Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden
The Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden (全国都道府県対抗女子駅伝競走大会 (All-Japan Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden Championships)) is an annual women's
Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium
.
The competition was initiated in 1983 as a way of developing and improving the standard of women's
junior high school runners to fully-fledged professional athletes. This aspect is an essential part of the ethos of the competition: that younger athletes may interact and learn from more experienced runners.[2] Non-Japanese nationals are not permitted to enter the competition and participants must represent the prefecture in which they are being schooled or, in the case of professionals, the prefecture in which they are mostly based.[3]
The ekiden is organised by the
Japanese Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF), the national governing body for the sport. It has three major sponsors: the Kyoto Shimbun (the regional newspaper), Murata Machinery, and NHK (the national broadcaster). The event is transmitted every year on the NHK General TV channel as well as NHK Radio 1.[3]
The host prefecture, Kyoto, has historically been the most successful team at the competition by far, having won the ekiden on sixteen occasions..
The current course record of 2:14:55 hours was set by Kanagawa Prefecture in 2013.[7]
Stages
Stage | Distance | Age limit | Route | Stage record (m:s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1st | 6 km | Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium → Hirano Shrine
|
Miwako Yamanaka (18:44), 2003 | |
2nd | 4 km | Hirano Shrine → Karasuma Kyoto Hotel | Yuriko Kobayashi (12:07), 2009 | |
3rd | 3 km | Junior high | Karasuma → Marutamachi Kawaramachi | Yui Takahashi (9:11), 2004 |
4th | 4 km | Marutamachi Kawaramachi → Shirakawa Street | Seira Fuwa (12:29), 2022 | |
5th | 4.1075 km | Shirakawa Street → Kyoto International Conference Center | Taeko Igarashi (12:53), 1995 | |
6th | 4.0875 km | Kyoto International Conference Center → Shirakawa Street | Nanako Kanno (12:39), 2011 | |
7th | 4 km | Shirakawa Street → Marutamachi Teramachi | Kazue Kojima (12:21), 2007 | |
8th | 3 km | Junior high | Marutamachi Teramachi → Karasuma | Moe Kyuma (9:41), 2009 |
9th | 10 km | Karasuma → Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium | Kayoko Fukushi (30:02), 2004 |
Editions
Key: Course record
Edition | Year | Winner | Time (h:m:s) |
---|---|---|---|
1st | 1983 | Chiba | 2:29:02 |
2nd | 1984 | Kyoto | 2:27:14 |
3rd | 1985 | Chiba | 2:25:32 |
4th | 1986 | Kagoshima | 2:22:59 |
5th | 1987 | Kanagawa | 2:23:05 |
6th | 1988 | Kyoto | 2:20:25 |
7th | 1989 | Kyoto | 2:18:41 |
8th | 1990 | Kyoto | 2:17:17 |
9th | 1991 | Kyoto | 2:16:01 |
10th | 1992 | Kyoto | 2:17:55 |
11th | 1993 | Osaka | 2:19:15 |
12th | 1994 | Chiba | 2:18:04 |
13th | 1995 | Miyagi | 2:17:50 |
14th | 1996 | Kyoto | 2:17:19 |
15th | 1997 | Kumamoto | 2:15:19 |
16th | 1998 | Saitama | 2:16:54 |
17th | 1999 | Fukuoka | 2:18:16 |
18th | 2000 | Nagasaki | 2:17:19 |
19th | 2001 | Hyogo | 2:17:57 |
20th | 2002 | Kyoto | 2:15:55 |
21st | 2003 | Hyogo | 2:16:02 |
22nd | 2004 | Hyogo | 2:16:18 |
23rd | 2005 | Kyoto | 2:16:22 |
24th | 2006 | Kyoto | 2:15:26 |
25th | 2007 | Kyoto | 2:17:03 |
26th | 2008 | Kyoto | 2:14:58 |
27th | 2009 | Kyoto | 2:15:39 |
28th | 2010 | Okayama | 2:16:24 |
29th | 2011 | Kyoto | 2:17:16 |
30th | 2012 | Osaka | 2:16:47 |
31st | 2013 | Kanagawa | 2:14:55 |
32nd | 2014 | Kyoto | 2:15:32 |
33rd | 2015 | Osaka | 2:17:26 |
34th | 2016 | Aichi | 2:16:02 |
35th | 2017 | Kyoto | 2:17:45 |
References
- ^ About (in Japanese). Women's Ekiden (2011-10-14). Retrieved on 2012-01-22.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (2012-01-15). Osaka wins women’s Inter-Prefectural Ekiden in Kyoto. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-01-22.
- ^ a b FAQ (in Japanese). Women's Ekiden. Retrieved on 2012-01-22.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (2011-01-17). Kyoto takes women’s Inter-Prefectural Ekiden title in Kyoto. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-01-22.
- ^ Historical Annual Rankings (in Japanese). Women's Ekiden. Retrieved on 2012-01-22.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-01-22.
- ^ Nakamura, Ken (2013-01-13). Kanagawa wins Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden in Kyoto with course record. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-02-18.
- IAAF. retrieved on 2012-01-22.
- Statistics
- Top-10 Stage times (in Japanese). Women's Ekiden. Retrieved on 2012-01-22.
- Historical Annual Rankings (in Japanese). Women's Ekiden. Retrieved on 2012-01-22.
External links