Skip to main content

Fast High School 5000 m Times at Nittai and Kyoto


After the great men's 10000 m and women's 5000 m results on day 1 of the last full Nittai University Time Trials meet of 2025, day 2 brought a lot of great 5000 m times from high schoolers, both at Nittai and at another meet in Kyoto.

At Nittai, Bilith Boi (Sapporo Yamanote H.S.) downed 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura (Subaru) in the last of the 35 heats of 5000 m, running 13:27.52 to Miura's 13:28.61. Ryo Goda (Yasukawa Denki) also got under 13:30, running 13:29.41 for 3rd, with 40-year-old Yuichiro Ueno (Hiramatsu Byoin) rocking on with a 13:32.12 for 4th. James Karuri (Aomori Yamada H.S.) was 8th in 13:35.46, with 17-year-old Naoya Doma (Sera H.S.) running an excellent 13:39.13 for 10th.

Samuel Gayu and Yua Hayashi also got under 14 minutes in the same heat to make it 3 sub-14 for Sapporo Yamanote H.S. In Heat 34, Chien Tzu-Chieh (Sendai Ikuei H.S.) ran a Taiwanese NR 13:48.99 for 4th, with Yui Kudo and Yugo Yamamoto running sub-14 to bring the Aomori Yamada H.S. total for the day to 3 as well. Heat 33 saw Suma Gakuen H.S. get onto the scoreboard too with a 13:58.27 from Riku Umeda.


The Kyoto Time Trials meet the same day served as the selection race for Japan's U20 teams for January's World XC Championships in Florida. The top 6 in the boys' race, all high schoolers, went sub-14, led by Haruki Niizuma in 13:49.59. 16-year-old Mona Utsunomiya (Sapporo Yamanote H.S.) took the girls' race in 15:37.61, 10 seconds behind what her crosstown rival Ayami Yoshida (Sapporo Sosei H.S.) had run at Nittai the day before. The top 3 was an interesting mix, with Mei Hosoda (Meijo Univ.) 2nd in 15:40.89 and corporate leaguer Michi Kawanishi (Toyota Jidoshokki) 3rd in 15:42.59.

325th Nittai University Time Trials

Yokohama, Kanagawa, 30 Nov. 2025

Men's 5000 m NCG Heat 1 (Heat 35)
1. Bilith Boi (Sapporo Yamanote H.S.) - 13:27.52
2. Ryuji Miura (Subaru) - 13:28.61
3. Ryo Goda (Yasukawa Denki) - 13:29.41
4. Yuichiro Ueno (Hiramatsu Byoin) - 13:32.12
5. Edwin Kisalsak (Yamanote GX) - 13:32.86
6. Shoya Kawase (NTN) - 13:33.51
7. Yeneblo Biyazen (Hiramatsu Byoin) - 13:35.18
8. James Karuri (Aomori Yamada H.S.) - 13:35.46
9. Keisuke Morita (Subaru) - 13:38.22
10. Naoya Doma (Sera H.S.) - 13:39.13
11. Joseph Mumo (MABP Maverick) - 13:42.66
12. Nixon Lesia (Nishitetsu) - 13:46.94
13. Tatsuhiro Taniguchi (NTN) - 13:47.37
14. Ruon Oikawa (ND Software) - 13:47.71
15. Haruto Koshizuka (JFE Steel) - 13:49.55
16. Samuel Gayu (Sapporo Yamanote H.S.) - 13:54.09
17. Hiroto Takamura (Toenec) - 13:55.25
18. Justus Mwathia (Fujisan GX) - 13:55.84
19. Shintaro Kudo (Komazawa Univ.) - 13:56.28
20. Shota Morishita (Meiji Univ.) - 13:56.94
21. Yua Hayashi (Sapporo Yamanote H.S.) - 13:57.12
22. Daisuke Shimojo (ND Software) - 13:58.25
23. Patrick Kamau (Jobu Univ.) - 14:02.29
24. Brian Kiptoo (Comodi Iida) - 14:03.89
25. Muthoni Muiru (Press Kogyo) - 14:04.27
26. Haruki Furukawa (Morifu H.S.) - 14:19.24
27. Rijun Nishizuka (Sapporo Gakuin Univ.) - 14:20.63
28. Shuhei Yamamoto (Aichi T&F Assoc,) - 14:35.12
DNF - Takumi Yokokawa (Gunma T&F Assoc.)

Men's 5000 m Heat 34
1. Dale Carroll (Australia) - 13:46.26
2. Victor Kiptum (Yasukawa Denki) - 13:46.65
3. Daiki Sasaki (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 13:46.97
4. Chien Tzu-Chieh (Taiwan/Sendai Ikuei H.S.) - 13:48.99 - NR
5. Felix Muthiani (Yamanashi Gakuin H.S.) - 13:51.91
6. Yui Kudo (Aomori Yamada H.S.) - 13:52.00
7. Yuki Seto (Fujisan GX) - 13:52.61
8. Kazuki Kawamura (Toenec) - 13:53.47
9. Yuto Nakahara (NTN) - 13:54.21
10. Kiyoto Ono (Juntendo Univ.) - 13:54.42
-----
20. Yugo Yamamoto (Aomori Yamada H.S.) - 13:57.85

Men's 5000 m Heat 33
1. Shun Osawa (K-project) - 13:53.97
2. Tomoki Nakano (Toenec) - 13:54.65
3. Kenichi Hashimoto (Josai Univ.) - 13:56.23
4. Kosei Tanimura (Kansai Univ.) - 13:57.02
5. Nagi Miyamoto (Josai Univ.) - 13:57.04
6. Soya Mizuno (Ritsumeikan Univ.) - 13:57.28
7. Riku Umeda (Suma Gakuen H.S.) - 13:58.27
8. Sho Fukuda (Chudenko) - 13:58.93
9. Keito Suzuki (Fujisan GX) - 13:59.30
10. Takumi Shiobara (Juntendo Univ.) - 14:00.00

8th Kyoto Rikkyo Time Trials

2026 World XC / Asian XC U20 Selection Race
Kyoto, 30 Nov. 2025

Women's 5000 m Heat 3
1. Mona Utsunomiya (Sapporo Yamanote H.S.) - 15:37.61
2. Mei Hosomi (Meijo Univ.) - 15:40.89
3. Michi Kawanishi (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 15:42.59
4. Yui Onotora (Tohoku H.S.) - 15:43.74
5. Airi Majiba (Nagano Higashi H.S.) - 15:49.95
6. Wakana Fukuyama (Saitama Sakae H.S.) - 16:06.86
7. Yui Otani (Hamamatsu Shiritsu H.S.) - 16:17.66
8. Serie Fukuda (Niigata Meikun H.S.) - 16:31.32
9. Nanami Okawa (Wakayama Kita H.S.) - 16:42.30
10. Mirai Sakamoto (Shiga Gakuen H.S.) - 16:42.47

Men's 5000 m Heat 14
1. Haruki Niizuma (Nishiwaki Kogyo H.S.) - 13:49.59
2. Ojiro Honda (Tottori Johoku H.S.) - 13:56.87
3. Kain Inagaki (Rakunan H.S.) - 13:57.82
4. Rikuto Iketani (Komazawa H.S.) - 13:58.32
5. Junsei Murakami (Tottori Johoku H.S.) - 13:58.87
6. Kota Tamura (Kansai Soka H.S.) - 13:59.74
7. Shinta Igarashi (Suijo H.S.) - 14:00.01
8. Sota Iihoshi (Chiben College H.S.) - 14:03.31
9. Koki Niizuma (Nishiwaki Kogyo H.S.) - 14:04.20
10. Kyosuke Murao (Josai Univ.) - 14:09.64

© 2025 Brett Larner, all rights reserved

Buy Me A Coffee

 
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Most-Read This Week

Everything You Need to Know About the 2026 Hakone Ekiden

The Hakone Ekiden is the world's biggest road race, 2 days of road relay action with Japan's 20 best university teams racing 10 half marathon-scale legs from central Tokyo to the mountains east of Mount Fuji and back. The level just keeps going higher and higher , hitting the point this year where there are teams with 10-runner averages of 13:33.10 for 5000 m, 27:55.98 for 10000 m, and 1:01:20 for the half marathon. It's never been better, and with great weather in the forecast it's safe to say this could be one of the best races in Hakone's 102-year history, especially on Day One. If you've seen it then you know NTV's live broadcast is the best sports broadcast in the world, with the pre-race show kicking off at 7:00 a.m. Japan time on the 2nd and 3rd and the race starting at 8:00 a.m. sharp. If you've got a VPN you should be able to watch it on TVer starting at 7:50 a.m. on the 2nd , and again at 7:50 a.m. on the 3rd . There's even a 2-hour high...
3 comments
Read more

Mashiko Breaks U20 5000 m NR - Weekend Track Roundup

Saturday's Kanakuri Memorial Meet in Kumamoto was the weekend's main event in Japanese track, but there were good results at the Nittai University Time Trials meet in Yokohama too. Emmanuel Maru (Toyota Boshoku) led the men's 5000 m A-heat at Kanakuri in 13:14.06, with Tomonori Yamaguchi (SGH) clocking the fastest Japanese time in 13:16.38 in his first race as a corporate leaguer. Waseda University duo Rui Suzuki and Yota Mashiko went 6-7 in 13:20.64 and 13:22.87, the 18-year-old Mashiko shaving 0.04 off the U20 NR. In 8th, Yamato Yoshii (Toyota) ran a PB of 13:23.92. 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura (Subaru) continued to struggle after a weak indoor season, finishing 18th of 20 finishers in 13:45.10. 19-year-old Festus Kimorwo (Kurosaki Harima) was under 13:20 in the B-heat too, winning in a 13:19.59 PB. 2 more collegiate men broke 13:30, Daichi Fujita (Chuo Univ.) 8th in 13:28.93 and Riki Koike (Soka Univ.) 9th in 13:29.09. The top 6 in the men's 800 m A-hea...
Post a Comment
Read more

Australian YouTuber Handed Lifetime Ban by Ageo City Half Marathon After Running 1:06 with Another Runner's Bib (updated)

After discussion with their race's chief JAAF referee, on Nov. 27 the organizers of the Ageo City Half Marathon handed down a lifetime ban from their event against 36-year-old Australian Matt Inglis Fox  for running the Nov. 15 race wearing the bib number of another JAAF-registered runner. The incident came to light after Fox posted on his personal Instagram account that he had run a PB of 1:06:33 and finished 203rd in Ageo with a 10 km split of 31:03, along with photos and video of himself in the race wearing a bib number beginning with 11. Fox did not appear in the results by name or in that time or place, the closest match being a 1:06:54 gross, 1:06:50 net finish time with a 31:21 10 km split for 18th place in the JAAF-registered division and 209th overall by bib number 1129, registered to a non-Japanese Tokyo-resident club runner. The club runner, Harrisson Uk , readily confirmed that he had given his bib to Fox, saying, "I gave my number to Matt. It wasn't me."...
81 comments
Read more