Today's national high school relay roads
The "National High School Ekiden", which connects high school runners to Kyoto as their master, will be held on the 22nd.
The race will be held on the same course as last year with the start and finish of Takebishi Stadium Kyoto in Kyoto City, with 47 girls participating in the preliminaries in each prefecture participating, and 70 men's commemoration tournaments of 11 58 schools will participate, including district representatives.
Of these, the boys who connect the same distance as the marathon with 7 people, five teams have recorded good times less than 2 hours 5 minutes in qualifying in each place, and high level races are expected.
Among them, Kurashiki High School in Okayama aiming for the second consecutive victory with international students from Kenya, Sendai Ikuei High School in Miyagi, which marked the fastest 2 hours 2 minutes in qualifying, and the average time of 5,000 meters of entry players is No. 1 in Japan. Sakucho Seigaku High School in Nagano has power.
In addition, three of the women who run half the distance of boys with five people remain last year, and Kamimura Gakuen, who is 6 seconds away from the Ekiden high school record in Kagoshima qualifying, is the top candidate.
Other top candidates include Sendai Ikuei High School in Miyagi, which aims to win for the first time in two years, and Ritsumeikan Uji High School in Kyoto, which ranks first in Japan for an average of 3000 meters.
On the other hand, due to the problem that iron injections were used to improve the competitiveness at some of the strongest schools in Ekiden, the athletes received blood tests within 5 days from the day after the tournament and received the results. Reporting was required.
The race starts at 10:20 am for girls and starts at 0:30 pm for boys. NHK will broadcast on the first TV and radio, and will tell you about the race on a PC or smartphone.