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Terui and Sakuda Speak Out After Hakone Ekiden Tenth Stage "Phantom Win"

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日刊スポーツ(1/4)裏一面から。 pic.twitter.com/na0k7P7ghq — ゆう・T (@aquamarine4320) January 4, 2017
Anchoring the Hakone Ekiden's Tenth Stage for the Kanto Region Student Alliance select team, Tokyo Kokusai University fourth-year Akito Terui scored what quickly came to be called the "Phantom Stage Win."  As a member of the Kanto Alliance team Terui's time did not count in official results, but his 1:10:58 beat the 1:11:00 time of official stage winner Naoya Sakuda of Juntendo University by two seconds.

Two years ago Terui trained with top-level Hakone schools Aoyama Gakuin University and Toyo University.  Putting the lessons he learned to work, last year he finished 13th on the Third Stage in Tokyo Kokusai's Hakone debut before running the fastest anchor time this year.  "It was a miracle," Terui said post-…