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Twelve Universities Confirmed for Mount Fuji Women's Ekiden

http://www.fuji-news.net/data/report/sports/201410/0000003415.html

 translated by Brett Larner

On Oct. 27 twelve of the twenty university teams to compete in the Dec. 23 Mount Fuji Women's Ekiden national invitational were announced.  The top twelve placing teams at last weekend's National University Women's Ekiden in Sendai received invitations to race the Mount Fuji Women's Ekiden:
  1. Ritsumeikan University
  2. Daito Bunka University
  3. Osaka Gakuin University
  4. Matsuyama University
  5. Kanoya Taiiku University
  6. Kyoto Sangyo University
  7. Meijo University
  8. Fukuoka University
  9. Tokyo Nogyo University
  10. Saitama University
  11. Hakuoh University
  12. Bukkyo University
Six of the remaining spots will go to other schools with the fastest average official 5000 m times and will be determined by Dec. 1.  On Dec. 5 two select teams will also be announced, one from East Japan featuring members of other universities from the Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto and Hoku-Shinetsu regions and one from West Japan featuring members of schools in the Tokai, Kansai, Chugoku-Shikoku and Kyushu regions.  According to the city sports department, the final list of schools and entered athletes will be published shortly before the race and will be available in newspapers and fliers in the towns of Fuji and Fujinomiya.
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