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Takekawa Hosei univ. 5m60 7lefts #boutakachannel #polevault pic.twitter.com/WCuSQ6Qfmr — Boutaka Channel (@BoutakaChannel) May 26, 2018 A great D1 men's pole vault brought most of the entertainment value to the thid day of the 97th Kanto Region University Track and Field Championships Saturday at Sagamihara Gion Stadium in the back corners of the Kanagawa badlands. Kosei Takekawa (Hosei Univ.) cleared 5.60 m to set a new Kanto Regionals meet record, beating Kanto Region record holder Masaki Ejima (Nihon Univ.) who could only clear 5.50 m this time out the gate. The D1 men's 3000 mSC final was also solid, with Takekawa's teammate Ryoma Aoki (Hosei Univ.) running a PB 8:42.11 for the win over Tsubasa Komuro (Toyo Univ.), whose 8:43.62 was a school record. For comparison, at almost the same time the U.S.-based Yusuke Uchikoshi (Boise State Univ.) and Takeshi Okada (UC Berkeley) ran only 8:48.03 and 9:10.41 at the NCAA West Preliminary Round meet in Sacram...

Stanford Invitational Palo Alto, U.S.A., 3/30/18 click here for complete results Women's 10000 m Invitational 1. Gwen Jorgensen (Bowerman TC) - 31:55.68 2. Carrie Dimoff (Bowerman TC) - 31:57.85 3. Karissa Schweizer (Missouri) - 32:00.55 4. Alice Wright (New Mexico) - 32:15.73 5. Sharon Lokedi (Kansas) - 32:21.19 ----- 18. Misaki Hayashida (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 33:46.16 Men's 5000 m Invitational 1. Zach Long (Tennessee) - 13:39.22 2. Luc Bruchet (Canada) - 13:39.62 3. Tyler Day (Northern Arizona) - 13:40.22 4. Cole Rockhold (Colorado St.) - 13:40.29 5. George Parsons (Adidas) - 13:40.37 ------ 8. Shota Onizuka (Tokai Univ.) - 13:43.54 11. Hayato Seki (Tokai Univ.) - 13:51.45 Men's 3000 m SC Invitational 1. Yusuke Uchikoshi (Boise State) - 8:38.32 2. Matt Owens (BYU) - 8:39.41 3. Daniel Carney (BYU) - 8:42.17 4. Jamaine Coleman (Eastern Kentucky) - 8:42.21 5. Jacob Heslington (BYU) - 8:43.41 ----- 11. Ryohei Sakaguchi (Tokai Univ.) - 9:01.34 ...

by Brett Larner Corporate and university meets led the way in the first of three straight weekends of regional track action.  At the Chubu Region Corporate Track and Field Championships Kenyan Rodgers Chumo Kemoi (Team Aisan Kogyo) led the top three under 28 minutes, winning in 27:54.19. Returning to the track after a quality 2:10:39 debut at February's Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon, Minato Oishi (Team Toyota) was the fastest Japanese man in the race, running 28:31.28 for 4th. Silas Laikong (Team Aichi Seiko) won the Chubu men's 5000 m in 13:45.59, but the fastest time of the weekend came at the season's first Shizuoka Long Distance Time Trials meet, where Ethiopian teammates Abiyot Abinet and Yeneblo Biyazen (Team Yachiyo Kogyo) went 1-2 in 13:36.08 and 13:36.20. Downhill specialist Yuji Onoda led a large contingent from Hakone Ekiden champ Aoyama Gakuin University , 3rd overall in 13:58.05. The women's 3000 m in Shizuoka also saw teammates sweep the front...

by Brett Larner 2017 national corporate road 10 km champion Yui Fukuda (Team Toyota Jidoshokki) dominated the women's 5000 m A-heat at Friday's Mt. SAC Relays, winning by 16 seconds in a PB of 15:23.48.  Her first time going under 15:30, Fukuda's time was a big step forward in quality but came up painfully short of the 15:22.00 standard for August's London World Championships. Running for Boise State University, the U.S.-based Yusuke Uchikoshi also ran Mt. SAC, turning up in the collegiate 3000 m steeplechase.  Part of a three-way sprint finish, Uchikoshi came up 0.56 seconds short of the win as Emmanuel Rotich (Tulane Univ.) took the top spot in 8:48.32.  Uchikoshi was next in 8:48.88, just holding off Clayson Shumway (BYU) who was 3rd in 8:48.95. Mt. SAC Relays El Camino College, U.S.A., 4/13~15/17 click here for complete results Women's 5000 m INV Elite 1. Yui Fukuda (Toyota Jidoshokki) - 15:23.48 - PB 2. Jessica Tonn (Brooks Beasts) - 15:39.46 3...

INSTANT HIGHLIGHT: Watch the Finish of the #MWXC Men's 8K https://t.co/a1iJL8Cu7P pic.twitter.com/9826hfLiwe — Mountain West (@MountainWest) October 28, 2016 http://www.themw.com/news/boise-state-men-and-new-mexico-women-take-home-team-titles-at-mountain-west-cross-country-championships-10-28-2016 Yusuke Uchikoshi (3rd yr., Boise State Univ.) won the Oct. 28 Mountain West XC Championships 8.0 km individual title in 23:48.80.  His win is likely the first NCAA conference XC title for a Japanese athlete.   Click here for complete results .  Uchikoshi ran 13:59.90 for 5000 m in high school before going to the U.S. for university.  His father Tadao Uchikoshi was 2nd in the 1991 Amsterdam Marathon and 5th in the 1993 Stuttgart World Championships marathon.  More footage and interview in the video below starting at 2:05. #MWN Recap by @Stormy_MWN : @BroncoSportsXC men and @Lobo_Track women take home titles at 2016 #MWXC Championships pic.twitter.com/...

by Brett Larner updated 1/19/13 with start list The partner event to last weekend's National Women's Ekiden, the final men's championship ekiden of the season takes place this Sunday with the 18th National Men's Ekiden in Hiroshima.  Like the women's event, the National Men's Ekiden features 47 teams from each of Japan's prefectures made up of top junior high school, high school, university and corporate-league runners.  Although there is less cross-division competition than in the National Women's Ekiden, the three high school stages and two junior high school stages in the National Men's Ekiden have often been the site of the first national appearance of future stars while the 8.5 km Third Stage and 13.0 km anchor stage always feature the rare sight of the top New Year Ekiden pros and Hakone Ekiden collegiate runners going head to head.  The National Men's Ekiden is broadcast live nationwide and commercial-free on NHK starting at 12:15 p....

Barcelona, 7/10/12 click here for complete results Men's 10000 m 1. Yigrem Demelash (Ethiopia) - 28:16.07 - PB 2. Philemon Kipchilis Cheboi (Kenya) - 28:23.98 - PB 3. Geoffrey Kipkorir Kirui (Kenya) - 28:30.47 4. Kinde Atanaw (Ethiopia) - 28:53.02 5. Moses Martin Kurong (Uganda) - 29:06.87 6. Kenta Murayama (Japan) - 29:40.56 7. Ken Yokote (Japan) - 29:41.81 Women's 3000 m 1. Mercy Chebwogen (Kenya) - 9:08.88 - PB 2. Hiwot Gebrekidan (Ethiopia) - 9:09.27 - PB 3. Emelia Gorecka (Great Britain) - 9:09.43 - PB 4. Haftamnesh Tesfay (Ethiopia) - 9:10.02 - PB 5. Brillian Jepkorir Kipkoech (Kenya) - 9:14.32 - PB ----- 8. Miyuki Uehara (Japan) - 9:21.81 17. Misuzu Nakahara (Japan) - 9:49.84 Men's 1500 m Heat Three 1. Teklit Teweldebrhan (Eritrea) - 3:46.46 - Q 2. Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich (Kenya) - 3:46.54 - Q 3. Abdelhadi Labali (Morocco) - 3:46.75 - Q 4. Charlie Grice (Great Britain) - 3:47.05 5. Yusuke Uchikoshi (Japan) - 3:49.06 Women's 800 m He...

by Brett Larner The 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships kick off today in Barcelona, Spain.  Ethiopia and Kenya look set to dominate most of the middle and long distance events with competition from Morocco and Eritrea and athletes from a scattering of other countries including Japan. Japan's best distance medal chance looks to be in the women's 3000 m, where Miyuki Uehara  comes in as the #1 seed with a PB over three seconds better than her nearest competitor, Emelia Gorecka  of Great Britain.  After Great Britain's Laura Muir Uehara's teammate Misuzu Nakahara  is the #4 seed with a best of 9:15.04, giving Japan a decent chance of picking up at least one medal in the event.  But with the next four athletes holding bests within less than two seconds of Nakahara and all hailing from Ethiopia and Kenya it won't be easy.   #3 and #5-ranked Shiori Yano  and Moe Kyuma  likewise stand a chance of hardware in the women's 5000 m, with Ethiopia...

2011 World Youth Games - Day Five Japanese Results Lille, France, 7/10/11 click here for complete results Boys' 3000 m Final 1. William Malel Sitonik (Kenya) - 7:40.10 - MR 2. Patrick Mutunga Mwikya (Kenya) - 7:40.47 - PB 3. Abrar Osman Adem (Eritrea) - 7:40.89 - PB ----- 9. Yuki Hirota (Japan) - 8:13.65 - PB 10. Yusuke Uchikoshi (Japan) - 8:14.91 - PB Boys' 200 m Final 1. Stephen Newbold (Bahamas) - 20.89 - PB 2. O'Dail Todd (Jamaica) - 21.00 - PB 3. Ronald Darby (U.S.A.) - 21.08 ----- 4. Akiyuki Hashimoto (Japan) - 21.21 Boys' Sprint Medley Relay Final 1. U.S.A. - 1.49.47 2. Japan - 1:50.69 - PB 3. France - 1:51.81 - PB Boys' Pole Vault Final 1. Robert Renner (Slovenia) - 5.25 m - PB 2. Melker Svard Jacobsson (Sweden) - 5.15 m 3. Jacob Blankenship (U.S.A.) - 5.05 m ----- 9. Ryohei Noda (Japan) - 4.80 m (c) 2011 Brett Larner all rights reserved

by Brett Larner On the second day of the 2011 IAAF World Youth Championships , top-seeded sprinter Kazuma Oseto  delivered Japan's first medal of the games, winning silver in the boys' 100 m.  Oseto came to the Championships with the fastest PB in the field, but after a shaky semifinal he was just clipped in the final by Jamaica's O'dail Todd , who ran a PB 10.51 to win gold over Oseto's 10.52. Michael-Meba Zeze  of France rounded out the medals with a 10.57 for bronze.  The only other Japanese athlete of the day to make a final, Ai Yamauchi , finished last in the women's javelin throw where Germany's Christin Hussong threw a meet record 59.74 m for gold. In semi-final, heat and qualification round action, both Yuki Hirota  and Yusuke Uchikoshi  ran PBs to advance to the boys' 3000 m final on time, each finishing 5th in his heat.  Hurdlers Aya Takizawa , Shota Madokoro ,  Takahiro Matsumoto  and Takumi Takahata  likewise ran PBs to m...

by Brett Larner click here to watch the IAAF World Youth Championships live online The IAAF World Youth Championships get underway tomorrow, July 6, in Lille, France. As is to be expected, Japan's best medal chances among its team of 37 come in the sprints and long distances. Kazuma Oseto (Ogura Higashi H.S.) comes to the boys' 100 m as the #1 seed, his PB of 10.39 leading the field. His teammates Kazuya Tsukamoto (Heisei H.S.) and Tatsuro Suwa (Yotsukaichi Kogyo H.S.) are also in the top eight on the entry list by PB, making the chances of at least one medal very good. All three runners are also on the list for the sprint medley relay, where the Japanese team is ranked 4th by a slim margin behind South Africa. Akiyuki Hashimoto (Sensatsu Seishukan H.S.) is ranked 3rd in the men's 200 m with a best of 20.91, Oseto and Suwa entered to double with marks not far off Hashimoto's. In the girls' 100 m Anna Doi (Saitama Sakae H.S.) is ranked 3rd by PB, 11.6...

by Brett Larner American Jason Lehmkuhle in a sprint finish against Toyoyuki Abe meters before winning the 2011 Ome 30 km. Jason Lehmkuhle won a tight sprint finish over Team NTT Nishi Nihon's Toyoyuki Abe at the 2011 Ome 30 km Road Race to become the first American to win the prestigious race since Greg Meyer 's 1983 victory. Lehmkuhle was aggressive throughout the race, leading the field of over 15000 through the early kilometers and remaining at the head of the pack over the difficult ups and downs through the middle 20 km. The pack, initially nine-strong, whittled down to a core of five by halfway. With roughly 5 km to go Lehmkuhle surged, first dropping eventual 4th-placer Atsushi Ikawa (Team Otsuka Seiyaku), then frequent leader Ryotaro Nitta (Team Konica Minolta). Local boy Daisuke Shimizu (Team Kanebo) was the next to fall, leaving only Abe at Lehmkuhle's side. The pair rounded the final righthand corner together with Lehmkuhle on the inside, and in the last sp...

by Brett Larner Unknown high schooler Risa Shibuya of Hanawa H.S. in the northern city of Akita turned in one of the biggest performances in the 2010 National Sports Festival on the final day of competition on Oct. 5 in Chiba. Running in the high school girls' 3000 m, Shibuya trounced 2010 Asian Junior 3000 m champion Mahiro Akamatsu (Kojokan H.S.) by over 6 seconds to win in 9:08.07, the second-fastest time of the year by a Japanese woman behind only 1500 m national record holder Yuriko Kobayashi (Team Toyota Jidoshoki). Shibuya's performance would have put her in 2nd place at last weekend's National Corporate Championships ahead of world-ranked Ethiopian ace Betelhem Moges (Team Denso). With most of the top high school boys opting for the 5000 m the high school boys' 3000 m was relatively unremarkable, won in 8:25.76 by Yusuke Uchikoshi (Kokugakuin Prep Kugayama H.S.). Update: This article reports that Shibuya is a 3rd year who for the last two years placed in t...