a hat-trick of ekiden titles

サッカーだけだと思っていましたが、駅伝の「三冠ねらい」という意味でも使われていましたのでチェックしました。

専大もがんばりましたが、日テレのカバレッジも少なく、最後のゴールの放送もカットされて…。来年の伊藤国光監督の采配に期待します。（Ume）

Athletics: Toyo holds on to win Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Toyo University held on to its overnight lead to win the Tokyo-Hakone men's collegiate ekiden road relay for the first time in two years on Friday.

Starting with a 59-second lead over Komzawa University after the first leg on Thursday, Toyo completed the 217.9-kilometer round trip between Tokyo's Otemachi business district and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture in 10 hours, 52 minutes, 51 seconds for its fourth overall title.

Toyo never surrendered its lead and took the seventh, eighth and 10th legs en route to victory in a new record return-leg time of 5:25:38.
Komazawa, which was aiming to complete a hat-trick of ekiden titles after winning the national university championship and national invitational crown, was second, over 4 minutes back.

Last year's champion, Nippon Sport Science University, was third.

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