2021 World Results

[LuckySpikes]

I've really been enjoying the new World Cross Country Tour. Having the Gold meetings live streamed on the WA YouTube channel hasn't yet materialised as promised (maybe they're working on that for next season) but it's still been possible to watch all the meetings so far, except for the Silver meeting in Tilburg. That Tour continues this Sunday at Venta de Banos in Spain.

And the new World Race Walking Tour is taking shape nicely, set to start this weekend in Dublin.

There's 15 meetings on the Race Walking Tour so far:

Gold
Podebrady (CZE)
Warsaw (POL)
Taicang (CHN)
Dudince (SVK)
Rio Maior (POR)
La Coruna (ESP)
Suzhou (CHN)

Silver
Montreuil (FRA)

Bronze
Dublin (IRL)
Santee (USA)
Antalya (TUR)
Adelaide (AUS)
Olomouc (CZE)
Banska Bystrica (SVK)
Borsky Mikulas (SVK)

The calendar is at https://www.worldathletics.org/compe...endar-results?

You'll see that the first 4 legs of the Tour are 3 national championships and the Oceania Championships but they're all Open meetings that allow international guests as well. That happens quite a bit in race walking due to the relatively limited international opportunities. For example, last year the Turkish Championships attracted some very good Ukrainians, Belarussians & Kazakhs. The Oceania RW Championships has had a number of South/Central Americans, Europeans and Canadians competing because they winter at the sports nutrition centre in Australia. Of course, COVID may mean that this is less the case for these coming meetings.

I'm expecting at least 3 more events to be added to the Tour in due course. The old World Race Walking Challenge circuit had a Mexican meeting or two and due to the strength of race walking in Central & South America that region really needs a stop on the Tour. The Alytus meeting in Lithuania is also a quality meeting and I'd expect that to maybe get a Silver label. A couple of weeks ago the All Japan Walk meeting in Nomi was also on the Tour but has since disappeared off the list.
As one of the homes of race walking Italy should really have a stop on the Tour - a few years ago they used to have a meeting on the World Challenge circuit but that meeting was discontinued.
I'm also hoping that the Lugano (SUI) meeting is brought back into the fold after a few years off the World Challenge circuit.

I don't anticipate that all the meetings will have wonderful live streaming but 2022 is set to be a bumper year for live Race Walking on our TV/computer screens, what with us also having the World Team RW Champs, the World Champs, Commonwealth Games, European Champs, World University Games, World U20s, South American Games and a few other very good meetings such as the Spanish & Japanese Champs, the South American RW Championships and the Ivano-Frankivsk meeting.

[LuckySpikes]

Here is her last 1000m. Her form is so smooth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBeBKW2acI

Yes, and her forward arm action is quite un-Japanese! Most of their female distance athletes swing their arms across their body in a pronounced manner. And then there's Yuka Ando ...

[TN1965]

From the amateur video on YouTube her splits were 15:30/15:15 (2:59 for the last 1000 and 70 last lap).

Here is her last 1000m. Her form is so smooth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBeBKW2acI

[Atticus]

Back on Reunion Island, Kevin Mayer contested the 110H and JT with promising results: 13.70 (0.8) and 69.33.

https://www.athle.fr/asp.net/main.news/news.aspx?newsid=17971

[LuckySpikes]

30:45 in her 10k debut.

From the amateur video on YouTube her splits were 15:30/15:15 (2:59 for the last 1000 and 70 last lap).

[LuckySpikes]

30:45 in her 10k debut.

Yes, what a terrific talent she is! She still has another year in the U20s to maybe have a crack at Linet Masai's U20 WR of 30:26.50.

[TN1965]

Seira Fuwa is entered in the 10,000 at the Kansai Time Trials this Saturday ...

30:45 in her 10k debut.

[Atticus]

It just keeps coming
[fm CB]

Kyoto (Japan), 10.12.2021
Men
5.000m
1 Samuel Chebole 13.11.72;
2 Hyuga Endo 13:16.40;
3 Kazuya Shiojiri 13:16.53;
4 Takuma Sunaoka 13:19.96;

Women
5.000m
1 Tabitha Kamau Njeri (ken) 15:00.68;
2 Tomoka Kimura 15:02.48;
3 Nozomi Tanaka 15:04.10;

10.000
1 Rino Goshima 31:10.02;
2 Harumi Okamoto 31:41.00;

[LuckySpikes]

Fuwa ran 31:29 10k in another Ekiden over the past weekend. She will likely to make a 10k debut on track early next year.

https://japanrunningnews.blogspot.co...an-womens.html

Seira Fuwa is entered in the 10,000 at the Kansai Time Trials this Saturday ...

[Atticus]

They're right back at it.

[frm CBaronet]

Yokohama (Japan), 4-5.12.2021

Men
10.000m (4) h10
1 Antipas Kibet (ken) 27:22.93;
2 Jonathan Ndiku (ken) 27:23.06;
3 Ren Tazawa (foto) 27:23.44;
4 Vincent Yegon (ken) 27:24.42;
5 Bernard Koech (ken) 27:46.87;

Women
5.000m (4) h8
1 Naomi Kariuki Mussoni (ken) 14:49.94;
2 Agnes Mukari (ken) (2002) 14:53.73;
3 Tabitha Kamau (ken) 14:54.25;
4 Nozomi Tanaka 15:04.83;
5 Desta Burka (eth) 15:16.14;

[Steele]

Kind of in their own little world. Even the Aussies, etc., put their eggs in the summer Euro meets, with another peak in their own summer (northern hemi winter). I guess you go where your bread is buttered, so can't blame them.

[TN1965]

That's a lot of fast Japanese 10k guys as well. In late November? It's not like Japan is in the Southern Hemisphere.

Most male distance runners in Japan peak in late December / early January, because that's when the most important races take place.

That's one reason they usually underperform in track championships. Summer is off-season for them.

Mid December. National JHS Ekiden.
Late December. National HS Ekiden.
1/1 National Corporate Ekiden.
1/2-3 Tokyo-Hakone Ekiden (for college runners.)

[Steele]

That's a lot of fast Japanese 10k guys as well. In late November? It's not like Japan is in the Southern Hemisphere.

[Atticus]

The Kenyans-running-in-Japan phenomenon continues to fascinate me. [from C Baronet]

Tokyo (Japan), 27Nov2021
Hachioji Long Distance
Men
10.000m heat 6
1 Evans Keitany (ken) 27:28.25; 2 James Muoki (ken) 27:28.49; 3 Samuel Masai (ken) 27:28.77; 4 Tatsuhiko Ito 27:30.69; 5 Tomoki Ota 27:33.13; 6 Sitonik Kiprono (ken) 27:33.78; 7 Philip Murwa (ken) 27:35.29; 8 Cleophas Kandie (ken) 27:36.06; 9 Patrick Wambui (ken) 27:36.87; 10 Amos Kurgat (ken) 27:37.82; 11 Tetsuya Yoroizaka 27:41.78; 12 Hiroki Matsueda 27:42.73; 13 Kota Murayama 27:45.09; 14 Philemon Kiplagat (ken) 27:46.91; 15 Kisaisa Ledama (eth) 27:47.17; 16 Yusuke Tamura 27:48.42; 17 Benuel Mogeni (ken) 27:48.77; 18 Musoni Muiru (ken) 27:51.43; 19 Dominic Langat (ken) 27:57.03; 20 Akira Aizawa 27:58.35; 21 Yuya Yoshida 27:59.14; 22 Takashi Ichida 28:05.89; 23 Yuhei Urano 28:12.91; 24 Naoki Koyama 28:12.96; 25 Taku Fujimoto 28:14.86; 26 Noah Kiplimo (ken) 28.21.07; 27 Yeneburo Biyazen (eth) 28:28.25; 28 James Bunuka (ken) 28:35.41; 29 Daiji Kawai 28:56.40; 30 Patrick Mathenge Wambui (ken) 28:56.45
10.000m heat 7
1 Hiroto Inoue 27:43.17; 2 Keijiro Mogi 27:44.17; 3 Tomoya Ogikubo 27:44.74; 4 Kanta Shimizu 27:45.04; 5 Kazuya Shiojiri 27:45.18; 6 Naoki Aiba 27:48.26; 7 Kazuya Nishiyama 27:48.26; 8 Hironori Tsuetaki 27:49.80; 9 Kiyoshi Koga 27:51.64; 10 Hideyuki Tanaka 27:52.60; 11 Tatsuya Oike 27:53.45; 12 Yuki Muta 27:56.25; 13 Takato Suzuki 27:57.15; 14 Masashi Nonaka 27:58.38; 15 Yohei Ikeda 28:00.65; 16 Shingo Moriyama 28:01.06; 17 Syunya Kikuchi 28:02.17; 18 Takahiro Nakamura 28:03.73; 19 Shoya Kawase 28:03.89; 20 Wataru Togichi 28:14.05; 21 Daisuke Hosomori 28:16.04; 22 Kosei Yamaguchi 28:18.76; 23 Keita Yoshida 28:24.52; 24 Takuya Hujikawa 28:25.17; 25 Kensuke Horio 28:25.74; 26 Kiseki Shiozawa 28:27.20; 27 Benard Kimani (ken) 28:28.24; 28 Taisei Nakamura 28:28.82; 29 Naoki Okamoto 28:50.27; 30 Mitsunori Asaoka 28:55.30; 31 Mizuki Higashi 28:56.83
10.000m heat 5
1 Yamato Otsuka 28:10.57; 2 Gaku Hoshi 28:14.12; 3 Akito Terui 28:17.89; 4 Ren Yonemitsu 28:19.46; 5 Toshiya Sato 28:19.52; 6 Daisuke Doi 28:19.78; 7 Kazuto Kawabata 28:21.16; 8 Yuma Hattori 28:22.86; 9 Chihiro Ono 28:23.68; 10 Ryuya Kajitani 28:24.94; 11 Kento Kikutani 28:25.98; 12 Ryota Matono 28:33.17; 13 Ryoto Yoshioka 28:37.87; 14 Kazuki Muramoto 28:38.49; 15 Fuma Kato 28:43.41; 16 Masaki Sakuda 28:47.52; 17 Akihiro Kaneko 28:48.19
10.000m heat 4
1 Shota Maeda 28:05.62; 2 Takashi Namba 28:06.95; 2 Rintaro Takeda 28:07.41; 4 Yuta Shimoda 28:08.07; 5 Kosuke Yamada 28:08.48; 6 Ken Nakamaya 28:09.92; 7 Keisuke Hayashi 28:23.02; 8 Yusuke Ogura 28:23.57; 9 Shuto Mikami 28:25.44; 10 Shun Sakuraoka 28:29.36; 11 Daiki Hattori 28:38.46; 12 Taishi Yamada 28:39.24; 13 Kei Katanishi 28:41.11; 14 Ryo Kuchimachi 28:41.75; 15 Kenta Mutou 28:42.20; 16 Ryohei Nishiyama 28:43.16; 17 Daichi Takeuchi 28:45.43; 18 Yuya Ueda 28:46.24; 19 Hazuma Hattori 28:54.37; 20 Ryota Ejima 28:54.85; 21 Masami Nagakura 28:57.04
10.000m heat 3
1 Tetsu Yokoyama 28:26.34; 2 Yuki Seto 28:37.93; 3 Daisuke Higuchi 28:38.42; 4 Yosei Hoshida 28:38.58; 5 Kouhei Mukai 28:39.64; 6 Yusuke Oosumi 28:42.89; 7 Shinta Miyazawa 28:43.60; 8 Hiroyuki Ishikawa 28:43.60; 9 Noriaki Oyama 28:47.55; 10 Hayato Mera 28:48.91; 11 Jun Nobuto 28:52.00; 12 Shuichi Kondo 28:52.55; 13 Tsukasa Koyama 28:53.51; 14 Ryo Saito 28:55.20; 15 Tomoki Kawamura 28:56.06; 16 Naoki Tomita 28:57.37
10.000m heat 2
1 Tomoya Kitamura 28:40.69; 2 Takaki Iwamuro 28:44.52; 3 Willy Kipselem (ken) 28:46.49; 4 Shotaro Hosokawa 28:51.35; 5 Tomoya Yoneda 28:52

[Atticus]

Fukuoka Marathon is over after this year.

Fukuoka was THE marathon when I first became a T&F devotee. These results are burned into my neurons.

1967.12.03	Derek Clayton	2:09:37 WR
1968.12.08	Bill Adcocks	2:10:48
1969.12.07	Jerome Drayton	2:11:13
1970.12.06	Akio Usami	2:10:38
1971.12.05	Frank Shorter	2:12:51
1972.12.03	Frank Shorter	2:10:30
1973.12.02	Frank Shorter	2:11:45
1974.12.08	Frank Shorter	2:11:32
1975.12.07	Jerome Drayton	2:10:09
1976.12.05	Jerome Drayton	2:12:35
1977.12.04	Bill Rodgers	2:10:56
1978.12.03	Toshihiko Seko	2:10:21
1979.12.02	Toshihiko Seko	2:10:35
1980.12.07	Toshihiko Seko	2:09:45
1981.12.06	Robert de Castella	2:08:18 WR
1982.12.05	Paul Ballinger	2:10:15
1983.12.04	Toshihiko Seko	2:08:52