At a web based govt board assembly on June 30, the KGRR made the choice to open up the October, 2023 Hakone Ekiden Yosenkai qualifying race to universities from throughout the nation in honor of the Hakone Ekiden’s a hundredth operating. The choice provides universities from exterior the Tokyo-centric Kanto Area the prospect to compete within the Hakone Ekiden centennial version on January 2 and three, 2024 in the event that they make the lower on the Yosenkai.
The Hakone Ekiden is historically solely open to college males’s groups from inside Kanto. Groups from different components of the nation must meet the identical standards as Kanto Area faculties as a way to participate within the qualifying race, the minimal of which is at the moment having at the least 10 athletes with 10,000 m bests beneath 34 minutes at licensed competitions.
There are precedents for universities from elsewhere within the nation to participate. Kansai College competed thrice in Hakone’s early historical past, and on the fortieth operating in 1964 each Ritsumeikan College and Fukuoka College ran. On the eightieth operating in 2004 a Nationwide College Choose Group made up of high collegiate athletes from throughout the nation took half.
Together with the choice to go nationwide, it was additionally determined to not have a Kanto Area College Choose Group for the a hundredth operating. No choices had been made relating to the a hundred and first operating and past. KGRR govt Masahito Ueda commented, “All the best way again to the primary operating, there was initially no intention of the Hakone Ekiden being restricted to Kanto. I would prefer to revisit that place to begin and take this chance to re-examine the Hakone Ekiden.”
Translator’s observe: No signal of the actually progressive step of getting a college ladies’s division on the a hundredth Hakone Ekiden being taken.
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