page_title: Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden
section_title: Editions
hierarchical_section_title: Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden / Editions
caption_attribution_description: Tomo Morimoto - Vienna City Marathon 2008 Deutsch: Die Japanerin Tomo Morimoto, rund 4 Minuten vor dem Start zum Vienna City Marathon. Sie errang mit 02:29:01 den zweiten Platz (Frauen) hinter Luminiţa Talpos (ROM), d.h. 18. Platz insgesamt. English: Japanese Tomo Morimoto some 4 minutes before starting Vienna City Marathon. She won second women, or 18th over all, in 02:29:01 after Luminiţa Talpos (ROM). Notes: My camera's time setting was about 1h4min late to local time, which means, this photograph was taken at app. 08:56 local time, i.e. 4 min before starting. Similar applies to all other photographs of same series [w.]. On ranking, see official http://www.vienna-marathon.com/
context_page_description: The Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden is an annual women's ekiden for Japanese runners held in January in Kyoto Prefecture. The course has a looped point-to-point format over the marathon distance of 42.195 km and begins and ends within the Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium.
  The competition was initiated in 1983 as a way of developing and improving the standard of women's long-distance running in Japan. All 47 Prefectures of Japan are allowed to enter a team into the event. The relay is divided into nine stages of distances varying from 3 km to 10 km. Rather than being open to all, the stages are separated into age groups; competitors range from junior high school runners to fully-fledged professional athletes. This aspect is an essential part of the ethos of the competition: that younger athletes may interact and learn from more experienced runners. Non-Japanese nationals are not permitted to enter the competition and participants must represent the prefecture in which they are being schooled or, in the case of professionals, the prefecture in which they are mostly based.
context_section_description: Key: Course record
caption: Tomo Morimoto took the Okayama team to third place in 2008.[8]
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