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

Defending champion Aoyama Gakuin University had a 1-minute and 47-second lead over second-place Chuo University after Day 1 of the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay Thursday.Five Aoyama Gakuin runners covered the 107.5-kilometer course from Tokyo's Otemachi business district to the mountainous spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture in 5 hours, 20 minutes, 1 second.In the 101st edition of the race, Chuo led from the first to fourth leg before Aoyama Gakuin's Hiroki Wakabayashi overtook Chuo's Daito Sonoki midway through the fifth leg on his way to setting a new fifth-leg…READ FULL ARTICLE