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A group of Japanese university runners competed in the Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km road race in the Netherlands on Nov. 17. Every year a group of students is selected to compete based on their results at the National University Half Marathon and National University Track and Field Championships 10000 m. Having won both the Izumo Ekiden and National University Ekiden this season, Koku Gakuin University was out in force in the men's race too. Rui Aoki was part of a 5-way sprint finish for 2nd behind Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo 's 40:42 world best, taking 4th in 43:23, the best-ever Japanese men's performance at the race. Aoki won this year's National University Half Marathon in 1:02:06. He was 3rd on the First Stage at October's Izumo Ekiden and 7th on the Second Stage at the National University Ekiden, playing a key role in KGU's wins at both. His teammate Hikaru Tsujihara was 10th in 43:55, having handled the Third Stage at both Izumo and Nationals. Hinata Shirakawa ...

It's yet another busy mid-ekiden season weekend, but there's no question what its biggest race is. In a country packed with all of the world's deepest half marathons the Ageo City Half Marathon is the deepest of them all, universities targeting the legendary Hakone Ekiden transforming what would otherwise be an ordinary country town road race into something really special as each team's runner try to convince their coaches they belong on the Hakone A-squad. Since 2011 the New York Road Runners have thrown fuel on the fire by inviting the top two Japanese collegiate finishers to March's United Airlines NYC Half in a program conceived and coordinated by JRN. The first runner to earn an invite was Toyo University second-year Yuta Shitara , who went over and ran what was then the fastest time ever by a Japanese man on U.S. soil, 1:01:48, in his international road racing debut. Now the half marathon national record holder and a corporate leaguer for the Honda team, ...

https://www.independent.co.ug/ugandas-cheptegei-runs-2nd-fastest-15km-race/ Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km Nijmegen, Netherlands, 11/19/17 click here for complete results Men 1. Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) - 41:16 2. Amdework Walelegn (Ethiopia) - 42:40 3. Noah Kipkemboi (Kenya) - 42:43 4. Yenew Alamirew (Ethiopia) - 43:33 5. Mekonnen Gebremedhin (Ethiopia) - 43:35 6. Ryohei Sakaguchi (Japan/Tokai Univ.) - 43:36 ----- 12. Tomoki Ota (Japan/Waseda Univ.) - 44:48 16. Junnosuke Matsuo (Japan/Tokai Univ.) - 45:30 33. Ryoji Tatezawa (Japan/Tokai Univ.) - 48:00 Women 1. Birke Debele (Ethiopia) - 48:52 2. Mercyline Chelangat (Uganda) - 48:54 3. Evaline Chirchir (Kenya) - 48:54 4. Sofia Assefa (Ethiopia) - 48:56 5. Rose Chelimo (Bahrain) - 49:08 ----- 7. Rika Kaseda (Japan/Meijo Univ.) - 50:24 9. Rino Goshima (Japan/Chuo Univ.) - 52:13 12. Kanade Furuya (Japan/Matsuyama Univ.) - 53:46 14. Naruho Sato (Japan/Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 54:45 61. Yuki Munehisa (Japan/Tokyo Nogyo Uni...

https://www.kawowo.com/2016/11/20/joshua-cheptegei-wins-netherlands-race/ Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km Road Race Netherlands, 11/20/16 click here for complete results Women 1. Susan Krumins (Netherlands) - 49:30 2. Jip Vastenburg (Netherlands) - 50:42 3. Kanade Furuya (Japan) - 52:10 4. Yomogi Akasaka (Japan) - 52:23 5. Honoka Tanaike (Japan) - 52:41 ----- 20. Misaki Ogata (Japan) - 57:03 Men 1. Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) - 42:08 2. Abrar Osman (Eritrea) - 43:04 3. Hiskel Tewelde (Eritrea) - 43:06 4. Geoffrey Ronoh (Kenya) - 43:28 5. Abdallah Kibet Mande (Uganda) - 43:35 ----- 8. Kengo Suzuki (Japan) - 44:18 11. Homare Morita (Japan) - 45:24 14. Yuki Nakamura (Japan) - 46:10 15. Akira Tomiyasu (Japan) - 46:14 20. Shiki Shinsako (Japan) - 47:38

by Brett Larner It's one of the busiest weekends of the year across Japan, with three major road races, regional championship corporate ekiden action, two big track meets and even some overseas collegiates. The biggest race on the schedule is Sunday's Ageo City Half Marathon in Ageo, Saitama, a local race used by coaches of university teams bound for Japan's most prestigious sporting event, January's Hakone Ekiden, to pare down their rosters to the final candidates for their Hakone lineups.  As a result Ageo regularly features jaw-dropping numbers, with close to 200 going under 1:06 and 4~500 under 1:10.  In a program put together by JRN, for the last three years the NYC Half Marathon has invited the top two Japanese collegiates in Ageo to its race in March, and in 2013 the invite had a measurable impact.  In its first 25 years Ageo saw 36 people break 1:03.  At last year's 26th running 18 more runners, all Japanese collegiates, broke 1:03. Defending champ...

30th Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km Road Race Nijmegen, Netherlands, 11/17/13 click here for complete results Women 1. Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) - 48:43 2. Berhane Adere (Ethiopia) - 50:59 3. Ayame Takagi (Japan/Meijo Univ.) - 51:08 4. Honoka Yuzawa (Japan/Meijo Univ.) - 51:27 5. Miranda Boonstra (Netherlands) - 51:41 6. Kim Dillen (Netherlands) - 51:53 7. Mio Muraoka (Japan/Meijo Univ.) - 51:56 8. Yurina Yokoyama (Japan/Meijo Univ.) - 52:38 Men 1. Leonard Komon (Kenya) - 42:15 2. Nicholas Kipkemboi (Kenya) - 42:32 3. Daniel Chaves da Silva (Brazil) - 43:49 4. Jesper van der Wielen (Netherlands) - 44:33 5. Tom Wiggers (Netherlands) - 44:42 © 2013 Brett Larner all rights reserved

2012 Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km Nijmegen, Netherlands, 11/18/12 click here for complete results Women 1. Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) - 47:08 2. Tiki Gelana (Ethiopia) - 48:09 3. Beatrice Mutai (Kenya) - 48:52 4. Lucy Macharia (Kenya) - 49:00 5. Gelete Burka (Ethiopia) - 49:26 6. Aki Odagiri (Japan) - 50:57 7. Merel de Knegt (Netherlands) - 51:43 8. Eriko Kushima (Japan) - 51:49 9. Hikari Yasuhara (Japan) - 52:14 10. Miranda Boonstra (Netherlands) - 52:23 11. Mei Matsuyama (Japan) - 52:59 ----- 19. Ai Furukubo (Japan) - 55:16 Men 1. Nicholas Kipkemboi (Kenya) - 42:01 2. Leonard Komon (Kenya) - 42:18 3. Nguse Amlosom (Ethiopia) - 42:28 4. Kennedy Kimutai (Kenya) - 42:29 5. Abera Kuma (Ethiopia)

http://sankei.jp.msn.com/sports/news/111118/oth11111821450012-n1.htm translated by Brett Larner Mizuki Noguchi at the Zevenheuvelenloop 2011 press conference,  courtesy of  Losse Veter . At a Nov. 18 press conference in Nijmegen, the Netherlands ahead of Sunday's 7 Hills Loop 15 km road race , Athens Olympics women's marathon gold medalist and marathon national record holder Mizuki Noguchi  (Team Sysmex) told reporters, "This race is a step up toward January's Osaka International Women's Marathon.  I hope to run like the good old me is back." The race is the second of her comeback.  Recapturing the feeling of competition is one of her central themes.  At last month's West Japan Corporate Women's Ekiden her 5 km split was faster than her 5000 m PB.  After showing that her speed is still as good as back in her glory days, she slowed in the second half of the stage.  At 7 Hills, she said, "I want to hold back in the first half and then see h...

http://www.sannichi.co.jp/kyodo/news2.php?genre=Sports&newsitemid=2011110101000535 translated and edited by Brett Larner Athens Olympics women's marathon gold medalist and national record holder Mizuki Noguchi  (Team Sysmex) left Nov. 1 from Osaka International Airport for an altitude training camp in Boulder, Colorado.  The goal of Noguchi's training camp is to strengthen her condition ahead of January's Osaka International Women's Marathon which she will run to earn a place on the London Olympic team.  "I'm excited to get away and focus," she said of her mental state before leaving Osaka.  "I want to build up a good distance base while I'm there." Noguchi made a successful return to racing at the West Japan Jitsugyodan Women's Ekiden late last month, ten months after her latest round of injuries.  She plans to run a race in Holland this month and to return to Japan before the end of the year.* * Translator's note: Source...

2010 Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km Nijmegen, Netherlands, 11/21/10 Women click here for complete women's results 1. Genet Getaneh (Ethiopia) - 47:53 2. Florence Kiplagat (Kenya) - 48:07 3. Sayo Nomura (Meijo Univ.) - 49:43 4. Aki Odagiri (Meijo Univ.) - 51:37 5. Benita Willis (Australia) - 51:51 Men click here for complete men's results 1. Leonard Patrick Komon (Kenya) - 41:13 - WR 2. Abera Kuma (Ethiopia) - 42:01 3. Ayele Abshiro (Ethiopia) - 42:01 4. Abraham Kiplimo (Uganda) - 43:03 5. Berhanu Delale (Ethiopia) - 43:08 ----- 14. Kazuya Watanabe (Team Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) - 45:31