Aoyama Gakuin University won the 98th Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden in a record 10 hours, 43 minutes, 42 seconds on Monday, capturing the iconic two-day race for the first time in two years and the sixth time in school history.Aoyama Gakuin started the second day's return leg with a 2-minute, 37-second lead and ran with it. The team set two stage records en route to a record time in the five-stage 109.6-kilometer return leg from the mountain resort town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, to Tokyo's Otemachi business district.The previous record was set by Aoyama Gakuin in the school's last vi…READ FULL ARTICLE
