Not 1, Not 2, but 3. Yes, the top 3 men break Japanese national record at 2023 Japanese National Championship 10000 Champs!!

What?? 36 second PR for Kazuya Shiojiri????

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Kazuya SHIOJIRI, Japan - 3000 Metres, 5000 Metres, 10,000 Metres, 2000 Metres Steeplechase, 3000 Metres Steeplechase, 1500 Metres, 10 Miles Road, Half Marathon

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Japanese sub-27 is coming soon. Only a matter of time. There is a new national record holder every 6 months.

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Monstrous results

27:09.80/27:12.53/27:13.04

12 sub 28:00.

They're pretty good in the 10 but in the 5 still way behind France

Hopefully they can contend for a medal next year. Too often the Japanese blaze at home and then choke on the world scene.

Big race for them but contending for a medal is a bit of a stretch. Fisher and Ahmed have run 26:33/26:34 and neither have medaled at 10k; Kincaid and Klecker have run under 27:09 and neither have come anywhere near medaling. Plus, you need some serious finishing wheels to medal that I doubt these guys have.

Big PR from Kazuya Shiojiri but he's been having a good year. Shiojiri runs for Fujitsu and was a steeplechaser at the Rio Olympics but raced the 5000 in Budapest.

Great runs by Tomoki Ota and Akira Aizawa too.

Ota (Toyota Motors) has been having an amazing year with 13:20 and 1:00:08 PBs this year. Aizawa (Asahi Kasei) is returning from injury and even though his NR was broken I suspect he's pleased with a PB.

Cool to see this race go faster than the loaded (mainly Kenyan) Hachioji meet a few weeks ago. The pacer today Kiprono Sitonik ran a PR and was about 12 seconds faster than Hachioji.

New Year's Ekiden will be interesting...

Including the terrific 20yo Haruka Kokai.

For context, the US Collegiate Record is 31:18, no European-born U23 has ever run faster than 31:11 and the USA U23 record would be Alicia Monson's 31:10.8 when she was 22. And Haruka still has 2 more years as a U23 !

After a couple of excellent ekiden legs last winter I predicted a big track breakthrough for her this year but I didn't imagine sub-31 this year! I was thinking more 31-mid for this race (previous PB 32:02 from May).

Also, 14 Japanese women in total broke 32 mins in this race. The previous most in one race was 10.

Hmmmm interesting how Japanese running suddenly took off a couple years after Fukushima, and keeps getting better. I've seen enough X-Men movies to understand whats going on here.

Fact: COVID nanobots adhere to the receptors in persons of Asiatic descent far better than any other race; thus these are not men, but cyborgs, and are not eligible to medal anyway.

Is this serious? The winner just set a National Record and still missed the OLY qualifying standard by 9s+. Use your brain.

Well this is a bit harsh. The person is hoping they can contend for a medal next year. But as you point out hope is not a plan. But if I said I hope our next President is under 75 years old, one can hope for things that are not likely. So calm down.

i've been watching too much office lately, i imagined that in dwights voice perfectly

So 3 guys slower than Klecker. Isn’t that pretty pathetic? I mean we are talking the US not some distance power….

Highly unlikely will the Japanese be contenders in O.G/W.C. No kick, and out psyched when they reach Olympic Games. Time and again I've seen Japanese male 10,000 runners finish near the back in Championships, often running around 29:00, despite having PB's 1 minute faster, or even in the mid 27's.

The Japanese are the masters of time trialing races in Japan, in cool conditions (hence these 10,000 races in winter). Does not transfer to big meetings abroad. Sad.

Just so you know, no one has been able to run faster than Fisher in the last 3 years. No one. Whatever distance power you think there is they have no one that can run faster.

anybody know what's up with seira fuwa?

And in the last 50 years what is the US medal count in the 5k/10k in the Olympics/wc? And how many of them are done by imported Kenyans?