Athletics: Aoyama Gakuin University wins Hakone ekiden in record time

Aoyama Gakuin University won the 100th Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay Wednesday in a record total time of 10 hours, 41 minutes, 25 seconds.Aoyama Gakuin beat the previous record it set in 2022 by more than 2 minutes while claiming its seventh Hakone ekiden victory, all coming in the last 10 years.Pre-race favorite Komazawa University finished a distant second in 10:48:00 in a bid to become the first team to sweep collegiate ekiden's three major races in consecutive seasons.Komazawa won the Izumo Ekiden in October and the national championship in November.Aoyama Gakuin started the…READ FULL ARTICLE