Hakone Ekiden Results

Chuo University ran in the 94th Hakone Ekiden held from January 2nd to the 3rd, placing 10th en route to Hakone (107.5km), 18th return trip to Otemachi (109.6km), resulting in 15th place overall.
The Hakone Ekiden is a college long-distance round-trip road relay race between Tokyo to Hakone.

We deeply appreciate the warm support from everyone who cheered for the track team, and strive to meet higher expectations next year.
 
Results:
 
Otemachi – Hakone Route
Block 1 Shoma Funatsu (2nd year Faculty of Economics) 1hr. 2min. 58sec. (12th place)
Block 2 Kensuke Horio (3rd year Faculty of Economics) 1hr. 9min. 4sec. (8th place)
Block 3 Ken Nakayama (3rd year Faculty of Law) 1hr. 3min. 42sec. (6th place)
Block 4 Takahiro Namura (3rd year Faculty of Letters) 1hr. 4min. 4sec. (13th place)
Block 5 Takumu Une (1st year Faculty of Law) 1hr. 14min. 30sec. (10th place)

Hakone – Otemachi Route
Block 6 Taku Tomihara (2nd year Faculty of Economics) 1hr. 1min. 21sec. (18th place)
Block 7 Naoto Yasunaga (2nd year Faculty of Economics) 1hr. 7min. 11min. (15th place)
Block 8 Hiroshi Kouzaki (3rd year Faculty of Letters) 1hr. 8min. 25sec. (12th place)
Block 9 Kanta Ikeda (1st year Faculty of Commerce) 1hr. 14min. 7sec. (18th place)
Block 10 Daichi Takeuchi (4th year Faculty of Law) 1hr. 14min. 4sec. (18th place)

 
 
Results by route:
Otemachi – Hakone: 5hr. 34min. 18sec. (10th place)
Hakone – Otemachi: 5hr. 45min. 8sec. (18th place)
Roundtrip: 11hr. 19min. 26sec. (15th place)