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Two Junior National Records and Four Meet Records - National Sports Festival Day Three to Five Highlights



Avoiding the worst of the typhoon that caused the season-opening national-level high school ekidens and other events to be canceled over the weekend, the National Sports Festival continued through Tuesday after day one and day two of athletics competition.

National junior records fell in the women's 5000 m racewalk, where Nanako Fujii (Edion) took 2nd overall in 21:24.40, and the junior men's 110 m hurdles, where Ko Tawada (Ogaki Shogyo H.S.) ran 13.31 (+1.5 m/s) for the win. Tawada also broke the meet record, one of four to be set over the final three days. Along with Tawada's mark, women's 5000 m racewalk winner Kumiko Okada (Bic Camera) set a new meet record of 21:08.97, Takumi Murashima (Fuji Pref. Sports Assoc.) set a senior men's 800 m meet record of 1:47.45, with his teammate Taio Kanai (Fukui Pref. Sports Assoc.) breaking the senior men's 110 m hurdles record in 13.46 (+1.2 m/s).



In distance action the highlight was the junior women's 3000 m, where Kenya Marta Mokaya (Oita Tomei H.S.) ran a PB 8:51.11 to lead the top three including Ririka Hironaka (Nagasaki Shogyo H.S.) under nine minutes. Ran Urabe (Nike Tokyo TC) beat 5000 m top two Nozomi Tanaka (ND28 AC) and Tomomi Musembi Takamatsu (Meijo Univ.) to win the senior women's 1500 m in 4:16.36. Masaya Tsurukawa (Kyushu Gakuin H.S.) won the junior men's 3000 m in 8:23.93, while Kenyan Benuel Mogeni (Oita Tomei H.S.) was the only one under 14 minutes in the junior men's 5000 m, winning in 13:56.25.

National Sports Festival Day Three to Five Highlights

9.98 Stadium, Fukui, 10/7~9/18
complete results

Women
Senior Women's 400 m Final
1. Ayaka Kawata (Higashi Osaka Univ.) - 53.97

Senior Women's 1500 m Final
1. Ran Urabe (Nike Tokyo TC) - 4:16.36
2. Tomomi Musembi Takamatsu (Meijo Univ.) - 4:16.88
3. Nozomi Tanaka (ND28 AC) - 4:17.43

Senior Women's 5000 m Racewalk Final
1. Kumiko Okada (Bic Camera) - 21:08.97 - MR
2. Nanako Fujii (Edion) - 21:24.40 - U20 NR
3. Kaori Kawazoe (SDF) - 22:16.22

Senior Women's Javelin Throw
1. Haruka Kitaguchi (Nihon Univ.) - 58.83 m

Junior Women's 400 m Final
1. Saki Takashima (Soyo H.S.) - 54.61

Junior Women's 3000 m Final
1. Marta Mokaya (Oita Tomei H.S.) - 8:51.11 - PB
2. Tabitha Kamau (Kamimura Gakuen H.S.) - 8:52.41 - PB
3. Ririka Hironaka (Nagasaki Shogyo H.S.) - 8:57.78
4. Veronica Marsha (Niigata Sangyo Prep H.S.) - 9:05.37 - PB
5. Rina Kimura (Sendai Ikuei H.S.) - 9:07.30 - PB

Junior Women's 100 m Hurdles Final +2.5 m/s
1. Ayumi Kobayashi (Funabashi Municipal H.S.) - 13.13

Junior Women's Long Jump Final
1. Chiaki Kawazoe (Matsuyama Kita H.S.) - 6.07 m +1.3 m/s

 Junior Women's Triple Jump Final
1. Aiko Miyagawa (Seiryo H.S.) - 12.78 m +1.6 m/s

 Junior Women's Javelin Throw Final
1. Miran Naraoka (Hirosaki Chuo H.S.) - 53.38 m

Mixed-Age Women's 4x100 m Final
1. Tokyo - 45.12
2. Kyoto - 45.26
3. Hokkaido - 45.34

 Men
Senior Men's 400 m Final
1. Mitsuki Kawauchi (Kinki Univ.) - 46.43

Senior Men's 800 m Final
1. Takumi Murashima (Fuji Pref. Sports Assoc.) - 1:47.45 - MR

Senior Men's 110 m Hurdles Final +1.2 m/s
1. Taio Kanai (Fukui Pref. Sports Assoc.) - 13.46 - MR

 Senior Men's 400 m Hurdles Final
1. Ryo Kajiki (Sumitomo Denko) - 49.61

Senior Men's 10000m Racewalk Final
1. Naoki Ikeda (Toyo Univ.) - 39:05.44

Senior Men's High Jump Final
1. Naoto Tobe (Tsukuba Twin Peaks) - 2.25 m

Senior Men's Triple Jump Final
1. Ryoma Yamamoto (JAL) - 16.74 m (no wind reading listed in results)

 Senior Men's Shot Put Final
1. Masahira Sato (Kokushikan Club) - 17.70 m

Senior Men's Javelin Throw Final
1. Gen Naganuma (Kokushikan Univ.) - 77.67 m

Junior Men's 400 m Final
1. Shunta Fujiyoshi (Shuyukan H.S.) - 47.48

Junior Men's 3000 m Final
1. Masaya Tsurukawa (Kyushu Gakuin H.S.) - 8:23.93
2. Daishi Ito (Saku Chosei H.S.) - 8:27.32
3. Haruto Ishizuka (Waseda Jitsugyo H.S.) - 8:27.36
4. Kento Mikata (Fujieda Meisei H.S.) - 8:29.30
5. Hiroki Wakabayashi (Rakunan H.S.) - 8:29.30

Junior Men's 5000 m Final
1. Benuel Mogeni (Oita Tomei H.S.) - 13:56.25
2. Ryuto Ikawa (Kyushu Gakuin H.S.) - 14:04.21
3. Ryuji Miura (Rakunan H.S.) - 14:04.50
4. Yusuke Kodama (Tohoku H.S.) - 14:06.23
5. Yoshiki Kushida (Gakuho Ishikawa H.S.) - 14:06.72

Junior Men's 110 m Hurdles Final +1.5 m/s
1. Ko Tawada (Ogaki Shogyo H.S.) - 13.31 - MR, U20 NR tie

 Junior Men's 5000 m Racewalk Final
1. Ryo Hamanishi (Riseisha H.S.) - 20:27.62

Junior Men's High Jump Final
1. Hirokazu Sakai (Osaka Gyosei H.S.) - 2.12 m

Junior Men's Triple Jump Final
1. Motoi Araki (Wakayama Kita H.S.) - 16.04 m +1.9 m/s

Junior Men's Javelin Throw Final
1. Tatsuki Minami (Ishikawa H.S.) - 66.12 m

Junior Men's Hammer Throw Final
1. Yuki Maruyama (Kisarazu Sogo H.S.) - 64.38 m

Mixed-Age Men's 4x100 m Relay Final
1. Tokyo 40.00
2. Hiroshima - 40.07
3. Saitama - 40.12

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