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National Corporate Championships - 5000 m and 3000 m Results

by Brett Larner

2010 National Jitsugyodan T&F Championships - Top Results
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Men's 5000 m Heat Three
1. Josephat Ndambiri (Kenya/Team Komori Corp.) - 13:56.08
2. Kenta Murotsuka (SDF Academy) - 13:56.13
3. Yuki Matsuoka (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 13:56.61
4. Hiroki Kadota (Team Kanebo) - 13:56.62
5. Takamasa Uchida (Team Toyota) - 13:56.79
6. Naoki Okamoto (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 13:57.01
7. Tsubasa Maeda (Team YKK) - 13:58.44
8. Hidehito Takamine (Team Fujitsu) - 13:58.73
9. Yoshikazu Kawazoe (Team Asahi Kasei) - 13:59.28
10. Hitoshi Nishi (Team Sagawa Express) - 14:03.99

Women's 5000 m Heat One
1. Ann Karindi (Kenya/Team Toyota Jidoshoki) - 15:59.42
2. Kaori Urata (Team Tenmaya) - 16:00.14
3. Shoko Mori (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 16:00.20
4. Mika Yoshikawa (Team Panasonic) - 16:00.38
5. Tomoka Inadomi (Team Wacoal) - 16:00.38
6. Yuko Shimizu (Team Sekisui Giken) - 16:00.43
7. Felista Wanjugu (Kenya/Team Universal Ent.) - 16:02.72
8. Hiroko Shoi (Team Nihon ChemiCon) - 16:03.80
9. Mariko Nakao (Team Shiseido) - 16:04.82
10. Kaori Oyama (Team Noritz) - 16:06.43

Men's 5000 m Heat Two
1. Yusuke Takabayashi (Team Toyota) - 13:54.81
2. Hideyuki Anzai (Team Nissin Shokuhin) - 13:56.66
3. Micah Njeru (Kenya/Team Toyota Boshoku) - 13:56.67
4. Tomoyuki Morita (Team Kanebo) - 13:56.68
5. Chiharu Nakamura (Team Toenec) - 13:56.74

Women's 5000 m Heat Two
1. Doricah Obare (Kenya/Team Hitachi) - 16:02.52
2. Christine Muyanga (Kenya/Team Panasonic) - 16:05.56
3. Risa Shigetomo (Team Tenmaya) - 16:05.87
4. Kazuka Wakatsuki (Team Toto) - 16:05.88
5. Yuko Mizuguchi (Team Denso) - 16:06.24
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DNF - Kayoko Fukushi (Team Wacoal)

Men's 5000 m Heat One
1. Jonathan Ndiku (Kenya/Team Hitachi Cable) - 13:56.80
2. Yasuhito Ikeda (Team NTT Nishi Nihon) - 13:57.28
3. Shuji Yoshikawa (Team Kyudenko) - 13:57.86
4. Peter Kariuki (Team Mazda) - 13:58.08
5. Yosuke Kanetsuka (Team Honda) - 13:58.11

Junior Women's 3000 m Heat One
1. Grace Kimazi (Kenya/Team Starts) - 9:23.87
2. Eri Mizutake (Team Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 9:25.07
3. Natsuki Morita (Team Sekisui Giken) - 9:25.26
4. Ayaka Mori (Team Toyota Jidoshoki) - 9:27.56
5. Ayaka Inoue (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 9:27.89

Junior Men's 5000 m
1. Takayuki Hamaguchi (Team Shikoku Denryoku) - 14:04.13
2. Chihiro Miyawaki (Team Toyota) - 14:04.51
3. Kenta Matsumoto (Team Toyota) - 14:08.96

Junior Women's 3000 m Heat Two
1. Betelhem Moges (Ethiopia/Team Denso) - 9:23.94
2. Rei Ohara (Team Tenmaya) - 9:27.49
3. Miharu Shimokado (Team Daiichi Seimei) - 9:28.37
4. Maiko Kushima (Niigata Albirex AC) - 9:28.66
5. Natsumi Matsumoto (Team Nihon ChemiCon) - 9:28.70

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