Tokai College, Toyo College and Soka College have been the favorites to take the highest 3 spots, with not less than 9 groups in rivalry for the remaining 4. Tokai was robust out of the gate, 2nd-year Hibiki Yoshida working a PB 28:59.50 to win Warmth 1 by over 45 seconds. Toyo’s Ren Umezaki was third in 29:49.77 and Soka’s Kaiya Yokoyama fifth in 29:50.51, and interspersed between them in an indication of issues to return have been Kanagawa College 1st-year Haruto Miyamoto and Daito Bunka College‘s Yugo Nishidai.
DBU’s Peter Wanjiru, the one Kenyan athlete to not run in Warmth 4, beat Toyo duo Takaya Kumazaki and Keishun Kushima to win Warmth 2 in 28:48.57, and with a PB from its different runner Yukihiro Otani DBU was in an unexpectedly robust place midway by means of the meet. Tokai and Soka dropped, neither Tokai runner clearing half-hour and Soka’s Ryo Yoshida working solely 30:24.01.
Warmth 3 was the slowest, however it had one other DBU runner, 4th-year Haruto Ono, out entrance with a 29:41.26 for the win. Kanagawa’s Atsuki Kobayashi and Atsushi Utsuno took 2nd and fifth, whereas Tokai and Toyo took hits with their 2nd runners each over half-hour. Kanagawa led the workforce standings after the third race, with solely 25 seconds separating fifth and ninth.
Soka 4th-year Philip Mulwa took Warmth 4 out laborious, main a pack of 9 Kenyans from totally different colleges to win in 28:21.68. Submit-race Mulwa was pleased, saying he’d been injured post-Hakone and that the win in his first race this season gave him a good suggestion of the place he stands in his health. He had extra purpose to be pleased when teammate Yudai Shimazu got here dwelling in 29:06.39, sealing Soka’s first-ever Nationals look.
Boniface Mulwa of Yamanashi Gakuin College was 2nd in 28:38.56 and Peter Kamau of Kokushikan College third in 28:44.66. Toyo’s Kazuki Matsuyama was the highest Japanese man at fifth in 28:52.36, main the chase pack behind Mulwa’s quick early tempo and stopping a breakaway problem from Tokai’s Yuto Kajitani.
When the workforce scores have been in Kanagawa was the shock winner in 3:57:35.80 by lower than 18 seconds, not profitable any particular person races however the one workforce with all 8 runners below half-hour. Toyo, a top-tier workforce working the qualifier for the primary time in 14 years after a foul race at Nationals final 12 months, was 2nd, with fellow pre-race favorites Soka and Tokai going 3-4 and DBU a stable fifth 25 seconds behind Tokai. Chuo Gakuin College was sixth, with Nihon College beating Josai College by 40 seconds to take the ultimate qualifying spot. Nihon Yakka College was a uncommon DNF when Kenyan 4th-year Noah Kiplimo slowed to a stroll, then dropped out of Warmth 4. All 7 groups qualifying groups now be a part of the 8 different Tokyo-area colleges that stuffed the rostrum ultimately 12 months’s Nationals and the perfect from the remainder of the nation at November’s primary occasion.
54th Nationwide College Males’s Ekiden Kanto Area Qualifier
Sagamihara Gion Stadium, Kanagawa, 19 June, 2022
workforce scores are cumulative instances for 8×10000 m
Crew Outcomes – high 7 qualify for Nationals
1. Kanagawa College – 3:57:35.80
2. Toyo College – 3:57:54.30
3. Soka College – 3:58:09.99
4. Tokai College – 3:58:10.86
5. Daito Bunka College – 3:58:36.05
6. Chuo Gakuin College – 3:58:48.82
7. Nihon College – 3:59:04.40
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8. Josai College – 3:59:44.33
9. Teikyo College – 4:00:05.07
10. Kokushikan College – 4:00:32.79
11. Rikkyo College – 4:01:03.46
12. Yamanashi Gakuin College – 4:01:08.38
13. Surugadai College – 4:01:19.69
14. Hosei College – 4:03:00.70
15. Nittai College – 4:05:07.57
16. Senshu College – 4:05:25.59
17. Jobu College – 4:06:42.50
18. Takushoku College – 4:08:18.49
19. Tokyo Nogyo College – 4:08:57.35
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DNF – Nihon Yakka College
Particular person Outcomes
Warmth 1
1. Hibiki Yoshida (2nd yr., Tokai Univ.) – 28:59.50 – PB
2. Haruto Miyamoto (1st yr., Kanagawa Univ.) – 29:45.40
3. Ren Umezaki (2nd yr., Toyo Univ.) – 29:49.77
4. Yugo Nishidai (2nd yr., Daito Bunka Univ.) – 29:50.12 – PB
5. Kaiya Yokoyama (4th yr., Soka Univ.) – 29:50.51
Warmth 2
1. Peter Wanjiru (2nd yr., Daito Bunka Univ.) – 28:48.57
2. Takaya Kumazaki (third yr., Toyo Univ.) – 29:29.31
3. Keishun Kushima (third yr., Toyo Univ.) – 29:41.49
4. Kaito Suetsugu (third yr., Teikyo Univ.) – 29:46.86
5. Shota Shimazaki (4th yr., Kanagawa Univ.) – 29:49.84
Warmth 3
1. Haruto Ono (4th yr., Daito Bunka Univ.) – 29:41.26
2. Atsuki Kobayashi (third yr., Kanagawa Univ.) – 29:44.53
3. Daisuke Kuwata (third yr., Soka Univ.) – 29:45.45
4. Tatsuya Matsuoka (4th yr., Nihon Univ.) – 29:45.99
5. Atsushi Utsuno (third yr., Kanagawa Univ.) – 29:47.29
Warmth 4
1. Philip Mulwa (4th yr., Soka Univ.) – 28:21.68
2. Boniface Mulwa (4th yr., Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.) – 28:38.56
3. Peter Kamau (2nd yr., Kokushikan Univ.) – 28:44.66
4. Godfrey Musanga (1st yr., Surugadai Univ.) – 28:47.58 – PB
5. Kazuki Matsuyama (third yr., Toyo Univ.) – 28:52.36
6. Toru Kubota (third yr., Daito Bunka Univ.) – 28:53.61
7. Yuto Kajitani (2nd yr., Tokai Univ.) – 28:57.56
8. Reishi Yoshida (2nd yr., Chuo Gakuin Univ.) – 28:58.47
9. Ryosuke Yamasaki (4th yr., Kanagawa Univ.) – 28:58.74 – PB
10. Charles Ndungu (4th yr., Nihon Univ.) – 28:58.75
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