Athletics: Aoyama Gakuin takes 1st-day Tokyo-Hakone ekiden lead

Aoyama Gakuin University took the lead in the third of Sunday's five stages and never looked back, crossing the line first to win the outward half of the 98th Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.Freshman Aoi Ota moved Aoyama Gakuin up to first place some 18 kilometers into stage three and anchor Hiroki Wakabayashi finished in 5 hours, 22 minutes, 6 seconds, giving his team a 2-minute, 37-second lead to take into the return leg of the prestigious event to be run on Monday.Teikyo University finished second and Komazawa University third, 3 minutes, 28 seconds behind Aoyama Gakuin. Kokuga…READ FULL ARTICLE