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Onishi, Takezawa and Sugihara Win in East Asian Games, Kano and Miyauchi 2-3 in Women's Half (updated)

translated and edited by Brett Larner Update: The IAAF has a series of articles summarizing each day of the East Asian Games including the medalists in each event. Click for Day One (800 m, 20 km RW), Day Two (M 5000 m, W 10000 m, W 3000 mSC), Day Three (1500 m, M 10000 m) and Day Four (Half marathon, M 3000 mSC, W 5000 m). Tomoya Onishi on the way to the win in Hong Kong. Click picture for sanspo.com's East Asian Games photo gallery. The East Asian Games Half Marathon took place Dec. 13 in Hong Kong. 22 year-old Tomoya Onishi (Team Asahi Kasei) won the gold medal in the sprint-finish men's race in a time of 1:06:05. World Championships women's marathon 7th place finisher Yuri Kano (Second Wind AC) was 2nd in the women's half marathon in 1:12:03 with teammate Yoko Miyauchi (Team Kyocera) close behind in 3rd. Kano lacked her usual frontrunning race pattern, losing out to a North Korean athlete on the last lap of the track. "That wasn't how I wanted to race,...

Ndambiri Goes Under 27 Again at East Japan Corporate Championships

by Brett Larner Two weeks after becoming the first man to break 27 minutes for 10000 m on Japanese soil at the May 3 Shizuoka International meet, Kenyan Josephat Ndambiri (Team Komori Corp.) repeated the feat in gusty winds on the first day of the East Japan Jitsugyodan Track and Field Meet in Yamagata Prefecture, clocking a meet record of 26:58.40. Ndambiri now holds the two fastest times in the world so far this year for 10000 m. Runner-up Gideon Ngatuny (Team Nissin Shokuhin) just missed out on breaking 27 minutes, running a 10 second PB of 27:01.83 and likewise going under the meet record. Ngatuny faced tougher conditions of rain and wind the next day in the 5000 m and again came up 2nd in 13:19.41. He was beaten out by Ethiopian Yacob Jarso (Team Honda), whose winning time of 13:19.20 was both a PB and a new meet record. As in the 10000 m Ngatuny had the consolation of also being under the previous meet record. His new teammate Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin), just back from ...

Weekend Japanese Track Action Roundup

by Brett Larner The weekend of May 16-17 was the biggest of the year for Japanese track and field. Beyond the major regional university meet documented yesterday, six regional professional meets for members of Japanese corporate running world took place across the country. Below is a listing of top finishers in each of the distance events at the six Jitsugyodan meets. Click each meet header for complete results in Japanese. 2009 East Japan Jitsugyodan Track and Field Meet - Top Finishers Men's 10000 m 1. Josephat Ndambiri (Team Komori Corp.) - 26:58.40 - CR 2. Gideon Ngatuny (Team Nissin Shokuhin) - 27:01.83 - (CR) 3. Cyrus Njui (Team Hitachi Cable) - 28:40.99 Men's 5000 m 1. Yacob Jarso (Team Honda) - 13:19.20 - CR, PB 2. Gideon Ngatuny (Team Nissin Shokuhin) - 13:19.41 - (CR) 3. Jonathan Ndiku (Team Hitachi Cable) - 13:37.68 4. Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin) - 13:38.31 - (Japanese CR) Men's 3000 m SC 1. Masatoshi Kikuchi (Team Fujitsu) - 8:43.39 2. Tatsunori Shinoura (T...