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Paris Marathon: http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/paris-marathon-2016 The great Mari Ozaki (Team Noritz), 40, was 6th in the women's race in Paris in 2:32:44, an apparent new masters' national record.  Click here for complete results . Daegu Marathon: http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/daegu-marathon Tomomi Higuchi (Team Daihatsu) took 7th in the women's race in Daegu in 2:38:31. Prague Half Marathon: http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/prague-half-marathon-athletics-2016-prague Misato Horie and Mei Matsuyama of the Noritz corporate team finished 14th and 15th in the Prague women's race in 1:14:12 and 1:15:38.  Click here for complete results .

by Brett Larner Cloudless skies, a fresh snow cap and carefully worked out camera angles that included Mt. Fuji as a backdrop in almost every shot made for spectacular viewing at the second running of the Mt. Fuji Women's Ekiden , the last elite race of the year on the Japanese calendar.  Formerly held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki and serving as the season-ending National University Women's Invitational Ekiden Championships, the Mt. Fuji race was once again dominated by the unstoppable Ritsumeikan University whose seven runners handled the downhill first half, flat middle and 164 m-climb 7.7 km anchor stage with equal skill, all seven making the top four out of twenty on their stages. Maya Iino (Tokyo Nogyo Univ.) took a short-lived lead on the 78 m-downhill First Stage, but Ritsumeikan's Tomoka Iwai was quick to move to the front on the 25 m-descent Second Stage.  3000 mSC collegiate national record holder Chikako Mori (Daito Bunka Univ.) provided a brief challenge, but Iwa...

2012 Zevenheuvelenloop 15 km Nijmegen, Netherlands, 11/18/12 click here for complete results Women 1. Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) - 47:08 2. Tiki Gelana (Ethiopia) - 48:09 3. Beatrice Mutai (Kenya) - 48:52 4. Lucy Macharia (Kenya) - 49:00 5. Gelete Burka (Ethiopia) - 49:26 6. Aki Odagiri (Japan) - 50:57 7. Merel de Knegt (Netherlands) - 51:43 8. Eriko Kushima (Japan) - 51:49 9. Hikari Yasuhara (Japan) - 52:14 10. Miranda Boonstra (Netherlands) - 52:23 11. Mei Matsuyama (Japan) - 52:59 ----- 19. Ai Furukubo (Japan) - 55:16 Men 1. Nicholas Kipkemboi (Kenya) - 42:01 2. Leonard Komon (Kenya) - 42:18 3. Nguse Amlosom (Ethiopia) - 42:28 4. Kennedy Kimutai (Kenya) - 42:29 5. Abera Kuma (Ethiopia)