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http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22862281/oakland-running-festival-attracts-about-9-100-runners 2010 world 100 km champion Shinji Nakadai  (Harriers AC) won Sunday's Oakland Running Festival marathon in 2:37:29.

by Brett Larner For the second-straight year, Shinji Nakadai  (Harriers AC) was the top Japanese man at the IAU 100 km World Championships, held this year in Winschoten, Netherlands.  The defending individual men's world champion, Nakadai made no attempt to follow the reckless early pace set by eventual winner Giorgio Calcaterra , who averaged as fast as 3:42/km in the first stages of the race.  Neither did any of the other athletes in the field, as Calcaterra took the world title by a margin of over 15 minutes.  The strong American squad kept three men in the top pack throughout the race and ended up taking the individual silver and bronze medals as well as team gold led by veteran Michael Wardian .  Nakadai faded after 80 km, taking 5th in 6:48:32, but thanks in large part to a solid 10th-place run by teammate Yoshiki Takada  Japan was able to nail down the team silver medal by just 1:51 over Calcaterra's Italy squad which went home with bronze. The w...

http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=spo_30&k=2011062600197 http://ws100.ultralive.net/webcast.php translated and edited by Brett Larner complete results coming soon Corporate team runner Kiyokatsu Hasegawa (Team JR Higashi Nihon) took his first win at Japan's premier ultra, the June 26 Saromako 100 km , running 6:31:06 to beat defending champion, Kenyan national record holder and double Olympic marathon medalist Erick Wainaina (Lights AC) and defending 100 km world champion Shinji Nakadai (Harriers AC). "It was pretty close," Hasegawa said after the race , "but I managed to win. This will help me as I get ready for a good run at the Hokkaido Marathon." Wainaina finished 3rd, with Nakadai 6th. Naomi Ochiai (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) won the women's race in 7:54:08. Across the Pacific, top-ranked trail runner Tsuyoshi Kaburaki , 42, ran a patient race at the Western States 100, advancing through the field late in the race to take 5th overall.

by Brett Larner Arata Fujiwara photo by Brett Larner This is the second of JRN's four-part year-end review. Click here to read the second part , a ranking of the top 10 Japanese women of 2010. Look for the third and fourth parts, the top 10 Japanese men and women of 2001-2010 and a look at the history and future of Japanese marathoning, early in the new year. To be honest, the Japanese man of the year should probably be either Shota Iizuka , the Chuo University first-year whose 4x100 m anchor leg at May's Kanto Regionals was heard 'round the world and who went on to win 200 m gold at the World Jr. Track and Field Championships, or Ichiro Suzuki , whose running abilities were critical in him scoring his tenth consecutive year of 200 major league hits, but as a distance running site JRN can only give them their due before turning to the long distance runners. Contrary to appearances, 2010 was an improvement over 2009. For the second year in a row only one man broke 2:1...

by Brett Larner If it's the first Sunday in December then at last it's time for the last first-rate marathon of the year on the worldwide calendar, the Fukuoka International Marathon. Overseas viewers should be able to watch the live Japanese television broadcast on TV Asahi 12:00-2:30 p.m. Japan time on Dec. 5 via Keyhole TV by clicking here . Scroll down to the bottom of this article for a field listing with bib numbers and links to course maps. Long Japan's most respected elite men's marathon, Fukuoka has stayed relevant in recent years by investing significant capital in bringing in one or two marquee athletes to deliver the goods with a supporting cast of top Japanese runners and second-tier internationals. Culminating in Ethiopian great Tsegay Kebede 's 2:05:18 course record last year, the last four years have seen world record holder Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia) and all three Beijing Olympics medalists, Samuel Wanjiru (Kenya), Jaouad Gharib (Morocco) and ...

http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=58696.html Tokyo-based men's winner Shinji Nakadai is one of my fellow coaches at the Harriers running club. 2010 I.A.U. 100 km World Championships Gibraltar, 11/7/10 Men click here for complete men's results 1. Shinji Nakadai (Japan) - 6:43:44 2. Jonas Buud (Sweden) - 6:47:40 3. Michael Wardian (U.S.A.) - 6:49:18 4. Noriyuki Araki (Japan) - 6:50:00 5. Oleksandr Holovnytskyy (Ukraine) - 6:51:03 Men's Teams 1. Japan - 20:32:21 2. U.S.A. - 20:46:04 3. France - 21:05:52 Women click here for complete women's results 1. Ellie Greenwood (GBR) - 7:29:05 2. Monica Carlin (Italy) - 7:30:50 3. Lizzy Hawker (GBR) - 7:33:26 4. Gloria Vinstedt (Sweden) - 7:37:06 5. Meghan Arbogast (U.S.A.) - 7:46:01 Women's Teams 1. GBR - 23:16:54 2. Italy - 23:47:11 3. Japan - 24:00:22

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by Brett Larner Click here for photos from the 100 km World Cup. Japan's Yasukazu Miyazato upset defending world champion Giorgio Calcaterra of Italy to take the men's 100 km title at the 2009 IAU 100 km World Cup in Belgium on June 19. The Japanese men likewise took the team title thanks to Masakazu Takahashi's 5th place and Mitsuru Shinohara's 11th place finishes. All three Japanese men broke the 7 hour mark, and the team's 4th and 5th men Toru Sakuta and Shinji Nakadai were both in the top 25. The course consisted of five loops of approximately 20 km each. Brazil's Marcio De Oliveira took the early lead, covering the first loop in 1:28:17. A chase pack including Miyazato, Takahashi, Calcaterra, Daniel Oralek of the Czech Republic and Italian Antonio Armuzzi sat nearly a minute back. On the second loop De Oliveira accelerated while Oralek and the two Japanese runners held a steady pace. The two Italians lost contact with the chase pack. By the end of the thi...

http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=48243.html 100km degli etruschi (1)- Campionato mondiale 2008 Uploaded by alterego62 The Japanese women's team finished 3rd behind Russia and the U.S.A. with two runners in the top eight. My Harriers teammate Shinji Nakadai, the runner at 0:59 in the video above, was the 4th Japanese finisher on the men's team. おめでとうございます。 The video and others at the same site were sent to me by a JRN reader. Thank you. Another reader sent this link to photos of the World Cup including two of the Japanese men. Thanks as well.