http://www.soycobarde.com/2015/12/la-bella-locura-de-yuki-los-maratones.html
A Spanish-language review of Yuki Kawauchi's 56 marathons to date in his career.
A Spanish-language review of Yuki Kawauchi's 56 marathons to date in his career.
3rd last year, Waseda University scored its first Izumo Ekiden win since 2010, taking almost 2 minutes off the CR and leading the top 7 teams under the old record of 2:07:51 for the complete 6-stage, 45.1 km course. Waseda was 16 seconds back in 7th after the First Stage, but its 2nd runner Ojiro Honda made that up easily and put them 6 seconds out front. A massive 22:56 CR for the 8.5 km Third Stage by Shadrack Kipkemei (Nihon Univ.) dropped Waseda back to 2nd even though its runner Ryuki Suzuki broke the old CR too, but back-to-back CR on the next 2 stages by 1st-year Haruki Niizuma and Shunpei Yamaguchi put anchor Shinsaku Kudo out of reach of the rest of the field. Kudo duly won the 10.2 km anchor stage in 29:00, bypassing a 2:06 time entirely for a new 2:05:56 CR, just under 2:48/km average pace for the complete course. Defending champ Koku Gakuin University struggled a bit in the first half of the race but came on strong in the longer second half with 4th and 5th runners...
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Obviously, through your web, we can follow from Spain the Kawauchi's career, and everything that happens in japanese athletics.
It's a deep pride this mention, and a pleasure for me. Thank you, of course, for your work.
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