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2025 Ueda Sky Race Ueda, Nagano, 4 May 2025 26 km, 3050 elevation change Men 1. Ruy Uuda (Japan/Redbull) - 3:33:12 2. Tsubasa Fuji (Japan/Nnormal) - 3:52:31 3. Marcel Hoche (Germany/Adidas Terrex) - 3:55:53 4. Kesete Habtetsion (Eritrea) - 4:02:44 5. Shota Matsumoto (Japan/The North Face) - 4:06:05 6. Lucas Mouret (France/Inverse) - 4:08:05 7. Fujio Ichige (Japan/Skywolf Kyoto) - 4:08:11 8. Tomofumi Miyagawa (Japan/Merrell) - 4:08:16 9. Blake Turner (Australia/ADCO Cons.) - 4:10:24 10. John Ray Onifa (Philippines/T8) - 4:13:42 Women 1. Takako Takamura (Japan/Skywolf Kyoto) - 4:19:55 2. Iris Bessey (France/Scott) - 4:41:20 3. Suzuha Kusuda (Japan/Sky Kyoto) - 4:53:05 4. Nikola Matkova (Slovakia) - 4:53:19 5. Simone Brick (Australia/Salomon) - 5:07:00 6. Kaede Hayashi (Japan/Ssessionzz) - 5:17:43 7. Mami Saito (Japan) - 5:31:19 8. Chihiro Aibara (Japan/Merrell) - 5:31:45 9. Akari Samata (Japan) - 5:42:38 10. Rachel Hebaus (U.S.A./Hagan SkiMo) - 5:45:02

  The 77th running of the Fuji Mountain Race took place on July 26. In the long course summit race, 21 km with around 3000 m of climb from Fuji Yoshida city hall to the peak of Mount Fuji, Yuri Yoshizumi won the women's race in 3:13:08 and Ryunosuke Omi the men's race in 2:42:24.; In the women's race, last year's 2nd-placer Rieko Koshi led Yoshizumi by 19 seconds at the end of the road section at around 11.5 km. But on the trail section after that Yoshizumi passed her and built a winning lead to score her sixth Fuji Mountain Race title since 2017. 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016 winner Mina Ogawa was 2nd in 3:21:44, with Koshi hanging on to make the podium again in 3:25:02 for 3rd. Having won in his summit course debut last year, Omi was in the lead at the 11.5 km checkpoint. But by the Fifth Stage checkpoint he had been overtaken by Ruy Ueda and dropped two minutes behind. But Ueda, running the summit course for the first time, faded after hitting the steepest trail se...

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2019 Skyrunner World Series men's champ Ruy Ueda won both days of the Tsumagoi Skyrun , a new trail race held in the mountains of Gunma over the weekend with 41 men and 11 women starting each race individually at 30-second intervals. In Saturday's Vertical Race , elite entrants had to do two runs up a 3.8 km trail with 600 m of climb starting at 1470 m elevation, with their final finishing ranking based on the combined times from both runs. On his first attempt Ueda clocked 23:45, beating Mt. Kosha Vertical Kilometer winner Ryunosuke Omi by almost two minutes. On his second run he went even faster, clocking 23:01 to seal up 1st with a total time of 46:46. Omi was 2nd in 50:57, with Shoma Otagiri 3rd in 52:20. Skyrunning national team member Yuri Yoshizumi took the women's race, one of the few people in the elite race not to negative split as she opened with an aggressive 30:49 only to follow up in 31:20 for a total time of 1:02:09. Mt. Kosha winner Takako Takamur...

Races are starting to come back to Japan. Following last weekend's Smile Marathon , the Mt. Kosha Vertical Mile happened Saturday at the Kijimadaira Ski Area in Nagano. 65 men and 15 women raced the 4.5 km trail course climbing 880 m, with more in the junior high school and high school divisions and elementary school students taking on 1 and 2 km courses depending on their ages. To keep people properly distanced, runners started in 15-second intervals by expected finish time, fastest to slowest, according to a starting order published on the race website the day before the race, and scored by individual time. 高社山vertical。 トップ3のスタート！ ワタクシ自身も久々のレースを楽しめました♪ 大会スタッフの皆様、ありがとうございました‼️ pic.twitter.com/IRm80ScV25 — myz塾長 (@MMiyazima) June 27, 2020 In the open men's division, #3 seeded Ryunosuke Omi ran down #2 Naoto Baba and 2019 Skyrunner World Series champ Ruy Ueda  to take 1st in 30:22. Ueda held Baba off for 2nd in 31:23, with Baba keeping 3rd by 7 seconds in 32:26....