Section entries for the 57th All Japan Intercollegiate Ekiden Championships have been announced

Nozawa Yuuma crossed the finish line in 4th place last year ©Getsuriku

The 57th All-Japan Intercollegiate Ekiden Championships will be held on Sunday, November 2, 2025. A total of 27 teams (including selected teams) will participate in this tournament, with athletes running 106.8 kilometers across eight sections. The event will be broadcast live on TV Asahi from 7:45 a.m.

Section entry

The section entries for the Soka University Ekiden Club, which will be participating for the fourth time, are as follows.

section full name Grade High school and prefecture
1 Haruka Kuroki 4 years

Kyushu Gakuin University, Kumamoto

2 Riki Koike 3 years Saku Nagano
3 Keigo Fujita 1 year Kansai Soka High School, Hokkaido
4 Takumi Orihashi 3 years Chukyo and Gifu
5 Yuuta Kinugawa 1 year Nishiwaki Technical High School, Hyogo
6 Rintaro Enoki 2 years Kobayashi and Miyazaki
7 Kazuki Shinohara 3 years

Yamanashi Gakuin, Shizuoka

8 Shoki Yamaguchi 2 years

Omuta and Yamaguchi

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