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Stanford Invitational
Palo Alto, U.S.A., 3/30/18
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Women's 10000 m Invitational
1. Gwen Jorgensen (Bowerman TC) - 31:55.68
2. Carrie Dimoff (Bowerman TC) - 31:57.85
3. Karissa Schweizer (Missouri) - 32:00.55
4. Alice Wright (New Mexico) - 32:15.73
5. Sharon Lokedi (Kansas) - 32:21.19
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18. Misaki Hayashida (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 33:46.16

Men's 5000 m Invitational
1. Zach Long (Tennessee) - 13:39.22
2. Luc Bruchet (Canada) - 13:39.62
3. Tyler Day (Northern Arizona) - 13:40.22
4. Cole Rockhold (Colorado St.) - 13:40.29
5. George Parsons (Adidas) - 13:40.37
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8. Shota Onizuka (Tokai Univ.) - 13:43.54
11. Hayato Seki (Tokai Univ.) - 13:51.45

Men's 3000 m SC Invitational
1. Yusuke Uchikoshi (Boise State) - 8:38.32
2. Matt Owens (BYU) - 8:39.41
3. Daniel Carney (BYU) - 8:42.17
4. Jamaine Coleman (Eastern Kentucky) - 8:42.21
5. Jacob Heslington (BYU) - 8:43.41
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11. Ryohei Sakaguchi (Tokai Univ.) - 9:01.34

Men's 1500 m Invitational
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Dodging a bullet as an approaching typhoon that spelled potential cancellation shifted to the east, the Princess Ekiden, the qualifying race for second-tier teams for next month's National Corporate Women's Ekiden Championships, went off Sunday afternoon in Fukuoka. The top 14 of the 29 teams in the field would qualify to join the seeded first-tier teams at Nationals in the third year of the event's current format shift from a series of regional qualifiers.

12th in 2015 and 4th last year, Panasonic took over the lead on the 3.6 km Second Stage and tried to run away with it, but behind them Toyota Jidoshokki grew closer and closer after a weak opening stage. With just one second separating them at the final exchange it was going to be close, but although Panasonic anchor Sakiko Naito was strong, covering the 6.695 km Sixth Stage in 21:43, Toyota Jidoshokki's Misaki Hayashida went one better, dropping a course record 21:35 to run Naito down and put Toyota Jidoshokki acr…

by Brett Larner

Takuji Morimoto (Team Chugoku Denryoku) won a close Himejijo 10-Miler on Feb. 11, nearly clipped at the line by Daisuke Kumon (Kanagawa Univ.) after frontrunning the entire race.  The relatively slow 47:58 winning time meant a large pack was together behind Morimoto until late in the game, when only Kumon, Yuya Taguchi (Team Toyota Boshoku), 2011 Himejijo winner Takahiro Aso (Team Aisan Kogyo) and Hiroaki Inoue (Team Toenec) were able to remain in pursuit.  2009 winner Satoru Kitamura (Team Nissin Shokuhin) led the chase pack to take 6th, with 2006 and 2012 winner Kazuyoshi Tokumoto (Team Monteroza) an apparent DNS.

Local Misaki Hayashida (Himeji Shogyo H.S.) had a similarly close victory in the women's 5 km, outrunning a pack of four from 2012 National High School Ekiden champion Ritsumeikan Uji H.S. to win by 1 second in 16:24.  Yuki Fujiwara was Ritsumeikan Uji's top finisher a stride behind Hayashida.

53rd Himejijo 10-Mile Road Race
Himeji, Hyogo, 2/11/13
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