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Paul Tanui World-Leading 27:16.75 – Weekend Corporate League Highlights – by Brett Larner – Japan Running News

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Alongside Bedan Karoki's Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon course record, Murayama twins Kenta and Kota's Kanto Regional University Championships 10000 m double victory and Yoshihide Kiryu's 10.05 national university record, four of the six regional corporate leagues held their track and field championships over the weekend.

Moscow World Championships 10000 m bronze medalist Paul Tanui (Kenya/Team Kyudenko) fronted the corporate regionals' best race with a world-leading 27:16.75 to win the Kyushu region men's 10000 m over the Koichi Morishita-coached Kenyan Jeremiah Karemi (Team Toyota Kyushu), 2nd in 27:41.81, and Ethiopian Melaku Abera (Team Kurosaki Harima), 3rd in 27:42.35.

Four of the eight Japanese men to have run sub-2:10 marathons so far this year were also in the race, Masato Imai (Team Toyota Kyushu), 2nd in 2:09:30 at February's Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon, topping the group 5th overall in 28:34.75. Kohei Matsumura (Team Mitsubishi Juko Nagasaki), the fastest Japanese marathoner this year with a 2:08:09 in Tokyo, took 7th in 28:38.80, with Satoru Sasaki (Team Asahi Kasei), 2:09:47 at Lake Biwa, 15th in 29:06.73 and Masanori Sakai (Team Kyudenko), 2:09:10 in Tokyo behind Matsumura, 21st in 29:30.41.

Tanui's teammate, 2014 World Half Marathon bronze medalist Sally Chepyego (Kenya/Team Kyudenko), had an easy win in the Kyushu women's 5000 m, running 15:37.92 to beat rival Pauline Kamulu (Kenya/Team Toto) by 3 1/2 seconds.

Higher-level women's action came at the East Japan region meet, with Doricah Obare (Kenya/Team Hitachi) defending her 10000 m title in 31:58.71 and newcomer Rosemary Monica (Kenya/Team Starts) winning the 3000 m in 9:02.30 after also taking the 1500 m. 2011 National Corporate 10000 m champion Kasumi Nishihara (Team Yamada Denki) was the only one to stop a Kenyan sweep, outkicking 2013 National Corporate 5000 m winner Grace Kimanzi (Team Starts) and Felista Wanjugu (Team Univ. Ent.) to win the 5000 m by less than a second in 15:32.55.

While Nishihara got in the way of the women, the Kenyan men did manage to pull off an East Japan sweep. In his first season in Japan Ronald Kwemoi (Team Komori Corp.) took the 1500 m in 3:42.50, nearly five seconds ahead of runner-up Yasunori Murakami (Team Fujitsu). Bernard Kimani (Team Honda) outran 2013 World XC junior silver medalist Leonard Barsoton (Team Nissin Shokuhin), last weekend's Sendai International Half Marathon winner Johana Maina (Team Fujitsu) and others to win the 5000 m in 13:24.30.

The ascendant William Malel (Team Honda) rounded out the sweep with a 28:00.12 win in the 10000 m, which saw a moderately successful comeback run from almost two years of Achilles trouble by former Tokai University star Akinobu Murasawa (Team Nissin Shokuhin), 6th in 28:35.09. Another Japanese man with a sub-2:10 to his name this season, 2:09:07 marathoner Hirokatsu Kurosaki (Team Konica Minolta), made an appearance in the 10000 m B-heat, 11th in 29:56.16, but the East Japan region's other two 2014 sub-2:10 men Suehiro Ishikawa (Team Honda) and Koji Kobayashi (Team Subaru) were nowhere to be seen.

The Chugoku region split its track championships into two, the 5000 m held last week and only the 10000 m on the menu this weekend. Things were relatively low-key, with former Sera H.S. standout Charles Ndirangu (Kenya/Team JFE Steel) jogging the 10000 m in 28:30.82 for the win by more than 20 seconds over Yuji Osuda (Team Mazda). The Kansai region, the only with a complete ban on foreign athletes, saw a meet record 3:44.67 win from Daiki Hirose (Team Osaka Gas) in the 1500 m but winning times of only 14:14.73 and 29:33.03 in the men's 5000 m and 10000 m. Women's times in Kansai were a little more advanced thanks to the Otsuka Seiyaku team, with its marathoner Mai Ito winning the 5000 m in 15:46.00 and teammate Ayaka Inoue the 10000 in 32:54.78.

A few corporate league runners even managed to sneak overseas over the weekend. Quasi-NOP member Suguru Osako (Team Nissin Shokuhin) continued his USA-based post-graduation season with a 13:39.10 for 7th at the USATF High Performance Distance Classic, while former Toyo University member Yu Chiba (Team Honda) ran 2:13:44 at the Riga Marathon in Latvia for a rare Japanese win in Europe.

by Brett Larner – Japan Running News

East JPN corporate team T&F Championships in Fukushima -Results by Ken Nakamura:

100m -2.7m/s May 17

1) Naoki Tsukahara 10.57

200m 3.2m/s May 18

1) Hitoshi Saito 20.77

400m May 17

1) Hideyuki Hirose 47.25

800m May 18

1) Yasuhiro Nakamura 1:50.23

1500m May 17

1) Ronald Kwemoi (KEN & Komori Corporation) 3:42.50

2) Yasunori Murakami 3:47.10

3) Yuki Sato 3:47.35

5000m May 18

race 4

1) Bernard Kimani (KEN & Yakult) 13:24.30

2) Leonard Barsoton (KEN & Nissin) 13:26.83

3) David Njuguna (KEN & Yakult) 13:30.51

4) Johana Maina (KEN & FUjitsu) 13:41.98

5) Daniel Gitau (KEN & Fujitsu) 13:46.65

6) Joseph Onsarigo (KEN & Nanyo city hall) 13:55.55

7) Yuki Takamiya 13:57.03

8) Yuki Sato 13:57.85

10000m May 17

race 2

1) William Malel (KEN & Honda) 28:00.12

2) Kassa Mekashaw (ETH & Yachiyo Industry) 28:18.15

3) Daniel Gitau (KEN & Fujitsu) 28:22.43

4) Muryo Takase 28:32.38

5) Ryota Matoba 28:34.45

6) Akinobu Murasawa 28:35.09

7) Keita Shitara 28:57.96

8) Masaki Ito 28:58.75

110mH -3.0m/s May 17

1) Wataru Yazawa 14.17

400mH May 18

1) Takayuki Kishimoto 49.59

2) Takatoshi Abe 49.69

3000mSC May 17

1) Yasumasa Ogawa 9:02.61

5000mWalk May 17

1) Isamu Fujisawa 19:18.27

2) Hirooki Arai 19:20.10

HJ May 18

1) Taira Omata 2.16m

PV May 17

1) Hiroki Ogita 5.61m

TJ May 17

1) Daigo Hasegawa 16.02m 1.0m/s

SP May 18

1) Satoshi Hatase 17.61m

DT May 17

1) Yuji Tsutsumi 57.85m

HT May 18

1) Hiroshi Noguchi 68.92mm

JT May 17

1) Ken Arai 68.63m

Women

100m -1.5m/s May 18

1) Nodoka Seko 11.91

200m -3.9m/s May 17

1) Rio Banno 25.34

400m May 18

1) Asami Chiba 54.59

800m May 18

1) Manami Mashita 2:08.84

1500m May 17

1) Rosemary Monicah (KEN & Starts) 4:23.90

2) Chihiro Sunaga 4:24.52

3000m May 18

1) Rosemary Monicah (KEN & Starts) 9:02.30

2) Yuika Mori 9:12.00

5000m May 18

race 1

1) Hanami Sekine 15:58.02

2) Toshika Tamura 16:03.39

race 2

1) Kasumi Nishihara 15:32.55

2) Felista Wanjugu (KEN & Universal) 15:33.21

3) Grace Kimanzi (KEN & Starts) 15:39.71

4) Hanae Tanaka 15:48.06

5) Ayumi Hagiwara 15:55.34

6) Kaoru Nagao 15:56.40

7) Hanami Sekine 15:58.02

8) Rina Yamazaki 15:58.25

9) Kanako Shimada 15:58.65

10)Sakiko Matsumi 16:02.18

11)Kaho Tanaka 16:04.24

10000m May 17

1) Obare Doricah (KEN & Hitachi) 31:58.71

2) Kaoru Nagao 32:49.60

3) Ayumi Hagiwara 32:50.22

4) Yukari Abe 33:09.86

5) Risa Takenaka 33:10.21

6) Yuki Hidaka 33:12.80

7) Natsuko Goto 33:13.85

8) Yukari Abe 33:20.63

9) Rika Shintaku 33:21.14

10)Haruna Takada 33:21.18

11)Korei Omata 33:28.28

12)Yuka Tokuda 33:36.29

13)Asami Kato 33:37.92

14)Manami Kanitanida 33:49.75

100mH May 17 -5.5m/s

1) Mami Ishino 14.64

400mH May 17

1) Manami Kira 57.47

3000mSC May 17

1) Nana Sato 10:35.15

5000mWalk May 17

1) Kumiko Okada 22:10.03

HJ May 17

1) Ayumi Kawaguchi 1.70m

PV May 17

1) Tomoko Sumiishi 4.01m

LJ May 18

1) Yurika Hiraka 6.13m 1.2m/s

TJ May 17

1) Fumiyo Yoshida 12.79m 3.7m/s

SP May 18

1) Chiaki Yokomizo 15.14m

DT May 17

1) Ai Shikimoto 51.45m

HT May 18

1) Wakana Sato 59.76m

JT May 17

1) Kisu Miyamoto 49.57m

Kyushu Corporate team T&F Champ Kita-Kyushu

Men

10000m May 17

1) Paul Tanui (KEN & Kyudenko) 27:16.75

2) Karemi Thuku (KEN & Toyota Kyushu) 27:41.81

3) Muraku Abera (ETH & Kurosaki) 27:42.35

4) Kazuya Deguchi 28:32.31

5) Masato Imai 28:34.75

6) Ryo Kiname 28:35.66

7) Kohei Matsumura 28:38.80

8) Yuki Oshikawa 28:39.27

Women

5000m May 18

1) Selly Kaptich Chepyego (KEN & Kyudenko) 15:37.92

2) Pauline Kamulu (KEN & TOTO) 15:41.53

3) Yuka Miyazaki 16:06.53

10000m May 17

1) Chieko Kido 32:50.38

2) Keiko Nogami 32:54.08

3) Megumi Hirai 32:56.49

4) Yuka Yano 33:13.25

5) Sayaka Kuroki 33:28.41

6) Anna Hasuike 33:35.90

…

8) Risa Takemura 33:47.47

Kanto district Collegiate Championships in Kumagaya

100m 1.6m/s May 17

1) Yoshihide Kiryu 10.05

2) Aska Cambridge 10.21

3) Kazuma Oseto 10.27

race 2 1.5m/s

1) Ryota Yamagata 10.23

400m May 17

1) Nobuya Kato 47.25

1500m May 16

1) Enock Omwamba (KEN & Yamanashi Gakuin U) 3:48.66

2) Genki Yagisawa 3:52.23

race 2

1) Lazarus Montanya 3:49.84

10000m May 16

1) Kota Murayama 28:54.85

2) Hiroto Inoue 28:55.87

3) Daniel Muiva Kitonyi (KEN & Nihon U) 28:57.05

race 2

1) Kenta Murayama 29:03.22

110mH May 17 -1.5m/s

1) Kazuaki Ota 13.84

2) Genta Masuno 13.84

10000mWalk May 17

1) Daisuke Matsunaga 39:18.71

2) Takumi Saito 39:23.58

3) Kai Kobayashi 39:27.90

4) Yosuke Kimura 40:53.75

HJ May 16

1) Ryo Sato 2.16m

2) Daisuke Nakajima 2.16m

TJ May 17

1) Ryoma Yamamoto 16.16m (3.4m/s)

2) Shu Tomura 15.94m (1.1m/s)

DT May 16

1) Kenta Akiba 53.48m

2) Hiroya Kobayashi 50.61m

HT May 17

1) Kazuto Sato 61.76m

2) Masataka Nashiro 61.68m

1) Tomoya Era 74.66m

2) Kenta Sonoda 74.23m

3) Homare Mori 72.40m

Decathlon May 16, 17

1) Kazuya Kawasaki 7248

2) Kojiro Tani 7007

4x100m Relays May 17

1) Chuo University 39.12

2) Hosei University 39.31

Women

100m 0.7m/s May 17

1) Anna Doi 11.59

2) Anna Fujimori 11.93

semi 2 3.1m/s

1) Anna Doi 11.51

400m May 17

1) Suzuka Kawabata 56.00

1500m May 16

1) Miho Ito 4:29.78

2) Maya Iino 4:30.11

3) Chikako Mori 4:30.68

10000m May 16

1) Sakurako Fukuuchi 33:44.72

2) Yuko Kikuchi 33:46.87

3) Hitomi Suzuki 33:46.99

4) Mai Shinozuka 33:47.16

100mH May 17 2.7m/s

1) Chihiro Tanabe 13.63

2) Mako Fukube 13.78

PV May 16

1) Aki Kabuno 3.70m

TJ May 16

1) Kaede Miyasaka 12.94m 1.1m/s

DT May 16

1) Riko Chinen 46.69m

HT May 16

1) Hitomi Katsuyama 60.56m

JT May 16

1) Kihou Kuze 54.16m

4x100mRelays May 17

1) Aoyama Gakuin University 46.11

2) Daito Bunka University 46.58

East JPN corporate team T&F Championships in Fukushima -Results by Ken Nakamura:

author: GRR