4 large races occur Sunday, and it is trying like solely considered one of them may escape the chilly rain that is forecast to hit a lot of the nation that morning. That will be Kyoto’s Biwako Cross Nation meet, the lesser cousin of Fukuoka’s Nationwide Cross Nation Championships three weeks later however nonetheless filling an vital gap within the calendar left by the demise of the Chiba Cross Nation meet. Biwako attracts a number of company groups and high excessive colleges like Wacoal and Toyokawa H.S., however its primary declare to fame is because the Nationwide Junior Excessive College Cross Nation Championships. Full entry lists right here.
Within the coronary heart of Yokohama’s industrial zone Sunday is considered one of two large half marathons, the
Kanagawa Half Marathon and 10 km. Prime-tier collegiate runners will likely be headed for Marugame, on which extra later, however quite a lot of the colleges that ran final month’s Hakone Ekiden will ship large contingents from their rosters of alternates and B-tier runners, and that at all times makes it one of many super-deep races of the season. Count on to see heavy illustration by Hakone high two
Aoyama Gakuin College and
Komazawa College,
Tokai College,
Meiji College,
Nihon College and extra,
The
Kagawa Marugame Worldwide Half Marathon in Kagawa would be the larger deal, the house of the Japanese males’s nationwide file and at all times with top-of-the-line half marathon fields of the yr in Japan.
Sheila Chepkirui,
Pauline Kamulu and
Dolphine Omare lead the ladies’s race this time, the place essentially the most thrilling storyline could be the debuts of 5000m/10000m all-time JPN #2
Ririka Hironaka and #1 excessive schooler
Caroline Kariba (Kamimura Gakuen H.S.).
Alexander Mutiso vs.
Charles Langat vs.
Cleophas Kandie is one other good race ready to occur within the males’s race, and regardless of the anticipated rain hopes are excessive that Komazawa’s
Kotaro Shinohara will come by means of with Japan’s first-ever sub-60 half marathon after operating 1:00:11 final yr.
Sondre Moen and
Brett Robinson are each within the race too, and 42-year-old
Ser-Od Bat-Ochir will likely be making an attempt to higher his 1:02:10 Mongolian NR after a 1:02:53 tuneup final weekend in Osaka. BS-Fuji may have the stay broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. native time.
Entry checklist information right here.
Final up is the
Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon in Oita. Beppu-Oita does not issue into consideration for the Paris Olympic group, however whereas which means there is not quite a lot of top-tier expertise it is nonetheless received area on the 2:06-2:08 degree, with internationals
Mohamed Reda El Aaraby,
Hicham Laqouahi and
Aychew Bantie main home males
Fumihiro Maruyama,
Yuta Koyama,
Yuta Shimoda,
Kazuya Azegami,
Ryo Osaki and
Yuichi Yasui. Canadian
Ben Preisner can be within the area, hoping to trip the deep pack to one thing a tier up from his 2:11:47 on the Oregon World Championships, and Hakone Ekiden Ninth Stage winner
Genta Kuramoto of general champ Aoyama Gakuin will likely be making his marathon debut. TBS has the stay TV broadcast beginning at 11:50 a.m. native time Sunday. Proper now it does not appear like TVer will stream the published, however we’ll replace something new that comes up.
Entry lists right here.
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