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Sekisui Kagaku Wins Princess Ekiden



The qualifying race for the Nov. 24 National Corporate Women's Ekiden Championships took place Oct. 20 in the town of Munakata, Fukuoka. Covering 42.195 km in six stages, in its fifth running the Princess Ekiden hosted 28 teams competing for the 14 qualifying spots on offer. Sekisui Kagaku took 1st among them in 2:19:36, holding off runner-up Kyudenko by 16 seconds with 3rd-placer Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo another 4 seconds behind.

7th-place Hitachi qualified for Nationals for the first time in 3 years, and 14th-place Uniqlo made it in for the first time in 4 years, while Kagoshima Ginko was the unlucky 15th-place team, just 33 seconds short of qualifying. Two new stage records were set, Kaede Hagitani (Edion) running a new record of 22:28 for the 7.0 km First Stage and marathoner Miyuki Uehara (Daiichi Seimei) running 34:42 for the 10.4 km Fourth Stage a month after a DNF at the MGC Race 2020 Olympic marathon trials.

Princess Ekiden

National Corporate Women's Ekiden Qualifier
Munakata, Fukuoka, 10/20/19
28 teasm, 6 stages, 42.195 km
top 14 qualify for National Corporate Women's Ekiden
complete results

Top Team Results
1. Sekisui Kagaku - 2:19:36
2. Kyudenko - 2:19:52
3. Mitsui Sumitomo Denko - 2:19:56
4. Daiichi Seimei - 2:20:32
5. Route Inn Hotels - 2:20:34
6. Kyocera - 2:20:37
7. Hitachi - 2:20:38
8. Otsuka Seiyaku - 2:20:43
9. Edion - 2:20:54
10. Universal Entertainment - 2:21:06
11. Shiseido - 2:21:14
12. Higo Ginko - 2:22:43
13. Starts - 2:23:25
14. Uniqlo - 2:23:45
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15. Higo Ginko - 2:24:18

Individual Stage Best Performances
First Stage (7.0 km) - Kaede Hagitani (Edion) - 22:28 - CR
Second Stage (3.6 km) - Misaki Tanabe (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 11:25
Third Stage (10.7 km) - Rui Aoyama (Univ. Ent.) - 34:41
Fourth Stage (3.8 km) - Pauline Kamulu (Route Inn Hotels) - 11:37
Fifth Stage (10.4 km) - Miyuki Uehara (Daiichi Seimei) - 34:42 - CR
Sixth Stage (6.695 km) - tie -
Yuma Adachi (Kyocera) - 21:54
Natsumi Ozawa (Hitachi) - 21:54

source article:
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20191020/k00/00m/050/071000c
translated by Brett Larner

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