On July 23 the Fujitsu corporate team announced that men's 20 km race walk world record holder and 2019 50 km world champion Yusuke Suzuki, 36, and three-time men's 400 m national champion Julian Walsh, 27, are retiring a…
Yasushi Sakaguchi, who guided the Chugoku Denryoku men's corporate team to the peak of its power as its head coach and later executive head coach, retired from the team at the end of June. Appearing at his final race on June …
On Feb. 21 the Toyota Kyushu corporate team announced that its longtime member Masato Imai, 39, known throughout Japan as the original God of the Mountain for his spectacular runs on the Hakone Ekiden's uphill Fifth Stage in…