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Japan's mass participation world took another step back toward pre-pandemic normality with at least 30,000 finishers in four big marathons over the long weekend. On Thursday's national holiday, course record holder Tomomi Sawahata added another Gunma Marathon win to her resume in 2:47:13, 10 minutes slower than her CR but enough to better 2nd-placer Mai Arizuka by 1:12. Yuji Shibukawa led the 9,747 finishers with a 2:22:12 win in the men's race. In her first marathon since winning August's Hokkaido Marathon and qualifying for Japan's MGC Race Olympic marathon trials next year, Haruka Yamaguchi broke her own course record at the Chiba Aqualine Marathon with a 2:39:26 for the win, her 3rd-straight win in Chiba Aqualine's four runnings to date. Takashi Mino won the men's race in 2:25:07, with a total of 14,994 people starting the race. Yamaguchi will run next weekend's East Japan Women's Ekiden. The Toyama Marathon had 12,068 finishers, two-tim...

Yuki Kawauchi (31, Saitama Pref. Gov't), who in April became the first Japanese man in 31 years to win the Boston Matathon, ran the 13th edition of the Nasu Shiobara Half Marathon November 3rd in Nasu Shiobara, Tochigi. 1700 people took part in the 2 km, 5 km and half marathon divisions starting and finishing in Kuroiso Sports Park in Kami-Atsusaki. Running the half as a special guest, Kawauchi commented, "During the race I got serious." Dropping the rest of the field, he crossed the finish line 1st in 1:05:03. His nearest competition, Takashi Mino , 25, finished in 1:07:58. Triathlete Naomi Washizu , 35, won the women's race in 1:17:19. source article: https://www.sankei.com/sports/news/181103/spo1811030007-n1.html translated and edited by Brett Larner