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National University Championships Day 3 Highlights


Conditions weren't great for the last day of this year's National University Track and Field Championships either, with off-and-on heavy rain in Yokohama through most of the day. But the Chuo University men's 4x400 m relay team of Hiroto Shogomori, Kota Uematsu, Shiita Hamada and Sho Tanabe still came through with a 3:03.30 meet record for the win, 0.89 up on 2nd-placer Tsukuba University. That was under Toyo University's 3:03.64 MR from last year, a mark that had also been the fastest-ever by a single university team. Only a mixed-school collegiate team has run faster than Chuo's winning time this year with a 3:03.20 back in 2005, but not by much. Ritsumeikan University took the women's 4x400 m in 3:36.78.

Other highlights:
  • #1-ranked Ami Takahashi (Tsukuba Univ.) took the women's 200 m in 23.79 (-0.5).
  • Takahashi's teammate Kurumi Sugure, likewise ranked #1 in the women's 800 m, took it by over 2 seconds in 2:05.99, with Tsukuba's Hanon Sasaki 2nd in 2:08.26.
  • Men's 800 m #1-ranked Nanaki Manno (Kansai Univ.) won it in 1:47.34.
  • Both the women's and men's 400 mH saw the #2-ranked athletes getting the win, 1st-year Rachel Gardener (Waseda Univ.) taking the women's title in 57.55 and Kyo Kikuta (Hosei Univ.) the men's in 49.07.
  • The only woman in the 3000 mSC to have gone under 10 minutes, Nozomi Kondo (Meijo Univ.) won it in 10:14.96.
  • The favorite in the heptathlon, Ayu Kariya (Nittai Univ.) won it by over 300 points in 5361.
In overall team scoring, Juntendo University took the men's national title for the 6th year in a row, scoring 107 points across events. Tsukuba University followed up last year's win with a second-straight women's title with 104.25 points. It was the Juntendo men's 34th national title in the National University Championships's 95-year history, and the 29th for the Tsukuba women.

95th National University Track and Field Championships

Day 3 Highlights
Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, 7 September 2026

1. Ami Takahashi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 23.79
2. Mayuko Maeda (Fukuoka Univ.) - 23.99
3. Risa Akizawa (Chuo Univ.) - 24.12
4. Aoi Sato (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 24.18
5. Aiha Yamagata (Fukuoka Univ.) - 24.21
6. Yuzuki Kojima (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 24.22
7. Miu Kurashige (Konan Univ.) - 24.50
8. Hazuki Yoshinaga (Chuo Univ.) - 24.97

1. Shingo Suzuki (Tokai Univ.) - 20.50
2. Shunki Takino (Toyo Univ.) - 20.63
3. Yamato Iida (Juntendo Univ.) - 20.85
4. Riku Yoshida (Juntendo Univ.) - 20.91
5. Toya Tanaka (Okayama Shoryo Univ.) - 20.95
6. Kei Wakana (Waseda Univ.) - 20.97
7. Tomoru Funaki (Daito Bunka Univ.) - 21.07
8. Hikari Abraham (Kansai Univ.) - 21.18

1. Kurumi Sugure (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2:05.99
2. Hanon Sasaki (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2:08.26
3. Miori Kida (Juntendo Univ.) - 2:08.80
4. Yuri Nishida (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 2:09.05
5. Sari Kamei (Kyoto Kyoiku Univ.) - 2:09.10
6. Yui Nagashima (Juntendo Univ.) - 2:10.67
7. Koharu Shinoda (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2:11.29
8. Riho Hirano (Kantaiheiyo Univ.) - 2:13.59

1. Nanaki Manno (Kansai Univ.) - 1:47.34
2. Togo Yoshizawa (Tokyo Univ.) - 1:47.62
3. Kotaro Mori (Tokai Gakuen Univ.) - 1:48.71
4. Atsuki Watanabe (Hosei Univ.) - 1:49.53
5. Ikumi Kunimori (Yamaguchi Univ.) - 1:49.71
6. Nobuki Watanabe (Nittai Univ.) - 1:50.77
7. Ryotaro Ichimura (Keio Univ.) - 1:50.86
8. Yuto Mizushima (Waseda Univ.) - 2:01.54

1. Rachel Gardener (Waseda Univ.) - 57.55
2. Shiori Chiba (Waseda Univ.) - 57.74
3. Aoi Noma (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 58.54
4. Mahiro Wasada (Chukyo Univ.) - 58.64
5. Saaya Natsume (Nittai Univ.) - 58.90
6. Emily Harada (Tsukuba Univ.) - 58.98
7. Aika Nakajima (Tokyo Joshi Taiiku Univ.) - 1:00.27
8. Sachi Kuzuhara (Kyoto Kyoiku Univ.) - 1:01.03

1. Kyo Kikuta (Hosei Univ.) - 49.07
2. Kiyoto Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) - 49.35
3. Shota Fuchigami (Waseda Univ.) - 49.53
4. Yu Naito (Chukyo Univ.) - 49.54
5. Yamato Sakai (Chuo Univ.) - 49.95
6. Ryosei Hashimoto (Juntendo Univ.) - 50.08
7. Kosei Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.) - 50.14
8. Kenta Kano (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 50.27

1. Nozomi Kondo (Meijo Univ.) - 10:14.96
2. Aoi Maruyama (Daito Bunka Univ.) - 10:18.42
3. Ema Michida (Tokyo Joshi Taiiku Univ.) - 10:19.09
4. Yuzuyu Sato (Nittai Univ.) - 10:20.84
5. Miu Suzuki (Tsukuba Univ.) - 10:20.87

1. Tetsu Sasaki (Waseda Univ.) - 8:44.46
2. Sota Yamasaki (Chuo Univ.) - 8:44.93
3. Kosuke Tsuji (Juntendo Univ.) - 8:45.71
4. Kenneth Kipgeno (Sapporo Gakuin Univ.) - 8:51.77
5. Reo Yasuda (Juntendo Univ.) - 8:51.77

1. Ritsumeikan University - 3:36.78
2. Fukuoka University - 3:37.03
3. Aoyama Gakuin University - 3:37.08
4. Waseda University - 3:37.40
5. Sonoda Gakuen University - 3:37.78
6. Nittai University - 3:40.67
7. Tsukuba University - 3:41.32
8. Tokyo Joshi Taiiku University - 3:44.11

1. Chuo University - 3:03.30 - MR, collegiate record
2. Tsukuba University - 3:04.19
3. Waseda University - 3:05.80
4. Nihon University - 3:06.48
5. Chukyo University - 3:06.50
6. Nittai University - 3:06.90
7. Fukuoka University - 3:07.03
8. Toyo University - 3:07.61

1. Kaisei Nakatani (Tokai Univ.) - 2.16 m
2. Joel Yuto Chukwenyere (Tsukuba Univ.) - 2.13 m
3. Kotaro Fujiwara (Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) - 2.10 m

1. Sora Murata (Tsukuba Univ.) - 4.20 m
2. Mitsuki Kobayashi (Nittai Univ.) - 4.15 m
3. Hinako Shiga (Tokyo Joshi Taiiku Univ.) - 3.80 m

1. Ririya Yamasaki (Juntendo Univ.) - 12.89 m (0.0)
2. Hono Sugano (Nittai Univ.) - 12.58 m (-0.6)
3. Koko Sano (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 12.48 m (+0.1)

1. Yohei Tomari (Kantaiheiyo Univ.) - 17.52 m
2. Hyogo Watanabe (Niigata Iryo Fukushi Univ.) - 17.45 m
3. Akito Yamada (Hosei Univ.) - 17.14 m

1. Rosa Seko (Kokushikan Univ.) - 47.46 m
2. Yaya Kuwajima (Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ.) - 46.57 m
3. Hazuki Fujita (Shikoku Univ.) - 46.35 m

1. Ayu Kariya (Nittai Univ.) - 5361
2. Sakura Maenishi (Tsukuba Univ.) - 5058
3. Arisa Sasuga (Nittai Univ.) - 5052

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