Hakone Ekiden

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The Hakone Ekiden ( Japanese 箱根 駅 伝; officially東京 箱根 間 往復 大学 駅 伝 競走 Tōkyō Hakone kan Ōfuku Daigaku Ekiden Kyōsō , German "University Ekiden between Tokyo and Hakone") is a relay race ( Ekiden ) between Japanese university teams . 1st and 3rd January. Ten runners per university cover a total of 217.1 kilometers, running on the first day from the starting point in Tokyo to Hakone and on the next day on largely the same route back to Tokyo. The Hakone Ekiden was held for the first time in 1920 and is very popular in Japan, the full race being broadcast live atNippon TV regularly has ratings of around 30%.

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overview

Runner at the Hakone Ekiden 2017

The university teams complete a total of 217.1 kilometers over two days, with ten established runners from a university - five per day - each covering distances in the range of a half marathon (21.0975 km). The start takes place annually on January 2nd in the center of Tokyo near the Imperial Palace , the destination on the first day is Lake Ashi in Hakone . On January 3rd, the route back to Tokyo is largely the same. There are usually 20 universities, 10 of which are seeded due to their top 10 placement from the previous year and another 10 have qualified in a qualification race. In addition, there is a selection team of students whose universities have failed to qualify.

Only universities from the Kanto region that belong to the hosting Inter-University Athletic Union of Kanto ( Japanese 関 東 学生 陸上 競技 連 盟 Kantō gakusei rikujō kyōgi renmei , KGRR for short) are eligible to participate. The Hakone Ekiden has a smaller catchment area than the two other large university Ekiden, the Izumo Ekiden and the All Japan University Men's Ekiden , but it is more important than both. In addition, the two above-mentioned Ekiden are also dominated by the universities from Kanto.

Rating

Victory goes to the fastest university after two days; the top 10 automatically qualify for the following year. The runners can set themselves apart with course records on one of the ten stages, and a trophy is also awarded to the “ Most Valuable Player ”. The selection team takes part outside of the evaluation, so it neither counts for the final evaluation, nor can the members set course records.

Tasuki and early start

Instead of a baton , the runners wear a tasuki , as is customary with Ekiden - a narrow sash that is worn over one shoulder and under the opposite arm during the run. In addition to its function as a baton , the Tasuki has a high emotional significance, so in addition to the embodiment of the team spirit, it is also attributed to symbolizing the expenses of each individual runner. In general, every university has a tasuki in its own color, but if a change is not made within a certain standard time, the next runner is sent off with a white and yellow striped tasuki provided by the organizer and the remaining time of the previous runner is added to the total time at the end. This is the case until the second change if 10 minutes behind, for changes three and four at 15 minutes and for all changes on the second day if 20 minutes behind. In the event of an early start, only the final runners of each day are allowed to run with a Tasuki in their university colors. In general, it is considered a shame not to hand the Tasuki over to the next runner in time, so runners arriving too late often break into tears in the transition area.

At the start of the second day there is also an early start, teams more than 10 minutes behind start running together and the remaining time is added to their final result. Together with the other early starts, this means that the order of the finish in the back field can differ from the actual final result.

popularity

OB van (2004)

The Hakone Ekiden will be broadcast live and in full length on Nippon TV . The audience figures are in the range of 25-30% annually, making the race one of the most watched sporting events in Japan. The live broadcast has existed since 1987 and led to a surge in popularity of the event, before that there had been a radio broadcast since 1953 and a combination of summary and live excerpts on TV Tokyo from 1979 to 1986 . The broadcast is elaborately staged with the use of outside broadcast vans, motorcycles and helicopters. In 2013, Nippon TV named a total of 1,000 people involved in the broadcast. Away from the television screen, the number of spectators gathered every year at the edge of the track is estimated to be over a million, and cheerleaders and bands from the universities ensure a good atmosphere .

Field of participants

System in Japan

Similar to the US sports system with high school and college , high-performance running sports in Japan take place at the appropriate age in schools and universities. After graduating from university, high-performance runners have the opportunity to join one of the numerous company teams whose sponsors - company teams such as Honda , Toyota or Fujitsu - typically work for a few hours of low-stress activity, but are otherwise paid as running professionals. While competitions and championships in the internationally common disciplines of track, cross and road running take place at all levels , the Ekiden, which takes place from October to January, are also of great importance. There is already a national Ekiden championship broadcast live on TV at high school level . The Hakone Ekiden is the highlight of the Ekiden season and has higher ratings than the New Year Ekiden , the national championship between the men's corporate teams, the day before. This focus on Ekiden and especially the Hakone Ekiden is sometimes cited as the reason for the lost connection of Japanese long-distance and marathon runners to the world's best.

Universities

The universities with Ekiden ambitions maintain athletics clubs, which include a large number of runners as well as a staff. It is common to have 40 to 60 athletes, a head coach along with other coaches and so-called managers who are themselves students and support the team in various matters during training, competition and public relations. While the Ekiden season takes place in the second half of the year with the Izumo Ekiden in October, the All Japan University Men's Ekiden in November and finally the Hakone Ekiden in January, the teams take part in various track and road runs in addition to training in the remaining time such as at the university championships on the track. In summer, training camps are common in rural, mountainous regions such as Hokkaido or Tohoku , and Japanese universities are generally known for their high training volumes.

Foreign students

After Douglas Wakiihuri became the first Kenyan to join a company team in 1983 , the Yamanashi Gakuin University in 1988 was the first university to accept two Kenyan runners into its team. Since then, runners from mainly East African countries have repeatedly emigrated to Japan to compete for high schools, universities or company teams, the majority of which come from Kenya and are under contract with company teams. Since a rule change in 2006, only one foreign runner may be used at the Hakone Ekiden, although after three successes at the Yamanashi Gakuin University from 1992 to 1995, no team with non-Japanese support was victorious.

origin

Higher Normal School Tokyo, winner of the 1st Hakone-Ekiden.

The first Ekiden competition was a run sponsored by the newspaper Yomiuri Shinbun in 1917 over three days and 516 kilometers from Kyoto to Tokyo . One of the participants, Shiso Kanaguri , who himself took part in the Olympic Games three times and stood out as a supporter of the local running sport during the Taishō period , is then supposed to go to an Ekidenlauf between the 13 universities that make up the Inter-University Athletic Union of Kanto , which was founded in 1919 (KGRR), and finally convinced the newspaper Hochi (later merged with the Yomiuri Shinbun ) to advance the cost of 50,000 yen . In 1920 , the first Hakone Ekiden between Tokyo and Hakone took place with four participating universities, which succeeded in putting together a team of ten ( Higher Normal School Tokyo , Meiji , Waseda , Keio ).

In the following years the Hakone Ekiden developed into an annual event; The only exceptions were the years 1941 and 1942 and 1944 to 1946, in which the Hakone Ekiden was canceled due to the Second World War. Since 1955 the run has taken place on January 2nd and 3rd; With the exception of the first edition held in February, it was also held annually on the first days of January until then.

qualification

overview

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While the 10 best-placed universities from the previous year are set, the other universities can take part in a qualification race, the Hakone Ekiden Yosenkai , which will be held in October . In the race over the half marathon distance (20 kilometers long until 2017), around 50 universities with 10 to a maximum of 12 runners each take part.The venue is Tachikawa, west of Tokyo , with start and finish at the military airfield and the Showa-Kinen- Park. The universities which, after adding up the 10 best individual times, also belong to the 10 best teams, qualify for the Hakone Ekiden. Another team, the Kanto Student Alliance ( Japanese関 東 学生 連 合 チ ー ムKantō gakusei rengō chiimu ) is made up of top-ranked students from universities who fail to qualify. Additional requirements for this, however, are that only one athlete is allowed per university and that a candidate runner has never taken part in the Hakone Ekiden.

Even without the 10 best-placed universities from the previous year, the Yosenkai is considered one of the best-filled half marathons in the world, especially in terms of performance. Juntendo University , which was victorious in 2020, achieved a total time of 10:23:34 h, which corresponds to an average of 1:02:21 h per runner, while the runners of the tenth-placed Senshu University achieved 10:33:59 h and thus in Average 1:03:24 h when the last university still managed to qualify. For universities without a large long-distance team, it can meanwhile be a motivation to be able to put together a team of enough eligible students for the Yosenkai . The criterion for this is a time of 34:00 min over 10,000 meters or 16:30 min over 5000 meters on the track, which a runner must have undercut since January 1st of the previous year. The team that came last at 46 universities in 2020 needed 12:32:37 h or an average of 1:15:16 h.

story

Qualifying races for the Hakone Ekiden have been held since 1947. The exact details changed again and again, so all schools had to compete up to the 32nd edition in 1956, although the number of participating universities was less than the number of 15 starting places to be allocated. Then the system, which is still valid today, was introduced with 10 (now also 9) teams qualified from the previous year. The route length was initially 10 miles (16.1 km) and then from the 41st edition in 1965 to the 94th edition in 2018, with the exception of the 80th edition in 2004, was 20 kilometers. Afterwards, the half-marathon distance (21.0975 km) was switched to. Since the 81st edition in 2005, the military airfield in Tachikawa has been a permanent venue for the Yosenkai .

route

Sketch-like representation of the route

The length of the entire course is given by the organizing KGRR as of 2021 as 217.1 km, 107.5 km of which are on the first day and 109.6 km on the second day. In the past, details such as the exact route or the changing points changed again and again due to natural conditions or conceptual changes, but the basic concept with a course between Tokyo and Hakone always remained the same. In addition, the KGRR undertakes new measurements every ten years so that the official information on the length of the route can change even if the route remains the same. The exact route lengths are often not known until 1943, but are said to have mostly been around 150 miles, which corresponds to 241.4 kilometers. After that, they remained similar to this day at around 220 kilometers.

The route records given for the individual stages are current as of 2021 and refer to the current route.

day 1

Stage 1 (21.3 km)

Ōtemachi , Tokyo - Tsurumi , Yokohama

The start of the Hakone Ekiden takes place annually at 8:00 a.m. in front of the headquarters of the daily newspaper Yomiuri Shinbun near the Imperial Palace . For the first few kilometers, the route leads through the districts of Chiyoda and Minato, past Tokyo station , Hibiya Park and the Zōjō-ji temple , then leaves the capital southwest through the districts of Shinagawa and Ōta and finally reaches the transition point in via the intermediate Kawasaki Northeast Yokohama. The stage is mostly very flat and at 21.3 km a little longer than a half marathon . A crucial point is the Rokugo Bridge between Ota and Kawasaki over the Tama River after about 18 kilometers, the slight descent of which is often used for attacks.

The fastest time so far on this section was Yuki Sato for Tokai University , who handed over after 1:01:06 h in 2007 and thus improved the long-standing record of Yasuyuki Watanabe ( Waseda University ) from 1994 by seven seconds.

Stage 2 (23.1 km)

Tsurumi , Yokohama - Totsuka , Yokohama

At 23.1 km, the longest stage follows on the first day, which is why universities traditionally often use their strongest runner. After a flat first half through the districts of Kanagawa and Nishi past Yokohama station , from kilometer 13, the so-called Gontazaka, the first longer ascent of Hakone Ekiden with about two kilometers of 50-60 meters in altitude, awaits . The next four kilometers lead again slightly downhill, then the route to the transition point in the Totsuka district remains wavy. Overall, there are more positive than negative meters to be mastered.

The Kenyan Vincent Yegon ( Tokyo International University ) has held the course record since 2021 with 1:05:49 h. He was eight seconds faster than Akira Aizawa ( Toyo University ) in the previous year, ahead of Aizawa the Kenyan Mekubo Mogusu ( Yamanashi Gakuin University ) held the record with 1:06:04 h in 2009.

Stage 3 (21.4 km)

Totsuka , Yokohama - Hiratsuka

The third stage leads on the first half out of Yokohama via Fujisawa to the south coast of Kanagawa prefecture . Along the Sagami Bay and with a view of the Fuji volcano , the coastal towns of Chigasaki and Hiratsuka are reached, the transition point is located in the latter. While the first nine kilometers are slightly downhill, it remains largely flat afterwards. Depending on the weather, the race can be influenced by sea ​​wind .

The Kenyan Vincent Yegon , who started for Tokyo International University , was the first athlete to stay under an hour in 2020 with 59:25 minutes; Homare Morita from Aoyama-Gakuin University achieved the old record with 1:01:26 hours last year.

Stage 4 (20.9 km)

Hiratsuka - Odawara

From 2006 to 2016 the distance of the fourth stage was 18.5 km, making it the shortest stage of the Hakone Ekiden. In 2017, the length returned to the previously existing, 2.5 km longer format, but without continuing the previous records from 2005 and earlier.

The route continues to follow the coastline at Sagami Bay, on the way to the change point in Odawara , the small towns of Oiso and Ninomiya are passed parallel to the Tokaido main line . In Odawara, the runners cross the Sakawa River and finally reach the transition point past the Odawara Castle and, on the last few kilometers, climbing slightly. Otherwise, topographically, the stage manages without major ascents and descents, even if several waves are overcome with a total of ten bridges.

The record on the current route was set by Yuya Yoshida from Aoyama Gakuin University in 2020 with 1:00:30 h, which is 24 seconds faster than Akira Aizawa ( Toyo University ) in the previous year. Kazuki Tamura (Aoyama Gakuin University) mastered the 18.5 km long previous version fastest in 54:28 minutes in 2015 and before 2006, Atsushi Fujita ( Komazawa University ) was the record holder with 1:00:56 hours in 1999.

Stage 5 (20.8 km)

Odawara - Lake Ashi , Hakone

Level crossing on the Hakone Tozan Line (2010)
Runner nearing the finish line (2012)

Day 1 ends with a mountain stage up to Lake Ashi in the area of ​​the small town of Hakone . On the way there, the route - soon arriving in Hakone bordering the Odawara - runs uphill from the start, although after a gentle start it becomes steeper between kilometers three and four as you pass Hakone-Yumoto station . Then it goes on partly serpentine roads upwards until finally after 16.2 km the highest point with 874 m is reached. The remaining four and a half kilometers lead downhill to the finish.

From 2006 to 2016, the stage was the longest of the ten stages due to the shift of the fifth changeover point with an initially specified 23.4 km. Follow-up measurements corrected the length to 23.2 km from 2015, although the route was lengthened by around 20 m from the same event due to a closed tunnel that was bypassed by a newly built road. In the eleven years, the long stage often had a decisive influence on the final result, so with the exception of 2016, the university, which was victorious on the first day, also had the fastest runner on the fifth stage every year during this period. Three particularly successful mountain runners , Masato Imai ( Juntendo University ; 2005–2007 used on the stage), Ryuji Kashiwabara ( Toyo University ; 2009–2012) and Daichi Kamino ( Aoyama Gakuin University ; 2015–2016) ran for several minutes on the competition and were given the nickname "Mountain God" ( Japanese 山 の 神 Yama no Kami ) as a result. With the 93rd edition in 2017, the organizing KGRR returned to the old format; the shortening to 20.8 km was justified with the high impact on the overall result and cases of hypothermia and hypoglycaemia .

Hayato Miyashita from Toyo University has the best time on the route that has been in use since 2017 with 1:10:25 h. Before the interim extension, Masato Imai crossed the finish line in 2005 on a very similar route after 1:09:12, improving the previous record by over two minutes. The four fastest times on the 23.4 km stage version (2006-2016) was achieved by Ryuji Kashiwabara, who finally set the track record of 1:17:18 h (2009) and 1:17:08 h (2010) to 1:16: 39 h (2012) and also won the overall ranking with Toyo University in these three years. Before Kashiwabara, Masato Imai held the best time with 1:18:05 h in 2007. The third of Kashiwabara and Imai as "mountain god" designated runner, Daichi Kamino was in 2015 on the nachgemessenen 23.2 km race with 1:16:15 h again slightly faster than Kashiwabara.

day 2

Stage 6 (20.8 km)

Lake Ashi , Hakone - Odawara

The starting shot on the second day is at 8:00 a.m. The starting runners from each university are sent individually with the time differences between the finish line on day 1, but after 10 minutes the universities that are further back start running together and the remaining time is added to the total time at the end. The route corresponds to that of the previous day, so the participants walk mostly downhill from Lake Ashi back to Odawara.

In contrast to the fifth stage, the route has not been extended to 23.4 km in the meantime, so there was a longer, uniform route record up to the 90th stage in 2014 - Kenta Chiba from Komazawa University needed the 20.8 in 2011 km 58:11 min. Ryoji Tatezawa achieved the best time since the tunnel bypass, which was added in 2015, for Tokai University in 2020 with 57:17 minutes.

Stage 7 (21.3 km)

Odawara - Hiratsuka

The seventh stage is 400 meters longer than the fourth stage of the previous day due to a slightly different route further away from the coast in the final part. The course record has been held by Hiroki Abe from Meiji University since 2020 , who needed 1:01:40 h and was 46 seconds faster than Keisuke Hayashi ( Aoyama Gakuin University ) two years earlier , who in turn was the later national marathon record holder Yuta Shitara from Toyo University (1:02:32; 2012).

Stage 8 (21.4 km)

Hiratsuka - Totsuka

The route of stage 8 is again identical to the reverse of stage 3. Accordingly, the runners leave the coast after the flat first part of the route and then reach the transition point in Totsuka via Fujisawa . After about 16 kilometers, there is a 500-meter-long climb waiting at the Yugyō-ji temple in Fujisawa, which is one of the steepest on the entire course.

The course record holder is Yohei Komatsu , who needed 1:03:49 h for Tokai University in 2019, 16 seconds faster than Tetsuhiro Furuta from Yamanashi Gakuin University 22 years earlier.

Stage 9 (23.1 km)

Totsuka , Yokohama - Tsurumi , Yokohama

The course of the route corresponds to that of the previous day, apart from a brief deviation towards the end of the stage, so that the length of the stage is given as 23.1 km as in stage 2. As on the second stage, the universities often used one of their stronger runners due to the length of the route. After a bumpy start, the Gontazaka is run downhill this time, after which it remains flat until the change.

The fastest time so far was achieved by Jun Shinoto from Chuo Gakuin University with 1:08:01 h in 2008.

Stage 10 (23.0 km)

Totsuka , Yokohama - Ōtemachi , Tokyo

The largely flat final stage takes the runners back to Tokyo. It is identical to the first stage right up to the end, in this the course turns a bit behind the Hibiya Park - instead of continuing straight towards the goal - to the east, then leads north through Kyobashi and Nihombashi , to finally start again to the west. and to reach the end point in front of the Yomiuri Shinbun building .

The best time is held by Yudai Shimazu from Soka University , who was 19 seconds faster in 2020 with 1:08:40 h than Genta Matsuse from Juntendo University in 2007.

statistics

Overall winner

Victory universities since the first staging in 1920. The record winner is Chuo University with fourteen victories, twelve of which were between 1948 and 1964. This is followed by Waseda University with thirteen and Nihon University with twelve successes, both of which were also largely achieved in the first half of the competition. The eleven times successful Juntendo University and the ten times successful Nippon Taiiku University still have double-digit victory numbers . The currently dominant Aoyama Gakuin University took part in the Hakone Ekiden for the first time in 33 years and, after several top 10 placings in the following years, won the 2015 event for the first time in its history.

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.: Tln number of participating universities

year Out. university Part.
1920 1. Tokyo Higher Normal School 4th
1921 2. Meiji University 7th
1922 3. Waseda University 10
1923 4th Waseda -2- 9
1924 5. Meiji -2- 9
1925 6th Meiji -3- 10
1926 7th Chuo University 7th
1927 8th. Waseda -3- 5
1928 9. Meiji -4- 10
1929 10. Meiji -5- 9
1930 11. Waseda -4- 9
1931 12. Waseda -5- 10
1932 13. Keio University 9
1933 14th Waseda -6- 11
1934 15th Waseda -7- 13
1935 16. Nihon University 13
1936 17th Nihon -2- 14th
1937 18th Nihon -3- 14th
1938 19th Nihon -4- 12
1939 20th Senshu University 10
1940 21st Nihon -5- 10
1941 no event
1942
1943 22nd Nihon -6- 11
1944 no event
1945
1946
1947 23. Meiji -6- 10
1948 24. Chuo -2- 12
1949 25th Meiji -7- 12
1950 26th Chuo -3- 14th
1951 27. Chuo -4- 11
1952 28. Waseda -8- 14th
1953 29 Chuo -5- 14th
1954 30th Waseda -9- 15th
1955 31. Chuo -6- 15th
1956 32. Chuo -7- 15th
1957 33. Nihon -7- 15th
1958 34. Nihon -8- 15th
1959 35. Chuo -8- 16
1960 36. Chuo -9- 15th
1961 37. Chuo -10- 15th
1962 38. Chuo -11- 15th
1963 39. Chuo -12- 15th
1964 40. Chuo -13- 17th
1965 41. Nihon -9- 15th
1966 42. Juntendo University 15th
1967 43. Nihon -10- 15th
1968 44. Nihon -11- 15th
1969 45. Nippon Taiiku University 15th
1970 46. Nippon Taiiku -2- 15th
1971 47. Nippon Taiiku -3- 15th
1972 48. Nippon Taiiku -4- 15th
1973 49. Nippon Taiiku -5- 15th
1974 50. Nihon -12- 20th
1975 51. Daito Bunka University 15th
1976 52. Daito Bunka -2- 15th
1977 53. Nippon Taiiku -6- 15th
1978 54. Nippon Taiiku -7- 15th
1979 55. Juntendo -2- 15th
1980 56. Nippon Taiiku -8- 15th
1981 57. Juntendo -3- 15th
1982 58. Juntendo -4- 15th
1983 59. Nippon Taiiku -9- 15th
1984 60. Waseda -10- 20th
1985 61. Waseda -11- 15th
1986 62. Juntendo -5- 15th
1987 63. Juntendo -6- 15th
1988 64. Juntendo -7- 15th
1989 65. Juntendo -8- 15th
1990 66. Daito Bunka -3- 15th
1991 67. Daito Bunka -4- 15th
1992 68. Yamanashi Gakuin University 15th
1993 69. Waseda -12- 15th
1994 70. Yamanashi Gakuin -2- 20th
1995 71. Yamanashi Gakuin -3- 15th
1996 72. Chuo -14- 15th
1997 73. Kanagawa University 15th
1998 74. Kanagawa -2- 15th
1999 75. Juntendo -9- 15th
2000 76. Komazawa University 15th
2001 77. Juntendo -10- 15th
2002 78. Komazawa -2- 15th
2003 79. Komazawa -3- 19th
2004 80. Komazawa -4- 19th
2005 81. Komazawa -5- 19th
2006 82. Asia University 19th
2007 83. Juntendo -11- 19th
2008 84. Komazawa -6- 19th
2009 85. Toyo University 22nd
2010 86. Toyo -2- 19th
2011 87. Waseda -13- 19th
2012 88 Toyo -3- 19th
2013 89. Nippon Taiiku -10- 19th
2014 90. Toyo -4- 23
2015 91. Aoyama Gakuin University 20th
2016 92. Aoyama Gakuin -2- 20th
2017 93. Aoyama Gakuin -3- 20th
2018 94. Aoyama Gakuin -4- 20th
2019 95. Tokai University 22nd
2020 96. Aoyama Gakuin -5- 20th
2021 97. Komazawa -7- 20th

Course records

Course records of the current stages as of 2021.

stage length time runner university Event
1 21.3 km 1:01:16 h Yuki Sato Tokai University 83rd (2007)
2 23.1 km 1:05:49 h Vincent Yegon ( KEN ) Tokyo International University 97th (2021)
3 21.4 km 59:25 min Vincent Yegon ( KEN ) Tokyo International University 96th (2020)
4th 20.9 km 1:00:30 h Yuya Yoshida Aoyama Gakuin University 96th (2020)
5 20.8 km 1:10:25 h Hayato Miyashita Toyo University 96th (2020)
6th 20.8 km 57:17 min Ryoji Tatezawa Tokai University 96th (2020)
7th 21.3 km 1:01:40 h Hiroki Abe Meiji University 96th (2020)
8th 21.4 km 1:03:49 h Yohei Komatsu Tokai University 95th (2019)
9 23.1 km 1:08:01 h Jun Shinoto Chuo Gakuin University 84th (2008)
10 23.0 km 1:08:40 h Yudai Shimazu Soka University 96th (2020)

Shiso Kanaguri Trophy

The award named after Shiso Kanaguri has been awarded to the “ Most Valuable Player ” since 2004 .

Aus .: discharge

year Out. runner university
2004 80. Koji Kanegae Tsukuba University
2005 81. Masato Imai Juntendo University
2006 82. Masato Imai -2- Juntendo University -2-
2007 83. Yuki Sato Tokai University
Masato Imai -3- Juntendo University -3-
2008 84. Jun Shinoto Chuo Gakuin University
2009 85. Ryuji Kashiwabara Toyo University
2010 86. Ryuji Kashiwabara -2- Toyo University -2-
2011 87. Akinobu Murasawa Tokai University -2-
2012 88 Ryuji Kashiwabara -3- Toyo University -3-
2013 89. Shota Hattori Nippon Taiiku University
2014 90. Kento Otsu Toyo University -4-
2015 91. Daichi Kamino Aoyama Gakuin University
2016 92. Kazuma Kubota Aoyama Gakuin University -2-
2017 93. Kiyohito Akiyama Nippon Taiiku University -2-
2018 94. Keisuke Hayashi Aoyama Gakuin University -3-
2019 95. Yohei Komatsu Tokai University -3-
2020 96. Akira Aizawa Toyo University -5-
2021 97. Vincent Yegon ( KEN ) Tokyo International University

Popular culture

The 2006 novel Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru by Shion Miura is about a student club that wants to take part in the Hakone Ekiden. It was adapted as an anime , manga and feature film, the anime series produced in 2018 was also released internationally under the title Run with the Wind .

Web links

Commons : Hakone Ekiden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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