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  https://www.irunfar.com/2023-trail-world-championships-80k-results-victories-all-around-for-france Honoka Akiyama had the best performance by a Japanese athlete at the 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, running as high as 5th in the women's 80 km long race, dropping to 13th near halfway, then coming back to take 9th in 12:01:23. Ignoring early front-running by his teammates, Koken Ogasawara started around 50th and moved up progressively through the field to finish as the top Japanese man in 30th in 11:04:57. Complete results .

Part of the 2022 Skyrunner Japan Series (SJS), the Ueda Vertical Race and Ueda Sky Race took place May 3 and 4 in Ueda, Nagano. Put on by the Japan Skyrunning Association, SJS is the peak of the domestic mountain running circuit. Founded in 2015 and now in its 8th season, the series has made a fresh start with the Swiss company Norqain as its official timekeeper. The first day of racing featured the Ueda Vertical Race, 5 km with 1000 m of climb. Honoka Akiyama won the women's race in 54:31, Karen Kobayashi taking 2nd and Suzuha Kusuda (Team Sky Kyoto) 3rd. In the men's race Ryunsoke Omi (Team Sky Kyoto) took the top spot in 43:47, with Tomofumi Miyagawa 2nd and Miki Ushida 3rd. The 2021 National Sky Champion, Akiyama joined last year's SJS during its 2nd half. Ueda was her 5th win, 3 of which came in Vertical Kilometer races. "I'd been targeting the course record of 49:54 (set in 2017 by Yuri Yoshizumi ), but I wasn't even close," she said post-race...