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Final entry lists are out for the inaugural World Road Running Championships on 1st October - https://worldathletics.org/news/pres...d-wrrc-riga-23
I'm confused though by the large entry lists for the Mile and 5km when it says in WA's document that there were quotas of 12 and 20 athletes per race respectively.
On the timetable there's no sign of them having heats - https://worldathletics.org/competiti...ga23/programme
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Oh, wow!
Just working my way through the streams of the Japanese University Team Championships in Kumagaya. I've watched every race so far, heats, semis and all (except Decathlon races)!
In the Men's 110m Hurdles final yesterday ... 21yo Rachid Muratake equalled the Japanese NR, 13.04 (-0.5). You knew he was kind of special when he ran his previous PB, 13.18, in his first race back in late July after injury. He didn't go to Budapest though because he was injured when the Japanese Championships took place.
You can watch the race at https://youtu.be/fnoJqVwP9Q0?t=17434 (timestamped) - he's in Lane 6. That's him in shot when the video starts.Comment
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That's a new one! ...
Tomorrow's Kokonoe Mayor's Cup Kyushu Invitational High School Ekiden has been cancelled because a beehive was found on the course!
https://www.town.kokonoe.oita.jp/docs/2023092300016/
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Brazil have selected what looks like a pretty much full-strength team of 67 athletes for the Pan American Games, starting at the end of October in Santiago, Chile.
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Science fiction happening in the Women's race at the Berlin Marathon!Comment
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At the Berlin Marathon ...
My mind is blown!
2:11:53 WR for Tigist Assefa !!! A touch outside 5 minute miling! 66:20 /65:33 splits.
I really don't know what to make of that. I'm not yet ready for a world where a woman is faster than all but a few of Britain's current crop of men !!
Twelve women were on WR pace at 15km and all but one paid for it! Assefa's winning margin almost 6 minutes from Sheila Chepkirui. In 3rd debutante Magdalena Shauri ran 2:18:41, a Tanzanian NR by 6 minutes.
2:22:17 PB for Charlie Purdue putting her UK #2 all-time.
Hitomi Niiya was right on Japanese NR pace (2:19:12) at 15km but fell off it after that and finished in 2:23:08.
Men's race
1 Kipchoge 2:02:42 (60:22 / 62:20)
2 Vincent Kipkemoi 2:03 (debut)
3 Tadese Takele 2:03 (debut)
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9 Amanal Petros (GER) 2:04:58 - improving his own NR by 1:29
22 Weynay Ghebresilasie (GBR) 2:09:50 - PB by 2:07Comment
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The course is fast but 2:11 is 🤯Comment
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Oh yeah.. it's the shoes as well as the course. Was she wearing the new super duper 500 dollar shoes.? Let's see what this athlete does next year in Paris. Is she regularly tested?
there has been a few female athletes who have run great marathons and been banned some time later. I remain sceptical.
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At yesterday's Kansai region University Women's Ekiden in Kobe, Japan ...
The first live streamed Ekiden of the season was a good one with suspense about the ultimate winners right until the closing stages.
After the first 2 legs last year's runners-up Osaka Gakuin Uni had jumped out to a 33 seconds lead over 2021 & 2022 victors Ritsumeikan Uni, Osaka Gakuin aided by a strong performance by Rio Einaga - much better by her after disappointing runs at the World University Games and last week's University Team Championships. At the end of Leg 2 there was a fierce battle for 4th with just 2 seconds separating the teams in 4th to 7th places. On the 3rd leg though, Ritsumeikan's Fuku Fukunaga cut Osaka Gakuin's lead to just 9s and on the 4th leg when Ritsumeikan's Yura Arata overtook Himeka Chiba and established an 11s lead it looked like game over for Osaka Gakuin. However, Arata had misjudged her effort and Chiba clawed it all back and more, giving Osaka Gakuin a 3s buffer at the changeover. Chihiro Sato extended the lead to 18s on Leg 5 and then it looked a long way back for Ritsumeikan. However, Ritsumeikan's Asa Kobayashi set about trying to close it on the last 2-lap leg, by halfway of the leg exactly halving the deficit to Osaka Gakuin and then catching them with just over 2km to go. Only then was it clear who the victors would be.
The first 7 of the 20 teams were:
1 Ritsumeikan University 1:40:23 - 71 seconds slower than their winning time last year which was the joint fastest in the last 9 years
2 Osaka Gakuin University 1:40:38
3 Kansai University 1:41:29
4 Osaka University of Arts 1:43:24 - Over the last leg their deficit to the leaders doubled
5 Kansai University of Foreign Studies 1:44:09
6 Kyoto Kouka Women's University 1:44:49
7 Bukkyo (Buddhist) University 1:45:06
Ritsumeikan, Osaka Gakuin and Kansai had already automatically qualified for the All Japan University Women's Ekiden Championship by virtue of finishing Top 8 in that race last year. But Kansai is a strong region that gets 3 extra qualifiers and so the teams finishing 4th to 6th here will join them in Sendai on 29th October. Kanto region also get 3 extra but most of the other regions only get one in addition to any automatic qualifiers.
So, that means last year's 3rd placers Bukkyo University haven't qualified this year. There may be another route in for them though. Six of the 26 teams at the All Japan University Women's Ekiden qualify by their accumulated time for 6 athlete's 5000m performances. I've learned a lot about Ekidens over the last few years but there's still stuff to learn including how that works - is that route open to all teams who don't otherwise qualify via an Ekiden placing? I don't know but I'll try and invesigate and hopefully have the answer before that race on 29th October.
One of the things I love about road relays is all the races within a race. On this occasion, there were 6 of them (6 legs). The fastest times of the day are below (with legs of the same distance combined in one listing - they're all run on the same loop here):
3.9km (Leg 1) - CR 12:20
1 Rio Einaga (Osaka Gakuin) 12:25 - Performance of the day I think, on a course that is quite demanding with all its undulations
2 Sayuki Ota (Ritsumeikan) 12:46 - Just 18yo
3 Moyu Taniguchi (Kyoto Kouka Women's Uni) 12:49
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5 Misaki Kubo (Higashiosaka Uni) 13:09 - She's one of the top collegians at 800m so a great effort by her
3.3km (Legs 2 & 5) - CR 10:08
1 Ayana Yamashita (Osaka Gakuin) 10:28
2 Chihiro Sato (Osaka Gakuin) 10:37
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6 Ai Watanabe (Sonoda Women's Uni) 10:50 - Again another great effort, this time by Japan's top collegian at 800m
7 Tomo Muramatsu (Ritsumeikan) 10:52 - After poor runs at the World University Games and last week's Team University Championships this wasn't much of an improvement for this 32:27 athlete. But, I suppose (as captain) she still kept her team in the hunt for victory and from her interview at the end she seems like a lovely lass!
6.5km (Legs 3, 4 & 6) - CR 20:52
1 Fuka Fukunaga (Ritsumeikan) 21:49 - It's a bit baffling why her track times aren't better because she has great runs in Ekidens. She's moved up to longer distances only in the last couple of years so maybe she's still adapting to running in circles so many times?
2 Hikaru Kitagawa (Osaka Uni of Arts) 21:50 - A very solid run by the World University Games champion in the Half Marathon; 32:39 PB for 10,000
3 Asa Kobayashi (Ritsumeikan) 21:54
I've watched some of the Japanese Corporate T&F Championships live but I'm waiting for the on-demand streams to catch-up on everything before reporting on that.
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Crikey! A Berlin marathon thread with hardly any mention of Kipchoge! An unreal time by Assefa.
Regrettably, we have been here before, Lucky. I may be wrong but I seem to recall Paula's WR time ranked 2nd overall in UK that year. Thankfully, British men's times have improved since then.
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2.11:53 for a marathon is some going for someone with a HM best of 1.07:28.
This is the first result the World Athletics site has for her this year.Comment
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With so many world records on the track this year, it's not surprising that we are seeing world records on the roads too. In a world where a woman can run 3.49 in a 1500m race, a 2:11 marathon doesn't seem that ridiculous. We have entered a new era thanks to the shoe technology, the shoes she wore represent yet another step up apparently. I think why this result is being treated with suspicion is because it is such a jump and we can't see see her progression from previous races. Time will tell if it represents a new normal.Comment
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What's ridiculous is that a 400 pounds shoe from Adidas was responsible for the absurd non sense yesterday. Gets thrown away after the race to the chagrin perhaps of the environment lobby .we are seeing now and for the future in road runs as well as track. More crazy,y times supposedly based only on talent. The happy people are shareholders of the companies selling shoes. Thank goodness we will see an OG where the winner will compete in the same footwear as others and with no pacemakers, wavelights. Great.!!
Technological change, my ass!Comment
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