Nike Celebrates Japan's Annual Relay Race Marathons With the Air Zoom AlphaFly NEXT% "Ekiden": Commemorative performance shoes for the country's most-watched annual sporting event.

The 2021 Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden Race concluded as a last-mile thriller between the eventual winner Komazawa University and runner-up Soka University. But the latest edition of the ...

When people mention running relays, it’s likely that your first thoughts are of athletes sprinting round a running track for either 100m or 400m. But there does exist another type of relay. It can ...

OXFORD, U.K. -- The FT Nikkei U.K. Ekiden was held in Oxford on Monday with a total of 180 runners participating, marking the traditional Japanese long-distance relay race's debut in the U.K. Eighteen ...

It is Sunday morning, Dec. 25, and all across Japan TV sets are tuned in to the spectacle of high school distance running championships held in the streets of Kyoto. Thousands of spectators line the ...

Komazawa University showcased a historic comeback win as junior runner Takuma Ishikawa overtook then-leader Soka University with only two kilometers left in the 10th and final leg to capture its first ...

For almost seven hours, 10 of Oxford University’s best runners, including the 2016 US Olympic marathoner Jared Ward, led a 114.8km path from Windsor to Reading and back. Then, moments after ...

A runner from Birmingham University passes the relay sash at the halfway point at King's Meadow in Reading Japan's Ritsumeikan University has won the second annual UK Ekiden race after front runners ...

When people mention running relays, it’s likely that your first thoughts are of athletes sprinting round a running track for either 100m or 400m. But there does exist another type of relay. It can ...