Overview
- Aoyama Gakuin clocked 10:37:34 to take a ninth overall title and set a new event record for the two‑day university relay.
- After starting 16th on the opening leg, Aoyama seized control with Asahi Kuroda’s decisive fifth‑leg run and never relinquished the lead on the return.
- Shota Shiode set an eighth‑leg section record and Yuuichi Sato won the ninth leg for Aoyama, widening a lead that carried comfortably to the finish.
- Kokugakuin finished runner‑up in 10:40:07, faster than the previous event record, and Juntendo climbed to third from sixth after last year’s narrow miss of seed status.
- Teikyo surged from 17th to ninth to secure a seed, Soka held eighth to extend its seed run, and Toyo placed 14th to bring a 20‑year seed streak to a close.