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AGU's Hiramatsu Wins Yaizu Minato Half Marathon




The 40th annual Yaizu Minato Half Marathon and 39th National University Pair Marathon took place Sunday in Yaizu, Shizuoka. Kyosuke Hiramatsu of 2025 Hakone Ekiden champ Aoyama Gakuin University took the overall win in 1:03:02.

Approximately 50 university athletes from 19 schools across the Kanto Region took part, with the race kicking off in rainy conditions. The lead group went through 5 km in 14:50, with 20 of them sticking close together until late in the race. As people began to fade, the first real move came near 17 km. Hiramatsu went to the front to break the group up, then attacked again at 20 km to get clear of those who were left. Toma Tanaka (Koku Gakuin Univ.) and Yumeto Ito (Chuo Univ.) tried to follow, but Hiramatsu pulled it off perfectly to make it two AGU wins a row following Masaya Tsurukawa's victory last year.

Tanaka and Ito both clocked 1:03:08, with Tanaka getting 2nd and Ito 3rd. Ryusei Kawachi (Tokyo Kokusai Univ.) was 4th in 1:03:10. In the National University Pair Marathon competition, which scores schools based on the combined times of their first two finishers, 2024 Izumo Ekiden and National University Ekiden winner Koku Gakuin University was 1st in 2:06:21, with Chuo University a narrow 2nd in 2:06:22. The Koku Gakuin athletes were awarded an entire maguro tuna from the local fishing community for their win.

40th Yaizu Minato Half Marathon

Yaizu, Shizuoka, 6 April 2025

Men
1. Kyosuke Hiramatsu (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 1:03:02
2. Toma Tanaka (Koku Gakuin Univ.) - 1:03:08
3. Yumeto Ito (Chuo Univ.) - 1:03:08
4. Ryusei Kawachi (Tokyo Kokusai Univ.) - 1:03:10
5. Eliud Kabiga (Musashino Gakuin Univ.) - 1:03:13
6. Shoma Kamada (Koku Gakuin Univ.) - 1:03:13
7. Kosuke Sato (Chuo Univ.) - 1:03:14
8. Kosei Orii (Chuo Univ.) - 1:03:22
9. Riku Sato (Senshu Univ.) - 1:03:24
10. Yoshiki Omura (Tokyo Kokusai Univ.) - 1:03:27
11. Kyoichi Okamura (Koku Gakuin Univ.) - 1:03:31
12. Riku Kijima (Rikkyo Univ.) - 1:03:42
13. Taisei Endo (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 1:03:49
14. Soma Matsui (Takushoku Univ.) - 1:03:51
15. Jun Mizusaki (Asia Univ.) - 1:04:00

Pair Marathon
1. Koku Gakuin University - 2:06:21
2. Chuo University - 2:06:22
3. Tokyo Kokusai University - 2:06:37
4. Aoyama Gakuin University - 2:06:51
5. Yamanashi Gakuin University - 2:09:13
6. Chuo Gakuin University - 2:09:48
7. Soka University - 2:09:52
8. Senshu University - 2:09:56


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