Aoyama Gakuin grabs lead on last leg of 1st day

Hiroki Wakabayashi put Aoyama Gakuin University into the lead for the first time Thursday on the final stage of first day of the two-day 101st Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden, giving the defending champion a 1-minute 47-second lead over surprising Chuo University for Friday’s return trip to Tokyo.
Aoyama Gakuin, whose runners posted the top times in two of the five stages, clocked 5 hours 20 minutes 1 second over the 107.5-kilometer route from The Yomiuri Shimbun building in central Tokyo to Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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