Nippon TV's Hakone broadcast began in 1987. Its highest-ever ratings of 31.0% and 33.7% came in 2021 when Komazawa University won.
Battocletti picked up the pace over the next loop and was 28 seconds ahead of Palmero and Saapunki by the 4km mark, and her advantage only grew during the final loop.
Looking ahead to next year, winner AGU is hit harder by graduation than any other team in the top 10 except 8th-placer Tokyo Kokusai University, both of them losing 6 of this year's starting lineup.
Pioneers of the distance running movement in India, Procam International’s Big 4 – Tata Mumbai Marathon, Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon, Tata Consultancy Services World 10K and Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata— are global leaders in their respective distances.
Performances at Hakone just keep going up and up. There has to be a ceiling somewhere, but with new CR on 4 out of 10 legs, one with 3 people breaking it, 2 teams breaking the Day Two CR, and a new overall CR, it's not in sight yet.
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