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青学優勝、そして 3連覇 おめでとうございます 😭 🎉 🥇 🎽 🏃🏻 今年も強すぎた … (;o;) #箱根駅伝 #箱根駅伝2017 #青学駅伝 pic.twitter.com/Bo23nJGGjh — m i s a k i (@m_k10__) January 3, 2017 by Brett Larner click here for Day One report Holding onto a slim 33-second lead from Day One , Aoyama Gakuin University became the fourth school in history to win all three university men's ekidens in a single season and the sixth to win Japan's most prestigious and popular race three years in a row as it held off rival Waseda University to take the 2017 Hakone Ekiden title. 【箱根駅伝 復路 2017.01.03】６区 小野田勇次 選手（青山学院大） pic.twitter.com/p4Bs2WEGMF — ▽ みさと (@run_nur07) January 3, 2017 With 109.6 km before them on the Day Two course, to have a chance of making up the 33-second deficit Waseda needed to stay in range of Aoyama Gakuin on the first leg of the day, the 20.8 km Sixth Stage with over 800 m elevation loss.  This was no easy task given that Aoyama Gakuin was running second-year Yuji Onoda , 2nd on the same sta...

by Brett Larner Toyo University fourth year Daisuke Matsunaga delivered the biggest result of the third day of competition at the 2016 Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships, breaking the men's 10000 m national university record by two seconds to win in 38:16.76.  Meet records also came in the D1 women's hammer throw and D1 men's pole vault, Hitomi Katsuyama (Tsukuba Univ.) breaking her own record by nearly two meters with a throw of 62.61 m and Koki Kuruma (Juntendo Univ.) clearing 5.40 m to tie the existing Kanto Regionals record. Kuruma's Juntendo teammate Kazuya Shiojiri returned from a 3rd-place finish as the top Japanese man in Thursday's D1 10000 m and the fastest time in the 3000 mSC heats on Friday to win the D1 3000 mSC final, just missing the 39-year-old meet record by 2 seconds to take first in 8:37.84.  Soyoka Segawa continued the Daito Bunka University domination of the women's steeple, claiming the title in 10:10.68. Th...