An Update on Japan's Potential Team for Oregon '22

An update to last week's story on where Japan's potential team for next month's Oregon World Championships stands with 3 days left in the qualifying window.

Men's 100 m (48)

33. Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (Tumbleweed TC) - 10.04 (+0.8)

withdrawn - 43. Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei)

Men's 200 m (56)

quota - 38. Yuki Koike (Sumitomo Denko)

quota - 50. Koki Ueyama (Sumitomo Denko)

Men's 400 m (48)

quota - 36. Fuga Sato (Nasu Kankyo)

quota - 42. Kaito Kawabata (Chukyo Univ. AC)

quota - 47. Julian Walsh (Fujitsu)

Men's 5000 m (42)

36. Hyuga Endo (Sumitomo Denko) - 13:10.69

Men's 10000 m (27)

standard, not top 3 - 22. Ren Tazawa (Komazawa Univ.) - 27:33.44

Men's 110 mH (40)

13. Shunsuke Izumiya (Sumitomo Denko) - 13.21 (-1.2)

19. Rachid Muratake (Juntendo Univ.) - 13.27 (-0.5)

in range of quota - 41. Shuhei Ishikawa (Fujitsu)

in range of quota - 42. Shunya Takayama (Zenrin)

in range of quota - 42. Shusei Nomoto (Ehime T&F Assoc.)

Men's 400 mH (40)

24. Kazuki Kurokawa (Hosei Univ.) - 48.89

quota - 39. Masaki Toyoda (Fujitsu)

in range of quota - 45. Takayuki Kishimoto (Fujitsu)

Men's 3000 mSC (45)

8. Ryuji Miura (Juntendo Univ.) - 8:09.92

35. Ryoma Aoki (Honda) - 8:20.09

quota - 40. Kosei Yamaguchi (Aisan Kogyo)

Relays

Men's 4x100 m

Men's 4x400 m

Men's High Jump (32)

quota - 16. Tomohiro Shinno (Kyudenko)

quota - 25. Ryoichi Akamatsu (Awas)

quota, did not compete at Nationals due to injury - 17. Naoto Tobe (JAL)

Men's Pole Vault (32)

quota - 30. Seito Yamamoto (Toyota)

quota, injured post-Nationals - 32. Masaki Ejima (Fujitsu)

Men's Long Jump (32)

9. Yuki Hashioka (Fujitsu) - 8.27 m (+1.4)

in range of quota - 35. Natsuki Yamanaka (Saga Sports Assoc.)

in range of quota - 36. Hiromichi Yoshida (Kamisaki T&F Assoc.)

Men's Javelin Throw (32)

quota - 19. Roderick Genki Dean (Mizuno)

in range of quota - 34. Kenji Ogura (Tochigi Sports Assoc.)

Men's Marathon (100)

13. Kengo Suzuki (Fujitsu) - 2:04:56

Gaku Hoshi (Konica Minolta) - 2:07:31

Yusuke Nishiyama (Toyota) - 2:07:47

Men's 20 kmRW (60)

1. Toshikazu Yamanishi (Aichi Seiko) - 1:17:20

7. Koki Ikeda (Asahi Kasei) - 1:18:53

9. Eiki Takahashi (Fujitsu) -1:19:04

Hiroto Jusho (Juntendo Univ.) - 1:20:14

Men's 35 kmRW (60)

1. Masatora Kawano (Asahi Kasei) - 2:26:40

2. Daisuke Matsunaga (Fujitsu) - 2:27:09

3. Tomohiro Noda (SDF Academy) - 2:27:18

withdrawn - Yusuke Suzuki (Fujitsu)

Women

Women's 1500 m (45)

10. Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 3:59.19

quota - 45. Ran Urabe (Sekisui Kagaku)

Women's 5000 m (42)

22. Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 14:52.84

26. Nozomi Tanaka (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 14:59.93

standard, not top 3 - 25. Kaede Hagitani (Edion) - 14:59.36

Women's 10000 m (27)

18. Ririka Hironaka (Japan Post) - 31:00.71

21. Rino Goshima (Shiseido) - 31:10.02

standard, not top 3 - Narumi Kobayashi (Meijo Univ.) - 31:22.34

standard, did not compete at Nationals - 12. Seira Fuwa (Takushoku Univ.) - 30:45.21

standard, did not compete at Nationals - Yuka Ando (Wacoal) - 31:18.18

Women's 100 mH (40)

quota - 38. Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko)

quota - 39. Mako Fukube (NKK)

Women's 400 mH (40)

in range of quota - 43. Eri Utsunomiya (Hasegawa)

Women's 3000 mSC (45)

quota - 44. Yuno Yamanaka (Ehime Ginko)

Women's Long Jump (32)

quota - 24. Sumire Hata (Shibata Kogyo)

Women's Javelin Throw (32)

quota - 15. Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL)

quota - 26. Momone Ueda (Zenrin)

in range of quota - 33. Sae Takemoto (Saga Sports Assoc.)

Relays

Women's 4x100 m

Mixed 4x400 m

Women's Marathon (100)

13. Mizuki Matsuda (Daihatsu) - 2:20:52

14. Mao Ichiyama (Shiseido) - 2:21:02

15. Hitomi Niiya (Sekisui Kagaku) - 2:21:17

Women's 20 kmRW (60)

22. Nanako Fujii (Edion) - 1:29:29

23. Kumiko Okada (Fujitsu) - 1:29:31

Women's 35 kmRW (60)

6. Serena Sonoda (NTN) - 2:45:48

quota - 33. Kaori Kawazoe (SDF Academy)

quota - 36. Maika Yagi (Chiba Kogyo Ginko)

Waseda Leads Top 7 Teams Under Izumo Ekiden CR, Ivy League Best-Ever 3rd (updated)

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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Back for the first time in 21 years after a disastrous 14th-place finish at the 102nd Hakone Ekiden this past January, Toyo University hit one out of western Tokyo's Showa Kinen Park with a solid win at the Hakone Ekiden Yosenkai, the half marathon that serves as the official qualifying race for the 103rd Hakone Ekiden. The top 10 teams in the Hakone auto-qualify for the following year, with the rest having to run the Yosenkai in October with a squad of 10 to 16 runners out of which the top 10 score on aggregate time, with the 10 fastest schools joining the Hakone field and top individuals from non-qualifying teams names to the Kanto Region Student Alliance select team to make up the complete Hakone field of 21. Driven in large part by an aggressive run from 3rd-year Yu Miyazaki , one of only 2 Japanese athletes to go with the big African contingent up front, Toyo won in 10:31:30, 1:03:09 or 2:59.6/km per athlete. As the first team to have broken the 3:00/km average pace barrie...

Ngetich and Mutiso Take Down Tokyo Legacy Half CR

In its 5th edition the Tokyo Legacy Half Marathon scored 2 new course records via Kenyans from the Ikaika agency, with 10 km WR holder Agnes Ngetich blasting 3 minutes off the old record to win by over 4 in 1:04:23, and Alexander Mutiso skimming just 1 second under the CR for the win by 5 seconds in 59:51. The 2 races played out completely differently, even if the paydays were the same for the winners. Surrounded by an envelope of male runners all the way to the final 100 m, Ngetich was out hard on the downhill in the first 5 km, hitting it on sub-64 pace in 15:08 before leveling out on the flat middle 10 km. Her next 2 splits projected to 1:04:09 and 1:04:17, and even with the uphill back to the stadium in the last 5 km she didn't fall far off from that, winning in 1:04:23. Runner-up Tabitha Njeri Kamau was nearly a mile back in 1:08:28, with Kamau's Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo teammate Kazuna Kanetomo dropping a 1:10:17 PB for 3rd. Now an independent, track Olympian Kaede Ha...

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