Japan’s outside monitor season received transferring with Saturday’s Kanakuri Memorial Meet in Kumamoto. Largely geared towards organising probabilities for individuals to hit qualifying marks for this season’s Nationwide Championships, the day’s largest race was the males’s 1500 m. NR holder Kazuki Kawamura (Toenec) was a late scratch, however on the beginning line had been all-time JPN #2 Nanami Arai (Honda), U20, U18 and HS NR holder Keita Sato in his debut sporting the Komazawa College uniform, 3000 mSC NR holder Ryuji Miura (Juntendo Univ.), indoor 5000 m NR holder Hyuga Endo (Sumitomo Denko) and extra of Japan’s finest.
Sato spent a lot of the race up entrance, going by the primary three laps in 56-1:55-2:55, whereas Endo hung again till the bell. Going proper previous the lead group, Endo had a lead of just about 2 seconds over Arai with 200 m to go. However within the dwelling straight Miura launched an unimaginable kick that simply received Endo on the line. Miura clocked 3:36.59, good for all-time JPN #2 at 1.17 sec off Kawamura’s NR, and the fastest-ever by a Japanese-born school runner, with Endo throughout in 3:36.69 for all-time JPN #3. Endo was so stunned at getting caught that he simply laughed and shook his head in amazement at Miura’s end.
Having simply turned 20 Miura nonetheless plans to maintain the steeple as his major focus, however with vary from this run to the Asian U20 half marathon report already underneath his belt as we speak’s run bolstered that he is the Japanese man to observe within the subsequent few years, no matter he decides to do.
The
highschool ladies’ 3000 m and
ladies’s 5000 m each noticed new meet information c/o Japan-based Kenyans. Within the 3000,
Caroline Kariba (Kamimura Gakuen H.S.) took nearly 15 seconds off the previous report to win in 8:53.56 over 27 seconds forward of 2nd place. Within the 5000, prime two
Tabitha Njeri Kamau (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) and
Helen Ekalale (Toyota Jidoshokki) each cleared the meet report on 15:04.9 set approach earlier than both of them was born again in 1994. Kamau took the highest spot in 15:03.51, with Ekalale subsequent in 15:03.94.
That wasn’t even the closest end of the day. Within the
males’s 10000 m,
Evans Keitany (Toyota Boshoku) and
Tatsuhiko Ito (Honda) dueled over an unimaginable 55-second final lap to complete simply 0.02 aside. Keitany received the win in 27:42.46, with the highest 8 breaking 28 minutes together with NR holder
Akira Aizawa (Asahi Kasei), fifth in 27:45.26 in a comeback run from damage, and final 12 months’s prime Japanese half marathoner
Takashi Ichida (Asahi Kasei), eighth in 27:48.22. Japan’s third-best 10000 m runner
Kazuki Tamura (Sumitomo Denko) made a tentative comeback from an extended damage of his personal, ending twenty second in 29:48.64.
The
ladies’s 10000 m had one other comeback run, with Tokyo Olympics marathoner
Ayuko Suzuki (Japan Publish) making an attempt to hit the 32:30.00 customary to get into subsequent month’s 10000 m Nationwide Championships. Suzuki fell off early, in the end ending third in 33:07.41, with steeple specialist
Yumi Yoshikawa (Uniqlo) chopping over a minute off her PB for the win however coming in simply wanting the usual in 32:32.83. Publish-race Yoshikawa stated that she plans to run her marathon debut inside the subsequent 12 months and shall be aiming to qualify for the MGC Olympic trials race.
18-year-old
Benson Kiplangat (Subaru) took the highest spot within the
males’s 5000 m in 13:16.48 to steer the highest three underneath 13:20.
Ren Tazawa (Komazawa Univ.) was the highest Japanese man, taking fifth in 13:22.60.
Fujitsu teammates
Kiseki Shiozawa and
Kazuya Shiojiri had been the one different Japanese males underneath 13:40, Shiozawa seventh in 13:31.31 and Shiojiri ninth in 13:37.77.
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