Sunday, June 27th , 2004
The 19th @LAKE SAROMA 100km was carried out on Sunday, 27th June in the three Towns, Yubetsu, Tokoro and Saroma located in the far north of Hokkaido island, Japan.
The event of this year had the largest number of entries, 2,800 runners for 100k and 50k.
Tsutomu Sassa, age 29, who has 2h.11minutes marathon time won at 6 hour 23min. 00 sec. despite his first Beyond the Marathon race.
Four runners ran under 7 hours under the sunny hot weather with almost no wind.
( Souhei Kobayashi)
{b}RESULTS{eb}
100k Men
1. Tsutomu Sassa 6:23:00
2. Hideo Nojo 6:36:41
3. Yoshiaki Kobayashi 6:52:44
4. Yasunori Yamamoto 6:57:55
5. Jun-ichi Nomura 7:15:05
6. Joji Nishimura 7:21:10
7. Jun-chi Otaki 7:26:34
8. Manabu Mizobuchi 7: 27:05
9. Takashi Kuroki 7:30:05
10. Toru Shima 7:31:50
100k Women
1. Makiko Hotta 7:38:31
2. Akiko Sekiya 8:10:11
3. Kazuho Izutsu 8:14:44
4. Yoko Yamazawa 8:22:02
5. Hiroko Sho 8:22:41
6. Yuki Nose 8:35:05
7. Toyoko Maeda 8:43:49
8. Kazuko Kono 8:52:08
9. Eimi Iwasaki 8:57:38
10. Kazuko Kondo 8:58:41
50K Men
Hiroshi Matsumoto 3:35:14
Mitsuhiro Ono 3:39:52
Takatoshi Miyazaki 3:41:57
Kazuhiko Miyazaki 3:43:54
Keiichi Hara 3:53:44
50K Women
1. Noriko Aoyama 4:12:49
2. Yukiko Tobisawa 4:21:02
3. Yuko Kikui 4:27:22
4. Hiroko Kitamura 4:28:40
5. Kumi Ynagisawa 4:39:08
{b}Notes:{eb}
Number of runners for 100k:
Entry – 2,476
Finisher – 1,374
Number of runners for 50k
Entry – 326
Finisher – 220
Weather:
Cloudy to fair
Temperature:
lowest – 15f
Highest – 26f
Regards,
Souhei Kobayashi