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Chugoku Jitsugyodan Long Distance Time Trials Miyoshi Sports Park, Hiroshima, 9/17/11 click here for complete results Women's 5000 m 1. Yoshie Kurisu (Team Tenmaya) - 15:56.39 2. Rei Ohara (Team Tenmaya) - 16:21.30 3. Yurika Nakamura (Team Tenmaya) - 16:22.40 4. Kaori Urata (Team Tenmaya) - 16:32.17 5. Miku Kugio (Team Tenmaya) - 17:14.77 Men's 5000 m 1. Charles Ndirangu (Kenya/Sera H.S.) - 13:43.50 2. Takaya Iwasaki (Team Shikoku Denryoku) - 14:08.47 3. Ryo Matsumoto (Team Shikoku Denryoku) - 14:10.47 4. Kazuo Ietani (Team Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) - 14:10.65 5. Akihiko Tsumurai (Team Mazda) - 14:12.81 6. Takehiro Deki (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 14:13.43 Women's 3000 m 1. Susan Wylim (Kenya/Sera H.S.) - 9:06.79 2. Yoko Aizu (Team Shikoku Denryoku) - 9:28.22 3. Shoko Mori (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 9:28.97 4. Miho Ihara (Team Shikoku Denryoku) - 9:36.34 5. Ayaka Inoue (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 9:38.87 2011 Kinki Regional High School Youth Track and Field Champ...

by Brett Larner The spring regional corporate track and field championship season began May 8 with the first day of the Chugoku Jitsugyodan Track and Field Championships, the regional meet for central Japan. Each of the regional meets throughout the country is spread over two consecutive weekends, with the Chugoku region's men's and women's 5000 m the first events to take place. Many of the biggest names sat the races out in favor of the May 9 Sendai International Half Marathon and next weekend's 10000 m, leaving easy wins for Kenyans Joseph Gitau (Team JFE Steel) and Danielle Filomena Cheyech (Team Uniqlo). 2010 Chugoku Jitsugyodan T&F Championships - Top Finishers click here for complete results Men's 5000 m 1. Joseph Gitau (Kenya/Team JFE Steel) - 13:49.85 2. Takuya Ishikawa (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 13:50.70 3. Akihiko Tsumurai (Team Mazda) - 13:50.94 4. Naoki Okamoto (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 13:52.30 5. Tetsuya Sasaki (Team Chudenko) - 14:04.15 Women's...

http://mainichi.jp/enta/sports/general/track/news/20100125k0000m050090000c.html translated by Brett Larner At the last major women's ekiden of the season, the 21st Kita-Kyushu Women's Invitational Ekiden on Jan. 24 in Kita-Kyushu, Team Tenmaya won the five-stage, 32.8 km open division for the first time in 15 years. Top-ranked Kojokan H.S. took its first win the six-stage, 32.8 km high school division. Both teams hail from Okayama Prefecture and carried over the momentum from Okayama's win at last week's National Interprefectural Women's Ekiden. Tenmaya's Second Stage runner Yuka Izumi took the lead which Third and Fourth Stage runners Yoshie Kurisu and Kaori Urata lengthened with stage best runs. Tenmaya's anchor, Beijing Olympian Yurika Nakamura , was never seriously threatened as she cruised home for the win. Team Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo took 2nd after advancing in the later stages, while early leader Team Juhachi Ginko fell to 3rd. Team Acom, which w...

by Brett Larner After failing to even qualify for the 2007 All-Japan Jitsugyodan Women's Ekiden , Team Toyota Jidoshoki scored a surprise win over defending champion Team Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo at this year's national championship ekiden in Gifu Prefecture. Toyota Jidoshoki, one of two teams in the ekiden coached by Yoshio Koide, had only previously qualified once and was missing its star runner Yuriko Kobayashi, whom Rikuren banned from competing in jitsogyodan events after her enrollment in university last year. Neverthless, strong performances from the entire team, particularly anchor Aya Nagata's stage best run, were enough to unseat Team Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo. Team Panasonic's 17 year old Christie Muyanga, the 2008 World Junior 3000 m steeplechase champion, ran away from the field on the ekiden's 6.6 km 1st stage. She faded in the final 600 m and was almost overtaken by the chase pack which included 2008 International Chiba Ekiden Japanese national team anchor M...