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Golden Games in Nobeoka Streaming and Entry Lists


Streaming of Wednesday's Golden Games in Nobeoka, the main spring 5000 m on the Japanese calendar pre-National Championships, kicks off at 4:00 p.m. local time, with senior women's and men's races starting at 6:00 p.m., the women's A-heat at 8:40 p.m., the men's B-heat at 9:05 p.m. and the men's A-heat at 9:30 p.m.

A lot of top-tier people will be at Saturday's 10000 m National Championships instead, but there are still enough good names on the entry list to keep GGN's torch blazing. Sub-15 Kenyans Naomi Muthoni (Univ. Ent.), Agnes Mwikali (Kyocera) and Judy Jepngetich (Shiseido) lead the women's A-heat, with an exciting addition being 8:47.85 high schooler Karoline Karaba (Kamimura Gakuen H.S.). Mikuni Yada (Denso) is the top Japanese woman on the list at 15:19.67.

The men's A-heat is packed with Japanese guys at the 13:30 level, most notably Yuhi Nakaya (SG Holdings) in his corporate debut and Shunsuke Yoshii (Chuo Univ.) in his collegiate debut, with a half dozen Kenyans in the 13:20s to keep things moving. But the B-heat is really the main event, with 24 Kenyans led by 12:59.44 man Richard Kimunyan (Hitachi Butsuryu), Ethiopian Yeneblo Biyazen (Hiramatsu Byoin), and 7 ambitious Japanese men including U20 1500 m and 3000 m NR holder Keita Sato (Komazawa Univ.), U20 5000 m NR holder Yamato Yoshii (Chuo Univ.), and indoor 5000 m NR holder Hyuga Endo (Sumitomo Denko). That sounds pretty good, right?


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Rigajags said…
Yoshii vs Endo? Sign me up for that! Curious to see Keita Sato first race in college at over 1500m. Is shunsuke Yoshii the Yamato's Brother? Since they are at the same college i thought that could be the case.

This meeting sounds exciting and with the 10.000 Nationals and the Golden Tokyo meeting with Miura and the others this Will be a great racing week!
May 3, 2022 at 8:53 PM
Brett Larner said…
Yes, they're brothers. Shunsuke ran 28:11.96 for 10,000m in high school, faster than Yamato did until college.
May 4, 2022 at 8:14 AM
Rigajags said…
Thank you for the answer and the insight.
It will be fun seeing them both at the Hakone, assuming the younger brother will make the team of course.
Talking about 10.000m times It still was awesome watching Yamato splitting 27.58 at the opening stage this year for the Hakone Ekiden while having a 28 and something PB.
Looking forward to today races, we havent seen Yoshii since january and Endo was in good shape last month at the 1500m vs Miura. I bet on Endo :)
May 4, 2022 at 3:58 PM
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