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Rina Nabeshima (Japan Post) finished 9th in the Prefontaine Classic women's 5000 m in her Diamond League debut. Her time of 15:10.91 moved her up to all-time Japanese #9.

Congrats to Japan's reigning 5000m champ Rina Nabeshima on PB'ing (15:10.91) at @preclassic today in her first-ever @Diamond_League race. Glad to see Rina & Coach Masa Takahashi take the step up to this next part of her career. pic.twitter.com/bcJ6tp9PiR — Boulder Wave (@BoulderWave) May 27, 2018

by Brett Larner

Saitama-based William Malel (Team Honda) gave defending Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah (Great Britain) a run for it in Saturday's Prefontaine Classic men's 10000 m, kicking over the last 250 or so meters before Farah caught him in the final 50 m.  Malel finished less than a second behind Farah in 26:54.66, a new PB that, given the injured status of Bedan Karoki (Team DeNA), surely puts Malel into consideration for the Rio team.  Interestingly enough, Ibrahim Jeilan (Ethiopia), who won the 2011 Daegu World Championships 10000 m over Farah with a mighty kick while running for the Honda team, was close behind in a new PB of 26:58.75 for 5th.

Japan-based Kenyans Leonard Barsoton (Team Nissin Shokuhin) and James Mwangi (Team NTN) took 12th and 13th, both in the 27:30 range.  Japan's Suguru Osako (Nike Oregon Project) wasn't up to the night's task, losing touch with the leaders after the first 1000 m and dropping out early in the second half.  One of 11 J…

Eugene, U.S.A., 5/29/15
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1. Mo Farah (Great Britain) - 26:50.97
2. Paul Tanui (Kenya/Team Kyudenko) - 26:51.96
3. Geoffrey Kamworor (Kenya) - 26:52.65 - PB
4. Cam Levins (Canada) - 27:07.51 - NR
5. Geoffrey Kirui (Kenya) - 27:17.91
6. Emmanuel Bett (Kenya) - 27:22.34
7. El Hassan El Abbassi (Bahrain) - 27:25.02 - PB
8. Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) - 27:27.57 - PB
9. Diego Estrada (U.S.A.) - 27:30.53 - PB
10. Titus Mbishei (Kenya) - 27:31.48
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16. Suguru Osako (Japan/Nike Oregon Project) - 27:45.24

by Brett Larner

Japan-based Kenyans Paul Tanui (Team Kyudenko) and Bedan Karoki (DeNA RC) ran big at the U.S.' Prefontaine Classic 10000 m, both setting new sub-27 PBs for 2nd and 3rd behind winner Galen Rupp's new 26:44.36 American record.  Tanui, the Moscow World Championships 10000 m bronze medalist and fastest in the world going into the race with a 27:16.75 two weeks ago at the Kyushu Corporate Track and Field Championships, ran next to Rupp in the front pack for the entire race, twice going to the front in the late going before Rupp got away on the last lap.  Tanui first broke 27 at Prefontaine three years ago.  Today he took just over a second off his best from that race with a 26:49.41 PB.

Karoki, who runs for the Toshihiko Seko-coached DeNA corporate team in central Tokyo and set a 1:00:02 course record at the Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon less than two weeks ago, started more conservatively in the second pack before working his way up to join the leaders.  Even in the s…