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Rain Can't Stop Four Meet Records - Oda Memorial Meet Highlights


Increasingly heavy rain throughout the day couldn't hold back four meet records at the 57th Mikio Oda Memorial Meet Saturday in Hiroshima, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze label meet.

On the field, NR holder Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) set a new MR of 63.45 m on her 3rd attempt, then took that up to a winning 64.50 m on her 5th attempt. On the track, Rose Wangui of Sera H.S. won the U20 women's 3000 m by over 23 seconds in a MR 9:03.03, over 10 seconds under the old MR. Australian Georgia Winkcup took 5 seconds off the women's 3000 mSC MR, winning in 9:46.27 by almost 10 seconds over Manami Nishiyama (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo). The top 7 in the men's 1500 m all broke the old MR, with Nanami Arai (Honda) getting the win in 3:40.24 with the top 5 all under 3:41.

In other races, quadruple U20 NR holder Keita Sato of 2023 Hakone Ekiden champ Komazawa University scored the first major win of his career on the track, holding back in the 1st half of the men's 5000 m A-final before asserting control in the 2nd half and holding off Kenyan Daniel Ndiritu (NTT Nishi Nihon), 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura (Juntendo Univ.), 5000 m H.S. NR holder Hiroto Yoshioka (Juntendo Univ.) and others to win in 13:27.04. In post-race comments Sato credited time he spent training with American coach Dathan Ritzenhein in the U.S. last month and workouts he learned there with helping develop his last kick.

Teresiah Muthoni (Daiso) had a dominant solo win in 15:13.41 in the women's 5000 m A-final, but the B-final was a close three-way battle between Esther Wambui Wangui (Starts), Rebecca Mwangi (Daiso) and Esther Muthoni (Nitori). Wangui got the win in 15:22.66, but both Mwangi and Muthoni were less than a second and a half behind.

Olympian Ryoma Aoki (Honda) got the win in the men's 3000 mSC in 8:35.60 in a tight battle with Kenyan Philemon Kiplagat (Aisan Kogyo) in the home straight. Yume Goto (Uniqlo) followed up her 1500 m win at the Kanaguri Memorial Meet earlier this month with another win, this one in 4:18.06. These and other results below.

57th Mikio Oda Memorial Meet

Edion Stadium, Hiroshima, 29 Apr. 2023

Men

Men's 5000 m A-Final
1. Keita Sato (Komazawa Univ.) - 13:27.04
2. Daniel Ndiritu (NTT Nishi Nihon) - 13:27.43
3. Takato Suzuki (SGH) - 13:29.21
4. Ayumu Kobayashi (NTT Nishi Nihon) - 13:30.65
5. Ryuji Miura (Juntendo Univ.) - 13:35.00
6. Hazuma Hattori (NTT Nishi Nihon) - 13:37.72
7. Hiroto Yoshioka (Juntendo Univ.) - 13:39.84
8. Victor Kimutai (Josai Univ.) - 13:40.69
9. Takuma Sunaoka (Konica Minolta) - 13:50.82
10. Yuta Bando (Fujitsu) - 13:51.31

Men's 5000 m B-Final
1. Dan Kiplangat (JFE Steel) - 13:35.46
2. Jonson Mugeni (Asia Univ.) - 13:52.93
3. Sota Arita (Suma Gakuen H.S.) - 13:54.30 - PB
4. Taisei Kiyono (Chugoku Denryoku) - 13:54.60
5. Naoki Okamoto (Chugoku Denryoku) - 13:57.41

Men's 3000 mSC Final
1. Ryoma Aoki (Honda) - 8:35.60
2. Philemon Kiplagat (Aisan Kogyo) - 8:36.33
3. Seiya Sunada (Press Kogyo) - 8:36.35
4. Taiju Nishikata (Aisan Kogyo) - 8:36.47
5. Yuto Urata (Chuo Univ.) - 8:37.11

Men's 1500 m Final
1. Nanami Arai (Honda) - 3:40.24 - MR
2. Abraham Guem (Ami AC) - 3:40.29 (MR)
3. Yusuke Takahashi (Hokkaido Univ.) - 3:40.44 (MR)
4. Kazuki Kawamura (Toenec) - 3:40.59 (MR)
5. Masato Saiki (Fujino Meisui) - 3:40.62 (MR)
6. Ryoji Tatezawa (DeNA) - 3:41.37 (MR)
7. Rikuto Iijima (Ami AC) - 3:42.23 (MR)
8. Peter Wangari (NTN) - 3:43.60
9. Keisuke Morita (Subaru) - 3:45.17
10. Yudai Noguchi (Toenec) - 3:45.74

Men's 110 mH A-Final +0.3 m/s
1. Shuhei Ishikawa (Fujitsu) - 13.43
2. Shunya Takayama (Zenrin) - 13.47
3. Ryo Tokuoka (Kagotani) - 13.57

Men's 100 m A-Final +0.5 m/s
1. Hiroki Yanagita (Toyo Univ.) - 10.25
2. Chun-Han Yang (Taiwan) - 10.25
3. Akihiro Higashida (Sekisho) - 10.26
4. Ippei Takeda (Suzuki) - 10.27
5. Yoshihide Kiryu (Nihon Seimei) - 10.29

Men's Pole Vault
1. Atsushi Haraguchi (Higashi Osaka Univ.) - 5.20 m
2. Shinto Ozaki (Roots Tokyo AC) - 5.20 m
2. Takuma Ishikawa (Tokyo Kaijo CS) - 5.20 m

Men's Triple Jump
1. Abdulla Narangolintevida (India) - 16.31 m +0.4 m/s
2. Aiden Hinson (Australia) - 16.18 m +0.8 m/s
3. Hikaru Ikehata (Surugadai Univ.) - 16.14 m +1.3 m/s

Men's Javelin Throw
1. Roderick Genki Dean (Mizuno) - 77.94 m
2. Kenji Ogura (ESM) - 77.45 m
3. Ryohei Arai (Suzuki) - 77.11 m

Women

Women's 5000 m A-Final
1. Teresiah Muthoni (Daiso) - 15:13.41
2. Wakana Kabasawa (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 15:28.79
3. Tabitha Njeri Kamau (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaito) - 15:30.37
4. Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:30.70
5. Ankita (India) - 15:33.24
6. Momoka Kawaguchi (Uniqlo) - 15:37.90
7. Mikuni Yada (Edion) - 15:45.52
8. Rina Kusu (Sekisui Kagaku) - 15:48.73
9. Hiromi Katakai (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 15:52.21
10. Aya Kotajima (Hakuoh Joshi H.S.) - 15:54.20

Women's 5000 m B-Final
1. Esther Wambui Wangui (Starts) - 15:22.66
2. Rebecca Mwangi (Daiso) - 15:23.16
3. Esther Muthoni (Nitori) - 15:24.10
4. Naomi Muthoni Kariuki (Univ. Ent.) - 15:28.40
5. Rion Furukawa (Nitori) - 16:07.85

Women's 3000 mSC Final
1. Georgia Winkcup (Australia) - 9:46.27 - MR
2. Manami Nishiyama (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) - 9:56.90
3. Yuzu Nishide (Daihatsu) - 10:05.04
4. Reimi Yoshimura (Cramer Japan) - 10:19.94
5. Soya Segawa (Sysmex) - 10:33.73

Junior Women's 3000 m Heat 2
1. Rose Wangui (Sera H.S.) - 9:03.03 - MR
2. Misaki Shitamori (Kitakyushu Municipal H.S.) - 9:26.75
3. Yumi Yamamoto (Ritsumeikan Uji H.S.) - 9:28.04
4. Momoka Moriyasu (Gingawa Gakuin H.S.) - 9:31.49
5. Yua Tsukamoto (Osaka Kunei Joshi Gakuin H.S.) - 9:32.97

Women's 1500 m Final
1. Yume Goto (Uniqlo) - 4:18.06
2. Mizuki Michishita (Rikkyo Univ.) - 4:19.47
3. Saki Katagihara (Tsukuba Univ.)- 4:20.18
4. Ayano Ide (Wacoal) - 4:21.38
5. Runa Shoji (Kantaiheiyo Univ.) - 4:21.86

Women's 100 mH A-Final +0.6 m/s
1. Yumi Tanaka (Fujitsu) - 12.97
2. Masumi Aoki (77 Ginko) - 12.98
3. Mako Fukube (NKK) - 13.02

Women's 100 m A-Final +1.3 m/s
1. Riley Day (Australia) - 11.52
2. Remi Tsuruta (Minami Kyushu Family Mart) - 11.55
3. Kristina Marie Knott (Philippines) - 11.63

Women's High Jump
1. Nagisa Takahashi (Mainswork AC) - 1.80 m
2. Chiau-Yin Jhang (Taiwan) - 1.74 m
3. Ching-Ching Lee (Taiwan) - 1.74 m

Women's Triple Jump
1. Mariko Morimoto (Uchida Kenetsu AC) - 13.68 m +1.0 m/s
2. Maoko Takashima (Kyudenko) - 13.64 m +0.8 m/s
3. Akari Funada (Mukogawa Joshi Univ.) - 13.40 m +0.5 m/s

Women's Javelin Throw
1. Haruka Kitaguchi (JAL) - 64.50 m - MR
2. Marina Saito (Suzuki) - 62.07 m
3. Mahiro Osa (Kokushikan Univ.) - 57.95 m

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