Skip to main content

Kanto Regional University Track and Field Championships - Results

Partial results from the distance events and some shorter races at the 2008 Kanto Regional University Track and Field Championships, held May 17, 18, 24 and 25 at the National Stadium in Tokyo. Complete results can be found here. Some events listed below include links to race videos.

Men`s 1500 m Final - May 17
1. Mekubo Mogusu (senior, Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.): 3:45.66
2. Atsuro Kikuchi (junior, Juntendo Univ.): 3:48.32
3. Atsushi Yamazaki (senior, Juntendo Univ.): 3:48.34
4. Keisuke Tanaka (sophomore, Josai Univ.): 3:49.12
5. Hikaru Miyazaki (senior, Nittai Univ.): 3:49.55
6. Yuichi Tokuchi (senior, Chuo Univ.): 3:49.63
7. Hiroyuki Uno (frosh, Toyo Univ.): 3:49.82
8. Kazuya Takahashi (senior, Waseda Univ.): 3:49.84
9. Takafumi Yanase (junior, Chuo Univ.): 3:50.35
10. Yoshihiro Wakamatsu (senior, Toyo Univ.): 3:50.35

Men`s 3000 m SC Final - May 24
1. Atsuro Kikuchi (junior, Juntendo Univ.): 8:42.06
2. Aoi Matsumoto (junior, Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.): 8:42.66
3. Kyosuke Suda (sophomore, Juntendo Univ.): 8:43.21
4. Tsuyoshi Takada (senior, Juntendo Univ.): 8:45.58
5. Takamori Yamashita (sophomore, Chuo Univ.): 8:49.64
6. Shintaro Nara (frosh, Nittai Univ.): 8:51.23
7. Cosmas Ondeiba (frosh, Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.): 8:54.42
8. Yuki Munakata (frosh, Chuo Univ.): 8:54.81
9. Ken Akazome (sophomore, Tokai Univ.): 9:04.49
10. Taichi Saito (senior, Waseda Univ.): 9:05.07

Men`s 5000 m Final - May 25
1. Daniel Gitau (junior, Nihon Univ.): 13:38.75
2. Takuya Fukatsu (junior, Komazawa Univ.): 13:50.56
3. Tomoya Onishi (senior, Toyo Univ.): 13:50.93
4. Cosmas Ondeiba (frosh, Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.): 13:52.91
5. Ryuji Kashiwabara (frosh, Toyo Univ.): 13:58.28
6. Hiroyuki Ono (senior, Juntendo Univ.): 13:59.76
7. Takafumi Yanase (junior, Chuo Univ.): 14:01.11
8. Takahiro Mori (junior, Nittai Univ.): 14:04.53
9. Sota Hoshi (junior, Komazawa Univ.): 14:06.83
10. Yoshihiro Wakamatsu (senior, Yoyo Univ.): 14:08.60

Men`s 10000 m Final - May 18 click for video
1. Mekubo Mogusu (senior, Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.): 27:27.64 - Meet Record, National Student Record
2. Daniel Gitau (junior, Nihon Univ.): 27:59.05
3. Ryuji Kashiwabara (frosh, Toyo Univ.): 28:44.42
4. Takuya Fukatsu (junior, Komazawa Univ.): 28:44.73
5. Sota Hoshi (junior, Komazawa Univ.): 28:45.26
6. Tsuyoshi Ugachi (junior, Komazawa Univ.): 28:46.48
7. Takahiro Mori (junior Nittai Univ.): 28:49.52
8. Kazuyuki Ito (senior, Josai Univ.): 28:50.17
9. Hiroyuki Ono (senior, Juntendo Univ.): 29:02.28
10. Yohei Yamamoto (junior, Chuo Univ.): 29:07.55

Click here for video of the men`s 10000 m B-group final.

Men`s Half Marathon Final - May 25 click for video
1. Mekubo Mogusu (senior, Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.): 1:02:23 - Meet Record
2. Tsuyoshi Ugachi (junior, Komazawa Univ.): 1:04:19
3. Takahiro Ozaki (junior, Waseda Univ.): 1:04:26
4. Yuki Takamiya (junior Josai Univ.): 1:04:30
5. Nobuhiko Hirakawa (senior, Chuo Univ.): 1:04:30
6. Hidehito Takamine (senior, Hosei Univ.): 1:04:32
7. Tomoya Mizukoshi (junior, Chuo Univ.): 1:04:32
8. Yuki Kyoyama (senior, Hosei Univ.): 1:04:39
9. Kenta Kawasaki (senior, Kokushikan Univ.): 1:04:52
10. Norimasa Yoshida (senior, Tokai Univ.): 1:04:55

Men`s 4 x 100 m Relay Final - May 24 click for video
1. Waseda Univ.: 39.46
2. Tsukuba Univ.: 39.72
3. Nihon Univ.: 39.83
4. Chuo Univ.: 39.83
5. Kokushikan Univ.: 40.16

Click here for video of the men`s 4 x 100 m relay B-group final.

Men`s Decathlon 1500 m Final - May 18 click for video
1. Taisuke Ikeda (senior, Nihon Univ.): 4:32.48
2. Kodai Hori (junior, Waseda Univ.): 4:33.63
3. Shohei Yagi (sophomore, Toyo Univ.): 4:34.10
4. Ichiro Arima (sophomore, Waseda Univ.): 4:35.38
5. Akinori Hayashida (junior, Juntendo Univ.): 4:36.65

Click here for video of the decathlon 1500 m B-group final.

Women`s 1500 m Final - May 17
1. Kieko Shinada (junior, Tsukuba Univ.): 4:30.85
2. Chihiro Sunaga (sophomore, Sozo Gakuin Univ.): 4:31.40
3. Maya Hirokawa (junior, Tamagawa Univ.): 4:31.95
4. Jemima Maina (junior, Nihon Univ.): 4:32.07
5. Yukari Nomura (sophomore, Chuo Univ.): 4:32.70
6. Maki Kudo (senior, Tamagawa Univ.): 4:33.31
7. Sakie Ishibashi (senior, Waseda Univ.): 4:33.33
8. Yuko Ishibashi (senior, Tokyo Nogyo Univ.): 4:33.84
9. Yuka Hashimoto (junior, Nittai Univ.): 4:35.03
10. Myu Kobayashi (frosh, Hakuo Univ): 4:35.30

Women`s 5000 m Final - May 24 click for video
1. Yui Sakai (junior, Josai Univ.): 16:00.02
2. Sakie Ishibashi (senior, Waseda Univ.): 16:04.00
3. Ann Kingori (junior, Nihon Univ.): 16:05.27
4. Eriko Noguchi (senior, Juntendo Univ.): 16:08.33
5. Jemima Maina (junior, Nihon Univ.): 16:14.14
6. Tomomi Tanaka (junior, Tamagawa Univ.): 16:14.49
7. Mai Tamura (junior, Tokyo Nogyo Univ.): 16:14.85
8. Maki Kudo (senior, Tamagawa Univ.): 16:16.30
9. Natsuko Godo (junior, Nihon Univ.): 16:16.85
10. Yukari Abe (frosh, Josai Univ.): 16:16.95

Women`s 10000 m Final - May 17
1. Yui Sakai (junior, Josai Univ.): 32:58.47
2. Eriko Noguchi (senior, Juntendo Univ.): 33:19.06
3. Manami Hirabayashi (junior, Tokyo Nogyo Univ.): 34:01.30
4. Manami Murayama (junior, Tamagawa Univ.): 34:12.09
5. Ami Nishio (senior, Chuo Univ.): 34:18.07
6. Yuka Aoyama (senior, Tokai Univ.): 34:19.44
7. Kyoko Aizu (senior, Josai Kokusai Univ.): 34:33.79
8. Michiyo Oniki (senior, Josai Kokusai Univ.): 34:33.42
9. Kazuyo Okuyama (senior, Tamagawa Univ.): 34:48.25
10. Haruka Noda (senior, Ibaraki Univ.): 34:56.02

Women`s 4 x 100 m Relay Final - May 24 click for video
1. Nittai Univ.: 45.40 - Meet Record, Regional Record
2. Chuo Univ.: 45.60
3. Tsukuba Univ: 45.73
4. Nihon Jotai Univ.: 46.42
5. Heisei Kokusai Univ.: 46.60

Comments

Most-Read This Week

Weekend Racing Roundup

  China saw a new men's national record of 2:06:57 from  Jie He  at the Wuxi Marathon Sunday, but in Japan it was a relatively quiet weekend with mostly cold and rainy amateur-level marathons across the country. At the Tokushima Marathon , club runner Yuhi Yamashita  won the men's race by almost 4 1/2 minutes in 2:17:02, the fastest Japanese men's time of the weekend, but oddly took 22 seconds to get across the starting line. The women's race saw a close finish between the top two, with Shiho Iwane  winning in 2:49:33 over Ayaka Furukawa , 2nd in 2:49:46.  At the 41st edition of the Sakura Marathon in Chiba, Yukie Matsumura  (Comodi Iida) ran the fastest Japanese women's time of the weekend, 2:42:45, to take the win. Club runner Yuki Kuroda  won the men's race in 2:20:08.  Chika Yokota  won the Saga Sakura Marathon women's race in 2:49:33.  Yuki Yamada  won the men's race in 2:21:47 after taking the lead in the final 2 km.  Naoki Inoue  won the 16th r

Japan's Olympic Marathon Team Meets the Press

With renewed confidence, Japan's Olympic marathon team will face the total 438 m elevation difference hills of Paris this summer. The members of the women's and men's marathon teams for August's Paris Olympics appeared at a press conference in Tokyo on Mar. 25 in conjunction with the Japan Marathon Championship Series III (JMC) awards gala. Women's Olympic trials winner Yuka Suzuki (Daiichi Seimei) said she was riding a wave of motivation in the wake of the new women's national record. When she watched Honami Maeda (Tenmaya) set the record at January's Osaka International Women's Marathon on TV, Suzuki said she was, "absolutely stunned." Her coach Sachiko Yamashita told her afterward, "When someone breaks the NR, things change," and Suzuki found herself saying, "I want to take my shot." After training for a great run in Paris, she said, "I definitely want to break the NR in one of my marathons after that." Mao

Takeuchi Wins Niigata Half in Boston Tune-Up

Running in cold, windy and rainy conditions, Ryoma Takeuchi (ND Software) warmed up for April's Boston Marathon with a win at Wednesday's Niigata Half Marathon . Takeuchi sat behind Nittai University duo Susumu Yamazaki and Ryuga Ishikawa in the early stages, then made a series of pushes to pick up the pace. Each time he tucked in behind whoever went to the front, while behind them others dropped off. Before 15 km only Yamazaki and Riki Koike of Soka University were left, and when Takeuchi went to the front the last time after 15 km only Koike followed. By 16 he was gone too, leaving Takeuchi to solo it in to the win in 1:03:13 with a 17-second negative split. "This was my last fitness check before the Boston Marathon next month, and my time was right on-target," he said post-race. "Everything went as planned. I'm looking forward to racing some of the world's best in Boston, and my goal there is to place in the single digits." Just back from tr