http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/saitama/news/20160208-OYTNT50000.html translated and edited by Brett Larner 105 teams competed in four different divisions at the 83rd Saitama Ekiden on Feb. 7. Saitama Sakae H.S. , the overall winner at last weekend's Okumusashi Ekiden , ran the six-stage, 42.195 km men's course in 2:10:14, faster than any of the corporate or university teams in the race, to seal a fourth-straight high school division win. Following up its Hakone Ekiden debut last month, Tokyo International University was close behind in 2:10:20 to win the general division, with the Saitama T&F Assoc. team winning the local team division. The Saitama Sakae H.S. girls ran 1:12:59 for the five-stage, 20.5 km women's race to win for the third year in a row. The Saitama Sakae boys' opening runner Takahisa Mitsui and third runner Ryoji Tatezawa both scored overall stage wins, Tatezawa outran marathoner Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) by 31 seconds ov...
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