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World Championships Marathoner Maeda Named Police Chief for A Day

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/e-japan/saga/news/20130925-OYT8T01531.htm

translated by Brett Larner

 On September 25th the Shiroishi police department appointed 2013 Moscow World Championships marathoner Kazuhiro Maeda (32, Team Kyudenko) and former National Sports Festival 5000 m champion Tomoka Inadomi (27), both natives of Shiroishi, honorary police chiefs for the day.  The nominations came as part of a fall road safety campaign across Saga prefecture.  Receiving the letter of appointment from police chief Kazuhiro Shinohara, Maeda greeted the assembled crowd saying, "Let's all work together to raise awareness and eliminate accidents from our streets."  Inadomi added, "I hope that everyone will carry a personal sense of the importance of road safety."

After the ceremony Maeda, who is suffering from a leg injury, rode in a loudspeaker car promoting road safety to local residents.  Wearing a tasuki emblazoned with a road safety slogan, Inadomi ran 2 km from police hea…
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National Corporate Half Marathon Championships Entry Lists

by Brett Larner

The organizers of the Mar. 17 National Corporate Half Marathon and 10 km Championships, Japan's last major road race before track season, released its 2013 entry lists on Mar. 5.  With no World Half Marathon Championships this year there are no national team places on the line, but the fields are deep nevertheless.

Having struggled in recent years, 2008 Kenyan national XC champion Gideon Ngatuny (Team Nissin Shokuhin) heads the men's list along with last year's runner-up Jacob Wanjuki (Team Aichi Seiko), 2010 World Half Marathon 9th-place Tomoya Onishi (Team Asahi Kasei), Micah Njeru (Team Toyota Boshoku) and 2012 Sendai International Half Marathon winner Johana Maina (Team Fujitsu).  Besides Onishi eight other Japanese men with sub-62 bests are close behind, led by Yuta Igarashi (Team JR Higashi Nihon) and Daisuke Matsufuji (Team Kanebo).  2012 national 5000 m champion Kazuya Deguchi (Team Asahi Kasei) will be looking to join the sub-62 ranks along with t…
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Akaba, Chepyego Top Sanyo Road Race Field of 364

http://www.sanyo.oni.co.jp/news_s/news/d/2012120123222333/

translated and edited by Brett Larner

The organizers of the 31st Sanyo Ladies Road Race in Okayama have finalized the elite field for the Dec. 23 race.  130 women will line up in the Yuko Arimori Cup Half Marathon division, with 234 in the Kinue Hitomi Cup 10 km division, making for a combined field of 364 that almost ties last year's record number of entries, 366.

2011 Daegu World Championships marathon 5th-place finisher Yukiko Akaba (Team Hokuren) and other world-class competitors will grace the streets of Okayama with their running.  Having set the half marathon course record of 1:09:16 last year, it looks as though Akaba will again be the one dictating the terms of competition.  2011 Tokyo Marathon winner Noriko Higuchi (Team Wacoal) should be her major rival.  Local Team Tenmaya will supply Beijing Olympics marathoner Yurika Nakamura, team captain Yuka Izumi and first-year pro Nanami Matsuura.  Also on the entry list …
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Takabayashi 1500 m PB in Belgium

2011 Flanders Cup Gentse Feesten Meeting
Gent, Belgium, 7/30/11 click here for complete results Men's 5000 m 1. Brian Olinger (U.S.A.) - 13:32.74 2. Arne Gabius (Germany) - 13:35.90 3. Philipp Bandi (Switzerland) - 13:36.89 4. Tsuyoshi Ugachi (Team Konica Minolta) - 13:38.92 5. Stephen Furst (U.S.A.) - 13:40.75 6. Naoki Okamoto (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 13:41.56 7. Chihiro Miyawaki (Team Toyota) - 13:45.97 8. Takuya Ishikawa (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 13:46.30 9. Kazuya Deguchi (Team Asahi Kasei) - 13:59.14 10. Mohamed Mohamed Ali (Netherlands) - 14:04.44
Women's 3000 m SC 1. Korene Hinds (Jamaica) - 9:38.07 2. Stephanie Garcia (U.S.A.) - 9:41.12 3. Lindsay Allen (U.S.A.) - 9:47.03 ----- 7. Minori Hayakari (Kyoto Koka AC) - 9:57.51
Men's 1500 m Heat 1 1. Andrew Bumbalough (U.S.A.) - 3:40.35 2. Ciaran O'Lionaird (Ireland) - 3:41.34 3. Brandon Bethke (U.S.A.) - 3:41.60 ----- 10. Yasuhiro Tago (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 3:44.16
Men's 1500 m Heat 2 1. Yusuke Takabayashi (Team Toyota) - 3:43.72 - P…
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National Corporate Half Marathon and Road 10 km Championships Entry Lists Released

by Brett Larner
The national corporate federation has released the entry lists for this year's National Corporate Half Marathon Championships, to be held Mar. 20 in Yamaguchi, this year with the addition of a women's road 10 km.
Notable names include men's half marathon national record holder Atsushi Sato (Team Chugoku Denryoku) who has been out of competition since finishing 3rd at the 2010 Tokyo Marathon, 2011 World Championships team member Yukihiro Kitaoka (Team NTN), 2010 Nagoya Half Marathon winner Jacob Wanjuki (Kenya/Team Aichi Seiko), 2010 Marugame Half Marathon winner Daniel Gitau (Kenya/Team Fujitsu), 2011 Tamana Half Marathon winner Dishon Karukuwa (Kenya/Team Aisan Kogyo), former university star Masato Kihara (Team Kanebo), sub-28 track ace Ryuji Ono (Team Asahi Kasei), and, continuing his comeback from the injuries that knocked him out of the 2008 Beijing Olympics marathon, Satoshi Osaki (Team NTT Nishi Nihon).
The women's half marathon features the top two …
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Mottram, Kiprop, Konovalova, Curtis, Moran, Sato, Nishihara Headline International Chiba Ekiden

by Brett Larner

On Nov. 12 the organizers of the 2010 International Chiba Ekiden announced the entry lists for this year's edition, scheduled as always for Nov. 23. The last of the great international ekidens, Chiba has in recent years scaled down to an interesting format of mixed-gender teams, with top men and women from 12 teams worldwide alternating stages on a six-leg, 42.195 course.

Notable names on the list this year include:

Bobby Curtis (U.S.A.) - 2008 NCAA 5000 m champion
Atsushi Fujita (Chiba Pref.) - former marathon nat'l record holder
Wilson Kiprop (Kenya) - 2010 African 10000 m champion
Yuriko Kobayashi (Japan) - 1500 m nat'l record holder
Maria Konovalova (Russia) - 3rd, 2010 Chicago Marathon
Hiroki Mitsuoka (Japan Univ.) - 2010 nat'l univ 5000 m champion
Ed Moran (U.S.A.) - 2010 U.S.A. road 10 km champion
Craig Mottram (Australia) - 2005 WC 5000 m bronze medalist
Kasumi Nishihara (Japan Univ.) - 2010 nat'l univ 5000 m champion
Yuki Sato (Japan) - Japanese men…
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Daihatsu Over Wacoal at First West Japan Corporate Women's Ekiden

by Brett Larner

Team Daihatsu outran Team Wacoal for the regional title at the first West Japan Jitsugyodan Women's Ekiden Oct. 24 in Munakata, Kyushu. A combination of three previous regional qualifiers for December's National Jitsugyodan Women's Ekiden Championships, West Japan was run on the same course as the former Kyushu Jitsugyodan Women's Ekiden. With the influx of teams from two other regions, stage records fell on four of the six stages in the 42.195 km race.

Team Wacoal dominated the early parts of the race, leading for the first four stages thanks to stage record performances by First Stage runner Tomoka Inadomi and Third Stage runner Kayoko Fukushi. At the start of the 10.9 km Fifth Stage, the ekiden's longest, Wacoal was up by 37 seconds over Team Sysmex and 1:02 over Team Daihatsu. Fresh from the World Half Marathon, Daihatsu's Ryoko Kizaki then turned in a big run, taking the stage best in 35:50, well over a minute faster than the next-fastest run…
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National Sports Festival Day One - Results

2010 National Sports Festival - Top Results
Chiba Sogo Sports Center Stadium, Oct. 1
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Women's 5000 m
1. Tomoka Inadomi (Team Wacoal) - 15:30.34
2. Risa Takenaka (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 15:31.12
3. Noriko Matsuoka (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 15:34.77
4. Yoshimi Ozaki (Team Daiichi Seimei) - 15:35.95
5. Hikari Yoshimoto (Bukkyo Univ.) - 15:37.72
6. Ayuko Suzuki (Meijo Univ.) - 15:37.83
7. Shoko Mori (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 15:44.62
8. Rei Ohara (Team Tenmaya) - 15:45.97
9. Saori Yamashita (Team Hokuren) - 15:52.37
10. Hiroko Shoi (Team Nihon ChemiCon) - 15:56.93

Junior Men's 5000 m - Heat 1
1. Kazuto Nishiike (Suma Gakuen H.S.) - 14:06.46
2. Kenta Murayama (Meisei H.S.) - 14:07.03
3. Shogo Nakamura (Ueno Kogyo H.S.) - 14:07.34

Junior Men's 5000 m - Heat 2
1. Titus Waroru (Kenya/Chinzei H.S.) - 13:58.49
2. Takashi Ichida (Kagoshima Jitsugyo H.S.) - 14:08.23
3. Genki Yagisawa (Nasu Takuyo H.S.) - 14:21.14
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National Corporate Championships 5000 m and 3000 m Final Results

2010 National Jitsugyodan T&F Championships - Top Results
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Men's 5000 m - Final
1. Jonathan Ndiku (Kenya/Team Hitachi Cable) - 13:45.69
2. Yusuke Takabayashi (Team Toyota) - 13:48.26
3. Josephat Ndambiri (Kenya/Team Komori Corp.) - 13:49.06
4. Micah Njeru (Kenya/Team Toyota Boshoku) - 13:51.13
5. Hideyuki Anzai (Team Nissin Shokuhin) - 13:52.14
6. Tomoyuki Morita (Team Kanebo) 13:52.48
7. Kenta Murotsuka (SDF Academy) - 13:53.13
8. Takaya Iwasaki (Team Shikoku Denryoku) - 13:53.68
9. Naoki Okamoto (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 13:56.84
10. Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Team Konica Minolta) - 13:57.61

Women's 5000 m - Final
1. Ann Karindi (Kenya/Team Toyota Jidoshoki) - 15:25.40
2. Doricah Obare (Kenya/Team Hitachi) - 15:27.89
3. Tomoka Inadomi (Team Wacoal) - 15:29.56
4. Yuko Shimizu (Team Sekisui Giken) - 15:29.58
5. Kaori Urata (Team Tenmaya) - 15:31.47
6. Risa Shigetomo (Team Tenmaya) - 15:45.80
7. Christine Muyanga (Kenya/Team Panasonic) - 15:46.61
8. Shoko Mori (Team Otsuk…
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Ndambiri 5000 m World Leader at Shizuoka International Meet

by Brett Larner

Alongside sprinter Chisato Fukushima's new women's 200 m national record at the May 3 Shizuoka International Track and Field Meet, Josephat Ndambiri (Kenya/Team Komori Corp.) was in a familiar position in the men's 5000 m, one step ahead of countryman Martin Mathathi (Kenya/Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) with a meet record and world-leading 13:09.19 win. Mathathi, just six days from his half-marathon debut at Sunday's Sendai International Half Marathon, was also under the old meet record as he finished 2nd in 13:10.94. 3rd placer Jonathan Ndiku (Kenya/Team Hitachi Cable) set the 3rd-fastest time so far this year, 13:19.84, while 4th place John Thuo set a slim PB of 13:21.02. 5000 m Japanese national champion Yuichiro Ueno (Team S&B) had a surprise win over Saku Chosei high school teammate Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin) with the fastest time this year by a Japanese man, 13:24.75. The next five Japanese after Sato all set PBs, among them Tokai University ace A…
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Ono and Obare Win in Hokuren Distance Challenge (updated)

http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=spo_30&k=2009071100344

translated by Brett Larner

At the fourth meet in the Hokuren Distance Challenge series, the July 11 Kushiro meet, Athens Olympian Ryuji Ono (Team Asahi Kasei) took the men's 10000 m in 28:27.20. Satoshi Irifune (Team Kanebo), who will run the marathon at August's World Championships in Berlin, was 9th in 28:38.44.

Kenyan Doricah Obare (Team Hitachi) won the women's 3000 m in 9:03.32, with Berlin World Championships 5000 m runner Yurika Nakamura (Team Tenmaya) 3rd in 9:11.32.

2009 Hokuren Distance Challenge Kushiro Meet - Top Finishers
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Men's 10000 m A-heat
1. Ryuji Ono (Team Asahi Kasei) - 28:27.20
2. Ryo Yamamoto (Team Sagawa Express) - 28:29.67
3. Takuya Noguchi (Nittai Univ.) - 28:30.06
4. Tsuyoshi Makabe (Team Kanebo) - 28:31.16
5. Michael Gichinji (Aomori Yamada H.S.) - 28:32.40
6. Daisuke Matsufuji (Team Kanebo) - 28:33.12
7. Kazuya Deguchi (Nittai Univ.) - 28:34.02
8. Shota Yamaguch…
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Takezawa no Match for Ngatuny - Hokuren Distance Challenge Shibetsu Meet Results

by Brett Larner

Tough conditions kept times slow overall at the June 14 Shibetsu meet, the third in the six-part Hokuren Distance Challenge series in Hokkaido. Five of Japan's most promising distance runners ran in the meet, but even taking the slow times into account all fell short.

Of the five, Kensuke Takezawa (Team S&B) had the best showing. A World Championships and Beijing Olympics track runner while in university with a 5000 m PB of 13:19.00, Takezawa ran the 5000 m in Shibetsu, his debut at the distance since turning pro in April, in the hopes of clearing the Berlin World Championships B-standard ahead of this month's National Track and Field Championships. Winner Gideon Ngatuny (Team Nissin Shokuhin) was very nearly the only athlete in the meet to run an outright creditable time, taking the 5000 m in 13:16.78, but while Takezawa fell short of the 13:29.00 mark he needed his time of 13:38.25 was good enough for 2nd and showed that he is on his way to full recovery fr…
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Fukuoka International Cross Country Meet - Results

by Brett Larner

The Mar. 7 Fukuoka International Cross Country Meet lived up to its name as foreign runners took three of the day's four main races. Beijing Olympic marathoners Yurika Nakamura (Team Tenmaya) and Atsushi Sato (Team Chugoku Denryoku) had mixed results as they and others ran in the last selection race for this year's World Cross Country Championships team on a warm and windy day.

Senior Men's 10 km
The senior men's race featured many of Japan's top runners, including Atsushi Sato in training for next month's London Marathon, Takayuki Matsumiya (Team Konica Minolta) fresh from training in Kenya in preparation for an attempt on the 10000 m national record later this spring, and Yu Mitsuya (Team Toyota Kyushu) getting ready for his final World Championships as a track runner before moving to the marathon next year.

Middle distance runner Yasuhiro Tago (Team Chugoku Denryoku) took the field out, but before the end of the 1st km the race's lone Kenyan,…
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Asian Cross Country Championships - Results

by Brett Larner

Japanese teams performed strongly at the 10th Asian Cross Country Championships in Bahrain on Mar. 1, bringing home three individual medals and team medals in three of the four team categories. Running against teams of African mercenaries masquerading as national teams belonging to Qatar and Bahrain, the Japanese senior women's team brought home the gold medal led by Aya Nagata's individual bronze medal performance, with Tomoka Inadomi and Risa Shigetomo rounding out the scoring positions in 4th and 5th.

The junior men's scorers placed identically, Shota Hattori earning a bronze medal and his teammates Yuki Oshikawa and Kyohei Nishi coming 4th and 5th, but the team received only the silver medal as they were beaten by one point by a Bahraini team made up of two Kenyans and one Ethiopian.

The junior women's team also won silver, again with a bronze medal run from Aki Odagiri followed by team scoring 4th and 5th placings by Rei Ohara and Sairi Maeda. Like th…
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