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Day 3 of the 105th Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships gets into its 2nd half Saturday. Live results here . The day's schedule: 9:45  - D1/D2 Women's Heptathlon 100 mH 10:00  - D1/D2 Women's Discus Throw Final 10:10  - D1 Women's 400 mH Heats 10:40  - D2 Men's 400 mH Heats 11:05  - D1 Men's 400 mH Heats 11:15  - D1/D2 Women's Heptathlon High Jump 11:45  - D2 Men's 800 m Heats 12:00  - D1 Men's Shot Put Final 12:10  - D1 Women's 800 m Heats 12:30  - D1 Men's Long Jump Final 12:40  - D1 Men's 800 m Heats 13:20  - D2 Men's 200 m Heats 13:40  - D1 Women's 200 m Heats 13:45  - D1/D2 Women's Heptathlon Shot Put 14:05  - D1 Men's 200 m Heats 15:00  - D2/D3 Men's High Jump Final 15:00  - D2/D3 Men's Hammer Throw Final 15:45  - D2 Men's 3000 mSC Heats 15:55  - D1/D2 Women's Pole Vault Final 16:25  - D1 Men's 3000 mSC Heats 17:30  - D1 Women's Javelin Throw Final 18:25  ...

Day 2 of the 105th Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships gets moving at 9:00 a.m Friday local time. Live results here . Day 2 schedule: 9:00  - D2/D3 Men's Decathlon 110 mH 9:15  - D1 Men's Decathlon 110 mH 9:35 - D2 Men's 110 mH Semi-finals 9:45  - D1 Men's 110 mH Semi-finals 10:05  - D1 Women's 100 mH Semi-finals 10:15  - D1/D2/D3 Men's Decathlon Discus Throw 10:20  - D2/D3 Men's Shot Put Final 10:25  - D2 Men's 100 m Semi-finals 10:35  - D1 Women's 100 m Semi-finals 10:35  - D2/D3 Men's Long Jump Final 10:45  - D1 Men's 100 m Semi-finals 11:30  - D2 Men's 1500 m Final 11:45  - D1 Women's 1500 m Final 12:00  - D1 Men's 1500 m Final 12:50  - D2/D3 Men's Javelin Throw Final 13:30  - D1/D2/D3 Men's Decathlon Pole Vault 13:30  - D3 Men's 110 mH Final 14:15  - D3 Men's 100 m Final 14:50  - D1/D2 Women's Hammer Throw Final 15:00  - D2 Men's 400 m Final 15:10  - D1 Women's 400 ...

Japan's best collegiate meet, the 105th Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships kick off today in Tochigi. Live results here . Day 1 schedule: 8:46  - D2 Men's Decathlon 100 m 9:14  - D3 Men's Decathlon 100 m 9:15  - D1 Men's Decathlon 100 m 9:35  - D2/D3 Men's 400 m Heats 9:55  - D1/D2 Women's High Jump Final 10:05  - D1 Women's 400 m Heats 10:10  - D1/D2/D3 Men's Decathlon Long Jump 10:20  - D1 Men's 400 m Heats 10:50  - D2/D3 Men's Discus Throw Final 11:10  - D1/D2 Women's 100 mH Heats 11:40  - D2 Men's 110 mH Heats 11:45  - D1 Men's 110 mH Heats 12:35  - D1 Men's 100 m Heats 13:00  - D1/D2 Women's 100 m Heats 13:05  - D1 Men's 100 m Heats 13:25  - D1 Men's Discus Throw Final 13:30  - D1 Men's Triple Jump Final 13:30  - D1/D2/D3 Men's Decathlon Shot Put 14:00  - D1/D2 Men's 400 m Semi-final 14:15  - D1 Women's 400 m Semi-Final 14:50  - D2/D3 Men's 1500 m Heats 15:15 ...

The 105th Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships will be held May 21-24 in Tochigi's Kanseki Stadium. Featuring World Championships national team members and Hakone Ekiden stars, it is the first time the meet is being held in Tochigi prefecture. The Kanto Regionals meet is open to member universities of the KGRR , with individual performances scoring points that determine the overall champion university program. The meet's history is even longer than that of the KGRR's flagship event, the Hakone Ekiden. All 22 events on the meet program except the men's half marathon, which was held separately on April 5 as part of the Yaizu Minato Half Marathon , will be held at Kanseki Stadium and the neighboring multipurpose field for throwing events. The entry list published on May 12 features Tokyo World Championships relay team member Arie Aoki (Nittai Univ.) in the 400 m. The men's 5000 m includes both Hakone Ekiden uphill Fifth Stage star Shinsaku Kudo (Was...

Hakone Ekiden organizers KGRR announced May 18 that the Yosenkai qualifying race for next year's 103rd Hakone Ekiden will be held Oct. 17 on its usual 21.0975 km half marathon course starting at the Tachikawa Air SDF Base in western Tokyo and finishing next door at Showa Kinen Park. The top 10 teams at the 102nd Hakone Ekiden this past January including winner Aoyama Gakuin University auto-qualified for the 103rd Hakone. All other schools in the Kanto Region must run the Yosenkai to qualify, fielding up to 12 athletes with their first 10 finishers scored on aggregate time. The 10 fastest teams will go on to the main event next January. The field this time is expected to include Toyo University , which finished 14th at the 102nd Hakone to break a 20-year+ streak of top 10 finishes, 15th-place Nittai University which will be looking to make Hakone for the 79th year in a row, and the debuting Shibaura Kogyo University . It's an exciting mix of traditional powerhouses and up-and...

It was a pale shadow of the results at the Keqiao Diamond League meet a day earlier, where Rachid Muratake was the only Japanese athlete in action at 3rd in 13.18 (+0.1) in the men's 110 mH, but the men's 3000 m at Sunday's Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo turned out to be the race of the meet. Collegiate 5000 m, 10000 m and half marathon record holder Richard Etir (Tokyo Kokusai Univ.) did pacing duty through 2000 m in 2:33 and 5:07, almost dead-even with Suguru Osako 's 2014-era NR of 7:40.09. When Etir stepped off Yu Shibata (Josai Univ.) stepped up as the surprise leader, pushing hard to keep the NR in range and dropping everyone except corporate leaguers Ryuto Igawa (Asahi Kasei) and Nagiya Mori (Honda). Both had the wheels to run Shibata down over the last 200 m, and Mori had the honor of becoming the first Japanese man under 7:40, winning in a new NR of 7:38.98. Igawa and Shibata both got there too, Igawa 2nd in 7:39.36 and Shibata 3rd in 7:39.51, the fast...

At around 10:00 a.m. on May 17, the city of Kashiwazaki received multiple reports of a bear on the roads used as the course for the Kashiwazaki Shiokaze Marathon being held at the time. Determining that it would be dangerous to continue the race, city officials stopped the event. There were no injuries, and the bear's size remains unknown. A local hunting association examined the city and said that based on footprints and other evidence it was possible that what was seen might have been a wild boar. According to city officials, the reported bear was seen on Prefectural Road 73 in Okouchi Shinden in a mountainous area about 4 km southwest of Kashiwazaki Station, a road used as an out-and-back section of both the half marathon and marathon. Over 2200 people were participating in the race, but because runners were already on the return leg there were few people left. Organizers stopped those still running at a water station and used police cars and motorcycles to ensure their safety....