Kumanichi Road Race

The Kumanichi Road Race (Japanese: 熊本30K) is an annual road running competition over 30 kilometres which is typically held in February in Kumamoto, Japan. It was first held in 1957 as a men-only competition. A women's race was introduced in 2006. The race is one of the world's most prominent over the uncommon 30K distance. A total of eight Association of Road Racing Statisticians-recognised men's world records have been set at the competition, including the current world record.

Kumanichi Road Race
Date	February
Location	Kumamoto, Japan
Event type	Road
Distance	30 kilometres
Established	1957
Official site	Kumamoto 30K

The course records are held by Takayuki Matsumiya (1:28:00) and Yuka Hakoyama (1:43:26). It is mostly contested by Japanese athletes, with Kenya's Willy Kangogo becoming the event's sole non-national winner in 2007.

Past winners

Key:   Course record

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's winner	Time (h:m:s)
1st	1957	Kaneyuki (JPN)	1:40:20	Not held
2nd	1958	Kenji Fujimoto (JPN)	1:42:25
3rd	1959	Toru Takaguchi (JPN)	1:38:40
4th	1960	Yoshinori Yamamoto (JPN)	1:44:02
5th	1961	Morio Shigematsu (JPN)	1:36:29
6th	1962	Rikio Maeda (JPN)	1:40:09
7th	1963	Teruhisa Momii (JPN)	1:35:05.4
8th	1964	Kazumi Watanabe (JPN)	1:33:52.8
9th	1965	Toru Terasawa (JPN)	1:31:51.6
10th	1966	Yutaka Aoki (JPN)	1:36:08.0
11th	1967	Hirokazu Okabe (JPN)	1:32:51.6
12th	1968	Morio Shigematsu (JPN)	1:32:49.2
13th	1969	Kenji Kimihara (JPN)	1:33:02.6
14th	1970	Misao Yoneshige (JPN)	1:34:36
15th	1971	Akio Usami (JPN)	1:31:26.8
16th	1972	Misao Yoneshige (JPN)	1:33:55
17th	1973	Kenichi Otsuki (JPN)	1:33:18
18th	1974	Makoto Hattori (JPN)	1:32:48.8
19th	1975	Kunimitsu Itō (JPN)	1:31:22.0
20th	1976	Toshiaki Kamata (JPN)	1:30:20.8
21st	1977	Kunimitsu Itō (JPN)	1:31:11.2
22nd	1978	Hiroshi Yuge (JPN)	1:31:45.9
23rd	1979	Hiroshi Yuge (JPN)	1:32:45.8
24th	1980	Kunimitsu Itō (JPN)	1:29:12
25th	1981	Kazuyoshi Kudo (JPN)	1:31:00
26th	1982	Tetsuo Urakawa (JPN)	1:31:52
27th	1983	Mitsuaki Mimura (JPN)	1:32:51
28th	1984	Toshihiro Shibutani (JPN)	1:33:09
29th	1985	Kazuya Nishimoto (JPN)	1:28:46
30th	1986	Chiaki Harumatsu (JPN)	1:31:20
31st	1987	Shuichi Yoneshige (JPN)	1:29:51
32nd	1988	Shuichi Morita (JPN)	1:31:45
33rd	1989	Kazuyoshi Kudo (JPN)	1:29:46
34th	1990	Kōichi Morishita (JPN)	1:30:47
35th	1991	Katsumi Ikeda (JPN)	1:30:17
36th	1992	Yosuke Osawa (JPN)	1:30:25
37th	1993	Shinichi Akiyoshi (JPN)	1:30:37
38th	1994	Takayuki Inubushi (JPN)	1:30:29
39th	1995	Sakae Osaki (JPN)	1:30:01
40th	1996	Kenichi Takahashi (JPN)	1:29:46
41st	1997	Tadayuki Ojima (JPN)	1:30:26
42nd	1998	Yasuyuki Watanabe (JPN)	1:29:47
43rd	1999	Kenji Noguchi (JPN)	1:29:46
44th	2000	Kenichi Takahashi (JPN)	1:29:55
45th	2001	Toshinari Takaoka (JPN)	1:29:23
46th	2002	Ryoji Matsushita (JPN)	1:30:04
47th	2003	Takayuki Matsumiya (JPN)	1:28:36
48th	2004	Tomohiro Seto (JPN)	1:29:50
49th	2005	Takayuki Matsumiya (JPN)	1:28:00
50th	2006	Tomoya Shimizu (JPN)	1:31:09	Miho Notagashira (JPN)	1:44:13
51st	2007	Willy Kangogo (KEN)	1:29:59	Mika Okunaga (JPN)	1:45:46
52nd	2008	Masaki Shimoju (JPN)	1:30:33	Miho Notagashira (JPN)	1:44:00
53rd	2009	Yu Mitsuya (JPN)	1:29:55	Chiharu Matsuo (JPN)	1:48:22
54th	2010	Atsushi Fujita (JPN)	1:29:46	Chiharu Matsuo (JPN)	1:50:18
55th	2011	Tomoyuki Morita (JPN)	1:32:14	Not held
56th	2012	Tsuyoshi Ugachi (JPN)	1:30:01	Yuka Hakoyama (JPN)	1:43:26
57th	2013	Yuki Kawauchi (JPN)	1:29:31	Yuko Mizuguchi (JPN)	1:43:46
58th	2014	Yuma Hattori (JPN)	1:28:52	Yuka Takashima (JPN)	1:44:19
59th	2015	Shin Kimura (JPN)	1:31:27	Saori Noda (JPN)	1:45:00
60th	2016	Keita Shitara (JPN)	1:30:45	Sakiko Matsumi (JPN)	1:45:59
61st	2017	Yuichiro Ueno (JPN)	1:30:17	Sakie Arai (JPN)	1:46:29
62nd	2018	Keisuke Hayashi (JPN)	1:29:47	Yuko Watanabe (JPN)	1:47:17
63rd	2019	Kei Katanishi (JPN)	1:29:34	Nanayo Okamoto (JPN)	1:45:48

References

List of winners

• Kumanichi 30 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-04-28.