near-miss on another NR came in the women's 100 m. Mei Kodama (Mizuno) won her qualifying heat in 11.24 (+1.3), 0.18 under the 2001-era MR and just 0.03 from Chisato Fukushima's 2010 NR of 11.21. Hopes were high that Kodama would get the NR in the final, but while her 11.39 (-0.0) there was only enough to get under the old MR again Kodama still walked away from the meet at #2 on the all-time Japanese lists and with the NR looking like hers for the taking. Kodama also picked up the MR in the 200 m, running 23.41 (-1.0) to go 0.18 under the 2000-era NR in the qualifying round and going under it again with a 23.49 (-0.7) in the final.

Other meet records that fell over the weekend:

Shunya Takayama (Zenrin) won the men's 110 mH final in 13.39 (+0.8), 0.09 under the MR set by Taio Kanai last year.
NR holder Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) ran 4:10.41 to win the women's 1500 m, 0.60 under the previous MR from 1994.
Olympic and World Championships silver medalist Koki Ikeda (Asahi Kasei) set a men's 10000 mRW MR of 38:15.86.
Sumire Hata (Shibata Kogyo) jumped a PB 6.67 m (+1.6) on her 6th attempt in the women's long jump, bettering Kumiko Ikeda's 2005 MR and inching Hata closer to Ikeda's NR of 6.86 m.
Mariko Morimoto (Uchida Kensetsu) got the women's triple jump MR with a 13.71 (+1.4) jump on her 3rd attempt.
Women's discus throw NR holder Nanaka Kori (Niigata Albirex RC) picked up the antique MR with a 2nd attempt of 56.15 m, 0.22 m up on Yuka Murofushi's MR from 1999. Kori also won the women's shot put with a throw of 15.55 m.

In distance events:

Steepler Ryoma Aoki (Honda) won the men's 1500 m in 3:40.90.
Judy Jepngetich (Shiseido) took the junior women's 3000 m in 8:50.68.
Last year's women's 10000 m winner Tabitha Njeri Kamau (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) did it again, winning in 31:17.40 by less than 3 seconds over Pauline Kamulu Kaveke (Route Inn Hotels).
Stanley Waithaka (Yakult) won the men's 10000 m in a photo finish with MR holder Richard Kimunyan (Hitachi Butsuryu), Waithaka timed at 27:19.86 and Kimunyan at 27:19.92. Benard Koech (Kyudenko) was right behind in 27:20.02 for 3rd, making this the most exciting race of the meet.
Teresiah Muthoni (Daiso) scored the women's 5000 m title in 14:57.81, not far off the MR of 14:55.32.
Jonathan Ndiku (Hitachi Butsuryu) won the men's 5000 m in 13:22.69 after doubling in the 3000 mSC, where he was 2nd in 8:32.01.
Yukari Ishizawa (Hitachi) won the women's 3000 mSC in 10:14.03.
Philemon Kiplagat (Aisan Kogyo) won a close men's 3000 mSC in 8:30.18, beating Ndiku by just over a second with Olympian Kosei Yamaguchi (Aisan Kogyo) 3rd in 8:37.63.

One other record fell on the track over the weekend. At Friday's Nighter Time Trial in Nagasaki, girls' 3000 m H.S. NR holder Caroline Kariba, a 2nd-year at Kamimura Gakuen H.S., broke her own record, winning in 8:42.31. Kariba was nearly 30 seconds up on teammate Airi Tashima, with Kamimura Gakuen runners taking the top 5 spots.

Wanjiru Breaks Own MR, Fuwa and Ishida Return - Kanto Regionals Day 1 Highlights

Japan's best college meet kicked off Thursday at Tokyo's National Stadium at the 103rd Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships . Looking like she was doing a controlled tempo run, 2nd-yr Sarah Wanjiru (Daito Bunka Univ.) lapped the entire field to win the women's 10000 m in a meet record 32:02.87, almost 15 seconds under the record she last year in her debut. 3rd-yr Aoi Takahashi (Josai Univ.) was 2nd in 33:29.22 and 2nd-yr Nana Nagashima (Josai Kokusai Univ.) 3rd in a PB 33:30.28, but the other main news alongside Wanjiru's new record was the return of collegiate 10000 m record holder Seira Fuwa (Takushoku Univ.) in her first 10000 m in 19 months. Fuwa hung at the back of the chase pack for the first half, made a move to lead it in the second half, and ultimately faded to 9th in 33:40.20. Every comeback has to start somewhere. The D1 men's 10000 m had a tight group up front with the top 6 all finishing within 6 seconds and under 28:10. 3rd-yr Jam

Two-Time Olympic Marathon Medalist Erick Wainaina Referred to Prosectors on Suspicion of Assault

According to investigators, two-time Olympic marathon medalist Erick Wainaina has had his case referred to prosecutors after allegedly injuring a railway employee by striking him in the face at a station in Setagaya, Tokyo. Wainaina, 50, was the bronze medalist in the marathon at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and won silver in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Wainaina is suspected of assaulting a woman in her late teens and a male Tokyu Denentoshi Line employee by hitting them in the face during an altercation at Komazawa University Station in March this year, resulting in minor injuries to the man's face. According to investigators, the incident began on the train between Wainaina and the woman, and after getting off at Komazawa University Station he hit her in the face when she asked him to go to the station office with her to report it. When the male railway employee responded to the situation Wainaina reportedly hit him too. In response to questioning Wainaina is said to have answered,

Kanto Regionals Day Two Highlights

Day two of the 103rd Kanto Regionals meet took place Friday at Tokyo's National Stadium and other facilities. The 1500 m was the only mid or long-distance final on the program, and in the D1 women's final 4th-yr Yuiri Ogata (Nittai Univ.) scored a dominant win with a 4:19.08 PB that put her 2 1/2 seconds up on 2nd-placer Yui Yoshii (Daito Bunka Univ.). 4th-yr Hiroto Takamura (Nittai Univ.) won the D1 men's title in 3:45.65, with 2nd-yr Ryoto Aoki (Rikkyo Univ.) taking the top spot in a strategic D2 men's final in 3:52.93. D2 men also had a round of 5000 m qualifiers on the program. Kenyans took the top four spots in Heat 1 led by newcomer Brian Kiptoo (Reitaku Univ.) in 13:50.47, with Hakone Ekiden runner-up Komazawa University 4th-yr Kota Nakaya outrunning Hakone champ Aoyama Gakuin University 1st-yr Sota Orita for 1st in the slower Heat 2, 14:04.47 to 14:04.95. The final happens Sunday alongside the D1 men's and women's races. In other noteworthy per

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