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by Brett Larner 2010 National T&F Championships - Top Finishers click here for complete results Men's 1500 m - final 1. Yasunori Murakami (Team Fujitsu) - 3:45.76 2. Masahiro Takaya (Team JR Higashi Nihon) - 3:45.81 3. Yuichiro Ueno (Team S&B) - 3:46.15 Women's 1500 m - final 1. Mika Yoshikawa (Team Panasonic) - 4:18.68 2. Saori Yamashita (Team Hokuren) - 4:19.91 3. Yukari Nomura (Chuo Univ.) - 4:20.98 Women's 400 m - final 1. Chisato Tanaka (Fukuoka Univ.) - 54.46 2. Sayaka Aoki (Team Natureal) - 54.56 3. Asami Chiba (Team Natureal) - 54.64 Men's 200 m - final (+1.2 m/s wind) 1. Kenji Fujimitsu (Team Seiren) - 20.38 - PB 2. Mitsuhiro Abiko (Tsukuba Univ.) - 20.74 3. Shinji Takahira (Team Fujitsu) - 20.80 Women's 100 m - final (+0.9 m/s wind) 1. Chisato Fukushima (Hokkaido HiTec AC) - 11.30 2. Momoko Takahashi (Heisei Kokusai Univ.) - 11.39 3. Mayumi Watanabe (Team Natureal) - 11.66 Men's 3000 mSC - final 1. Tsuyoshi Takeda (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 8:47...

by Brett Larner In the grand prix events on day two of the 2010 Hyogo Relay Carnival , Bukkyo Univ. third-year Hikari Yoshimoto showed that her anchor stage win at last November's International Chiba Ekiden was no fluke as she nearly ran down winner Kayoko Fukushi (Team Wacoal) in the women's 10000 m and set a new national university record in the process. Fukushi, the 3000 m, 5000 m and half marathon national record holder, won in a solid 31:29.03. Yoshimoto, in her first track 10000 m, was just steps behind in 31:30.92, a time which broke the 15 year-old Japanese university record and which would have put her in the top 20 worldwide last year. The pair outran top-ranked Kenyan Doricah Obare (Team Hitachi), who was 3rd in a PB of 31:37.07. The trio's times were the 2nd, 3rd and 4th-fastest in the world so far this year and no other women broke 32:15, making Yoshimoto's debut all the more impressive. In the men's 10000 m John Thuo (Kenya/Team Toyota) outkicked J...