青学優勝、そして 3連覇 おめでとうございます 😭 🎉 🥇 🎽 🏃🏻 今年も強すぎた … (;o;) #箱根駅伝 #箱根駅伝2017 #青学駅伝 pic.twitter.com/Bo23nJGGjh — m i s a k i (@m_k10__) January 3, 2017 by Brett Larner click here for Day One report Holding onto a slim 33-second lead from Day One , Aoyama Gakuin University became the fourth school in history to win all three university men's ekidens in a single season and the sixth to win Japan's most prestigious and popular race three years in a row as it held off rival Waseda University to take the 2017 Hakone Ekiden title. 【箱根駅伝 復路 2017.01.03】６区 小野田勇次 選手（青山学院大） pic.twitter.com/p4Bs2WEGMF — ▽ みさと (@run_nur07) January 3, 2017 With 109.6 km before them on the Day Two course, to have a chance of making up the 33-second deficit Waseda needed to stay in range of Aoyama Gakuin on the first leg of the day, the 20.8 km Sixth Stage with over 800 m elevation loss. This was no easy task given that Aoyama Gakuin was running second-year Yuji Onoda , 2nd on the same sta...
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