Special feature: 100th Hakone Ekiden
4years.Editorial Department
2023/12/29
(Last update: 2023/12/29)
Reishi Yoshida of Chuo Gakuin University entered in the 2nd ward (photographed by Misa Fujii)
The section entries for the 100th Hakone Ekiden to be held on January 2nd and 3rd, 2024 were announced on the 29th. The race is a 217.1km round trip with 10 sections. As with last time, changes to the number of regular competitors and substitute competitors on the day can be made up to 6 people, and the maximum number of people who can be changed in a day is 4. Changes will be accepted until 1 hour and 10 minutes before the start of the race. This article introduces the 13 schools that earned the right to participate in the preliminary round.
[Click here for the seed school version]Hakone Ekiden section entry: Pay attention to the “mountain climbing” showdown between Yuito Yamamoto and Hibiki Yoshida
1st place in qualifying round Daito Bunka University
Daito Bunka University has qualified for the finals after finishing in the top spot for the second year in a row. The All-Japan University Ekiden has gained seeding rights for the first time in 18 years and is gaining momentum. Toru Kubota, who placed 2nd on the qualifying team, entered the 2nd ward. Shunsuke Kikuchi and Yuki Satake, who were in charge of the 5th and 6th wards in the last tournament, were placed in the same section this time as well. Peter Wanjiru, who played in Ward 2 last time, and Chisei Nishikawa, who placed first on the qualifying team, will be substitutes and there is a possibility that they will be appointed on the day.
Sash relay from Otani (right) to Kikuchi at the All-Japan University Ekiden. Successfully acquired seed rights (Photo by Kohei Saeki)
District 1 Miyakura Knight (1st year, study tour center)
Ward 2 Toru Kubota (4th year, Seibo Gakuen)
Enter Haohui University in District 3 (2nd year, Qiongpu)
Ward 4 Akaboshi Ryumai (2nd year, Saitama Sakae)
Ward 5 Kikuchi Shunsuke (4th year, Sendai Ikuei)
Ward 6 Yuki Satake (4th year, Mt. Hiei)
Ward 7 Mikihiro Fujiwara (1st year, Tokai University Sapporo)
Ward 8 Yudai Matsumoto (2nd year, Kusatsu East)
District 9 Akira Otani (3rd year, Shuicheng)
Ward 10 Masato Sasaki (3rd year, Daito University)
Substitute
Kyohei Oda (3rd year, Mito Aoiryo)
Chisei Nishikawa (3rd year, attached to Kyukoku University)
Yugo Nishidai (3rd year, Okegawa)
Peter Wanjiru (3rd year, Sendai Ikuei)
Kaito Terui (2nd year, Ichinoseki Academy)
Ichiraku Munakata (1st year, Hirosaki Jitsugyo)
2nd place in qualifying round: Meiji University
This will be Hakone Road’s first time under Go Yamamoto, the Ekiden coach who took over the position midway through this season. Ace Maki Kodama entered the 2nd ward, Ayaka Sugi, who won the 7th ward section award, entered the 3rd ward, and Kazuki Aya, who placed 3rd on the qualifying team, entered the 8th ward. Hibiki Yoshikawa, who had experience last time, was placed in the 5th section of mountain climbing. Shota Morishita, who placed 4th in the 3rd section of the last tournament, is an alternate. The team aims to compete for the top spots in each section and secure seeding rights for the first time in four years.
Morishita ran in the second ward of the All-Japan University Ekiden as a member of the Japan Gakuren Federation (Photo by Kohei Saeki)
District 1 Hiiragi Sho Ominato (1st year, studying Ishikawa)
Ward 2 Maki Kodama (4th year, Kamakura Gakuen)
Ward 3 Bunkai Sugi (4th year, Tosu Industries)
Ward 4 Ryosuke Kai (3rd year, Miyazaki Nihon University)
Ward 5 Hibiki Yoshikawa (2nd year, Sera)
Ward 6 Horisuke (2nd year, Sendai Ikuei)
Ward 7 Takumi Saito (4th year, Funabashi City)
Ward 8 Kazuki Aya (1st year, Yachiyo Shoin)
Ward 9 Yuta Suzuki (3rd year, Kamakura Gakuen)
District 10 Mizogami Ryto (3rd year, Kyushu College)
Substitute
Motoki Hashimoto (4th year, Sendai Matsudo)
Yuichiro Baba (4th year, Chukyo University Chukyo)
Kento Ozaki (3rd year, Hamamatsu Commercial)
Kosuke Furui (2nd year, Hamamatsu Nittai)
Shota Morishita (2nd year, Sera)
Itsuki Yamamoto (2nd year, Sendai Matsudo)
Meiji University’s Maki Kodama and Aya Bunkai Sugi Aim for top 8th place, centering on these two who had a bright spot in the previous Hakone Ekiden
3rd place in qualifying round: Teikyo University
This season started with “zero” scheduled relay races. Hiroo Yamanaka, who placed 6th in the All Japan 2nd section, will be placed in the 2nd ward of the Ace section, and Ryota Shibato, who placed 6th in the 3rd ward section, will be placed in the 3rd ward. Captains Shota Nishiwaki and Ryuichiro Ono, who have been leading the team, and Sho Fukuda, who ran a half marathon in the 1 hour 2 minute range, will be substitutes, and there is a possibility of changes on the day. “The world’s worst team to give up” aims to regain the seeding rights.
Captain Nishiwaki receives a sash from Shibato (left) during the All-Japan University Ekiden (Photo by Yumi Asano)
District 1 Saki Teru Hayatani (4 years, Shiratani Oashikaga)
Ward 2 Hiroo Yamanaka (3rd year, Kusatsu East)
Ward 3 Shibato Ryota (2nd year, Oita Tomei)
Ward 4 Kaito Suetsugu (4th year, Tosu Industries)
Ward 5 Jinya Ozaki (2nd year, Tokai University Fukuoka)
6th Ward Yusuke Daikichi (4th year, Funabashi City)
Ward 7 Takashima Ozora (3rd year, Ryukei Daikashiwa)
District 8 Koki Shimada (2nd year, Takada)
Ward 9 Daisei Kobayashi (3rd year, Chinzei Gakuin)
Ward 10 Takumu Hidaka (4th year, Tsurusaki Industries)
Substitute
Ryuichiro Ono (4th year, Hokkaido Sakae)
Nishiwaki Shota (4 years old, famous name Otakazo)
Takuma Iwamoto (3rd year, Nishiwaki Kogyo)
Sho Fukuda (3rd year, Sera)
Shutaro Onishi (1st year, Sendai Ikuei)
Riku Hirota (1st year, Hokkaido Sakae)
Teikyo University aims to regain seeding rights in Hakone Ekiden; Captain Shota Nishiwaki: “I have a lot of friends I can rely on.”
4th place in qualifying round Nippon Sport Science University
Nippon Sport Science University has been participating for 76 consecutive years. Ren Yamaguchi, who achieved a personal best in the qualifying round, will be placed in the second ward and compete against the aces from each school. Jo Yamazaki, who has the team’s top time in the 10,000m race, is in the 3rd ward. Hiroo Miyoshi, a fourth-year student, and Ryuta Tominaga, a third-year student, have entered in the special sections 5 and 6. Noriki Urushihata, the captain who leads the team, was substituted.
Yamaguchi tops the team at the Hakone Ekiden preliminaries (photographed by Misa Fujii)
Ward 1 Ryuto Hirashima (2nd year, Aihiro)
Ward 2 Ren Yamaguchi (3rd year, Omuta)
Ward 3 Jo Yamazaki (2nd year, Chuetsu)
Ward 4 Ryuta Omori (4th year, Konan Tamano)
Ward 5 Hiroo Miyoshi (4th year, Hiroshima Minami)
Ward 6 Ryuta Tominaga (3rd year, Hajime Hokoda)
Ward 7 Reida Reita (1st year, Saitama Sakae)
Ward 8 Kazuki Urakami (2nd year, Kyushu Academy)
9th Ward Shingo Tanaka (4th year, Iga Hakuho)
District 10 Kouta Uematsu (3rd year, Saku Nagasei)
Substitute
Noriki Urushibata (4th year, Yamanashi Gakuin)
Ryume Ishikawa (3rd year, Meikei Otakazo)
Kuniya Sugimoto (3rd year, Shimada)
Sota Sumihara (3rd year, Toyokawa Institute of Technology)
Feng Xu Zunji (3rd year, sophomore at Dongnong University)
Shunsuke Tajima (2nd year, Asahino)
5th place in qualifying round: Nihon University
Nihon University has decided to participate in the main tournament for the first time in four years with new coach Masahiro Shin. Shota Nishimura, who entered the Kanto Student Union team in the last race, entered in the 1st division, 2nd place in the Japan intercollegiate 10,000m, and Shadrack Kipkemei, who placed 1st overall in the qualifying round, entered in the 2nd division. In the mountain section, Yu Ohashi was placed in the 5th ward and Tsukihiro Yamaguchi was placed in the 6th ward. I want to break into the top ranks as much as possible.
Kipkemei finished in first place overall in the qualifying round (photographed by Shota Inoue)
District 1 Nishimura Shota (4th year, Chigusa)
Ward 2 Shadrack Kipkemei (1st year, Irigitati)
Ward 3 Yusuke Tomita (2nd year, Kusatsu Higashi)
District 4 Kubo Shoyo (4 years, Matsuyama Commercial)
Ward 5 Yu Ohashi (3rd year, Ogaki Nihon University)
Ward 6 Tsukihiro Yamaguchi (2nd year, Tottori Johoku)
Area 7 Yamanaka Taichi (4 years, Narita)
Ward 8 Keita Amano (1st year, Okazaki Josai)
Ward 9 Zenta Katagiri (1st year, Chuetsu)
Ward 10 Ryuhei Onaka (2nd year, Kitayama)
Substitute
Yuma Shimoo (4th year, Municipal Gifu Commercial)
Takumi Doi (4th year, Toyama Commercial)
Fuu Ando (3rd year, Kagoshima Jitsugyo)
Koushi Suzuki (2nd year, Chuetsu)
Hoshine Nakazawa (2nd year, Ichinoseki Academy)
Sota Yamaguchi (1st year, Sano Nihon University)
6th place in qualifying round Rikkyo University
Rikkyo University will be participating for the second consecutive year. Kotaro Hayashi, who ran in the previous race, was entered in the 1st ward, Hiroto Kuniyasu in the 2nd ward, Kento Baba in the 3rd ward, Kaiian Hattori in the 7th ward, and Keisuke Ando in the 9th ward. The 10,000m team leader, Junta Sekiguchi, was substituted. In the last tournament, I placed 18th overall. Will they be able to put on a memorable sash relay at the 100th competition, which coincides with the university’s 100th anniversary?
Team tops Sekiguchi (number 100) and Baba (number 110) at the Hakone Ekiden qualifying round, photo by Misa Fujii
District 1 Linhu Dalang (3 years, Omuta)
District 2 Kokuan Hirato (2nd year, Suma Academy)
Ward 3 Kento Baba (2nd year, Omuta)
District 4 Kenmasa Goto (3rd year, Ikuei Sendai)
Ward 5 Kentaro Kishimoto (4th year, Suma Gakuen)
Ward 6 Sodai Harada (1st year, Rakunan)
District 7 Hattori Kaixing (4th year, Saku Nagasei)
Ward 8 Shiro Yamaguchi (3rd year, Yokkaichi Kogyo)
Ward 9 Keisuke Ando (3rd year, Toyokawa)
Ward 10 Koki Nakanishi (3rd year, Kokugakuin Kugayama)
Substitute
Junta Sekiguchi (4th year, Kokugakuin Kugayama)
Yuji Tadauchi (4th year, Sendai Matsudo)
Rinto Nakayama (4th year, Kyushu College)
Daisuke Inazuka (3rd year, Takaoka Koryo)
Rasho Yamamoto (3rd year, Matsuura)
Yusuke Yoshiya (2nd year, Hiroshima International Academy)
Rikkyo University Hakone Ekiden members take on the challenge with 150th anniversary training students, deciding which section they will run in
7th place in qualifying round Kanagawa University
Old powerhouse Kanagawa University will be participating for the first time in two years. Senior students Riku Makita and Atsushi Utsuno were placed in the 1st and 3rd wards, respectively, the same as two years ago. Captain Atsutaka Kobayashi, who ran well in the All Japan Japan Gakuren selection team, finishing 3rd in the 3rd section, Mahiro Oizumi, who ran in the 8th section in the previous race, and Haruka Miyamoto, a powerful underclassman, were substitutes, and on the day. is expected to be appointed.
Kobayashi contributed to her return to the main race by finishing in 13th place, the top of the team in the Hakone qualifying round (Photo by Misa Fujii)
Ward 1 Riko Tsukuda (4th year, Matsuyama Commercial)
Ward 2 Hajime Hanai (1st year, Toyokawa Institute of Technology)
District 3 Utsuno Atsushi (4th year, Saku Chosei)
District 4 Ogata Kato (4th year, Jiyugaoka)
Ward 5 Atsushi Iizuka (3rd year, Hamamatsu Commercial)
Ward 6 Ayumu Oiwa (4th year, Aichi Gakuin Aichi)
Ward 7 Niizuma Reiou (1st year, Nishiwaki Kogyo)
District 8 Takahashi Galaxy (4th year, Akita Industrial)
District 9 Mihara Ryoya (1st year, Hidaka)
Ward 10 Daichi Ishiguchi (3rd year, Saitama Sakae)
Substitute
Mahiro Oizumi (4th year, Tokai Oyamagata)
Atsuki Kobayashi (4th year, Yokkaichi Kogyo)
Ryosuke Sasaki (4th year, Tosu Industries)
Yuto Nakahara (3rd year, Chiben Gakuen Nara College)
Kensei Sakai (2nd year, Aichi Gakuin Aichi)
Haruka Miyamoto (2nd year, Rakunan)
8th place in qualifying round Kokushikan University
This season, he will be running on the Hakone route, making use of his experience on the Ise route, which he competed in for the first time in seven years. Captain Raiga Yamamoto, who won the “Fastest Slope Championship 2023”, was duly entered into the 5th ward. In the 2nd ward, Peter Kamau continued from the previous competition. Ryujin Yamamoto, who has been running in Hakone since his first year, and Naoyuki Ikoma, who finished second on the qualifying team, are acting as alternates.
Kamau has the fastest 10,000m and half times at Kokushikan University (left, photo by Kohei Saeki)
District 1 Mizuno Ryugo (2nd year, Kobayashi)
Ward 2 Peter Kamau (3rd year, Kagira)
Ward 3 Yokota Sena (2nd year, Tamura)
Ward 4 Ryota Matsui (3rd year, Miyazaki Nihon University)
5th Ward Raiga Yamamoto (4th year, Tsuruga Kehi)
Ward 6 Aida Katsube (2nd year, Yonago Shoin)
Ward 7 Shosei Segawa (2nd year, Saitama Sakae)
Ward 8 Akiyo Tomioka (2nd year, Tamura)
9th Ward Yuga Kawakatsu (2nd year, Rakunan)
Ward 10 Shinya Suzuki (3rd year, Mizuki)
Substitute
Chinese and Western are so great (died after 4 years)
Ryujin Yamamoto (4th year, Yonago Shoin)
Atsushi Namatame (3rd year, Tamura)
Daichi Nishida (3rd year, Saitama Sakae)
Daiki Watanabe (3rd year, Kobayashi)
Naoyuki Ikoma (2nd year, Tokuei Hanasaki)
9th place in qualifying round Chuo Gakuin University
Participating in the main tournament for the first time in two years. Ace Reishi Yoshida, who came in second place among Japanese in the qualifying round, will enter the second ward, and we are looking forward to the showdown with the aces from each school. Hidetora Ito, who was 2nd in the qualifying round and ran a time in the 1 hour 2 minute range, and Takumu Kudo, who finished 4th in the 6th section the day before last, are substitutes and may be changed on the day of the race. We hope to get off to a good start by appointing rookie Jun Inami, who ran a time in the 1 hour 2 minute range in the Ageo half, to the 1st section.
Chikada was third on his team at the Hakone Ekiden qualifying round (Photo by Shota Inoue)
Ward 1 Jun Inami (1st year, Nishiwaki Kogyo)
2nd Ward Reishi Yoshida (3rd year, Takudai Koryo)
Ward 3 Souto Maehara (1st year, Kitayama)
Ward 4 Shun Sakamoto (2nd year, Kashima Gakuen)
Ward 5 Daiki Shibata (3rd year, Nishijoyo)
District 6 Komatsu Yudalang (2 years, Shuicheng)
Ward 7, Hota Seirei (3rd year, Senharadai)
8th Ward Taiyo Ichikawa (1st year, Koma)
Ward 9 Chikada Yoji (2nd year, Toyokawa)
Ward 10 Maeshinjo Ushin (4th year, Shiga Gakuen)
Substitute
Tatsuya Iizuka (4th year, Higashiharima)
Hidetora Ito (4th year, Yokkaichi Kogyo)
Kudo Takumi (3rd year, Nasu Takuyo)
Qing Shui Meng (3 years, Gui)
Yuzen Kuroiwa (2nd year, Musashi Ogose)
Yu Kurotani (2nd year, Chuetsu)
10th place in qualifying round: Tokai University
Ace Shotaro Ishihara, who is in his last year, has entered in the 7th ward. Growing second-year students, Judah Hyodo, will be appointed as the 1st ward, and Toshiya Hanaoka will be the 2nd ward. The promising rookie Yuta Minamisaka is in the 8th ward. Shunsuke Kihaya, a fourth-year student, is running in the 5th ward, and if he runs on that day, it will be his first and last run on the Hakone route. Captain Yota Koshi has been substituted. He is on the upswing, finishing ninth at the nationals and close to being seeded.
Hanaoka (left) and Takewari connecting the sashes at the All-Japan University Ekiden (Photo by Kohei Saeki)
Ward 1 Judah Hyodo (2nd year, Tokai University Shizuoka Shohiro)
Ward 2 Hisaya Hanaoka (2nd year, Ueda Nishi)
Ward 3 Yosei Saeki (4th year, Iga Hakuho)
Ward 4 Kenta Nojima (3rd year, Ryukei Daikashiwa)
Ward 5 Shunsuke Kihaya (4th year, Sendai Ikuei)
Ward 6 Korai Matsuo (4th year, Nishiwaki Kogyo)
Ward 7 Shotaro Ishihara (4th year, Kurashiki)
Ward 8 Minamisaka Yuta (1st year, Kurashiki)
Ward 9 Yuki Orikuchi (4th year, Chiben Wakayama)
10th Ward Rohoman Shumon (2nd year, Municipal Tachibana)
Substitute
Yuto Kajitani (3rd year, Shiga Gakuen)
Yue Yang Tai (3 years, Saku Changsheng)
Tenchi Suzuki (2nd year, Ichinoseki Academy)
Takekarima (2nd year, Kyushu Academy)
Hajime Yunogawa (2nd year, Tokai University Sagami)
Osamu Nagamoto (1st year, Kyushu Gakuin)
Will Tokai University’s Yota Koshi and Shotaro Ishihara return to the Hakone Ekiden? Director Ryokakusoku: “Finally, we have the actors.”
11th place in qualifying round Tokyo University of Agriculture
Tokyo University of Agriculture decided to participate in the finals for the first time in 10 years. Super rookie Kazuma Maeda will be substituted, and attention will be focused on which section he will be used in on the day. Captain Yoshiteru Takatsuki was also substituted. Nane Namiki was placed in the 2nd ward of the ace section. In the special section, Soto Yoshimura, a fourth-year student who participated in the “Gekki Slope Fastest King Tournament 2023,” has been entered in the 5th section.
In addition to Maeda, who was the top Japanese in the preliminaries, fourth-year students Namiki and Takatsuki will be the three pillars (Photo by Shota Inoue)
1st Ward Tomoya Mii (3rd year, Hozen)
2nd Ward Nene Namiki (4th year, Tokyo Jitsugyo)
Ward 3 Shin Hasebe (4th year, studying Ishikawa)
Ward 4 Yosuke Harada (2nd year, Kamakura Gakuen)
Ward 5: Yoshimura Satoru (4th year, Kamakura Gakuen)
Ward 6 Shunta Uetsuki (1st year, Kurashiki)
Ward 7 Rio Tanaka (4th year, piper)
Ward 8 Yusho Takashima (3rd year, Saitama Sakae)
Ward 9 Yu Fukahori (2nd year, Tosu Kogyo)
Ward 10 Koki Kurimoto (1st year, Gifu Prefectural Commercial)
Substitute
Yoshiteru Takatsuki (4th year, Academic Law Ishikawa)
Torataro Matsumoto (4th year, Seibudai Chiba)
Shoma Sugawara (2nd year, Kurashiki)
Tsuburaya Lisheng (2nd year, studying Ishikawa)
Tomoki Yoshimura (2nd year, Tokyo Jitsugyo)
Kazuma Maeda (1st year, Hotoku Gakuen)
12th place in qualifying round Surugadai University
This is his second appearance in two years. Norio Furuhashi, who placed 3rd in the preliminary round, was entered in the 3rd ward. As for the international student slot, Msanga Godfrey was entered in Ward 4, and Stephen Lemayan was substituted. Shunshin Niiyama, who has experience in Hakone and finished second on the qualifying team, was also substituted. I hope to achieve a better result than my 19th place overall two years ago.
Niiyama finished 29th overall in the Hakone qualifying round, giving him momentum for the final round (Photo by Misa Fujii)
District 1 Oki Kantaro (2nd year, Matsuyama Commercial)
Ward 2 Waseda Ren (2nd year, Kagoshima)
Ward 3 Norio Furuhashi (1st year, Iga Hakuho)
Ward 4 Musanga Godfrey (2nd year, Shanditee)
District 5 Kurashima Kaito (2 years, North Vietnam)
Ward 6 Yuyo Shioji (2nd year, Tanabe Kogyo)
Ward 7 Ryota Kato (3rd year, Yamagata Chuo)
Ward 8 Itsuki Okazaki (2nd year, Chukyo)
District 9 Nagata Takumi (2nd year, studying Ishikawa)
Ward 10 Shunsho Kubo (1st year, Kagoshima)
Substitute
Shunshin Niiyama (4th year, Kagoshima)
Ryoi Yamauchi (4th year, Hamamatsu Nippon Sports Festival)
Koto Sakamoto (2nd year, Iga Hakuho)
Dongquan Dahe (2nd year, Dongnong sophomore)
Sora Fujii (2nd year, Nishiwaki Kogyo)
Steven Lemayan (1st year, Ndabibi)
Preliminary Tournament 13th place: Yamanashi Gakuin University
This is his fourth consecutive year of participation, and he placed 14th overall last time. Atsuo Kitamura, who placed 18th overall in the qualifying round, will be in the 1st section, and international student Brian Kipiego, who has a record of 10,000m in 27 minutes, will be in the 2nd section, hoping to get as high as possible from the first half. Will Seikei Yuge, who came in 2nd place in the “Fastest Slope Championship 2023”, be able to make his presence felt in mountain climbing?
Tokuda (No. 50, photo by Shota Inoue) finished 3rd on his team at the Hakone Ekiden qualifying round.
Ward 1 Atsuo Kitamura (4th year, Sera)
District 2 Brian Kipiego (1st year, Kapkatet)
Ward 3 Shoei Takagi (4th year, Kumamoto Industrial)
Ward 4 Yuta Shimazu (4th year, Kuri Gakuen)
Ward 5 Seikei Yuge (2nd year, Rakunan)
Ward 6 Naoki Takada (3rd year, wreath)
Ward 7 Ryunosuke Yokoyama (4th year, Omagari Kogyo)
Ward 8 Shun Shinmoto (3rd year, Hotoku Gakuen)
Ward 9 Mitsuki Hirayae (2nd year, Kagoshima Jitsugyo)
10th Ward Occupybu Yamato (1 year, 9 industry Daikyushu)
Substitute
Masaki Kawahara (4th year, Tokai Oyamagata)
Onishiriku (3rd year, Sera)
Akito Tokuda (3rd year, Fukuoka Ichi)
James Mutuku (2nd year, Ngoni)
Rikuto Tsukamoto (2nd year, Akisei Fujieda)
Eito Wada (1st year, Yamanashi Gakuin)
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