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61st Hokusho Road Race Tournament 2025 Results
- Date and time:Sunday, August 17, 2025
- Venue:Hokuryu Town, Uryu District, Hokkaido
- Organizer:Hokuryu Town Sports Association (Chairman: Hikaru Tanimoto)
- For inquiries, please contact:(Hokuryu Town Hall) Hokusho Road Race Tournament Office: Tel 0164-34-7034
10km
10km general men
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 5 | Naoya Kimura | Kimura Naoya | 0:31:47 |
| 2 | 4 | Kanata Mizote | At the end of the road | 0:32:08 |
| 3 | 44 | Yuta Mihara | Yuta Mihara | 0:32:11 |
| 4 | 88 | Tomoki Landlord | Tomoki Ooya | 0:33:07 |
| 5 | 68 | Shinpei Ando | Ando Shinpei | 0:33:50 |
| 6 | 96 | Yuta Shimizu | Shimizu Yuta | 0:34:31 |
| 7 | 86 | Chikara Fujii | Fujii Tsuyoshi | 0:35:03 |
| 8 | 49 | Hisao Kobayashi | Naotaka Kobayashi | 0:35:50 |
| 9 | 91 | Ryusei Kobayashi | Ryusei Kobayashi | 0:36:02 |
| 10 | 45 | Yuki Sato | Yuki Sato | 0:36:44 |
| 11 | 16 | Ryuta Aoshima | Ryuta Aoshima | 0:36:53 |
| 12 | 7 | Kazumasa Yasuda | Yasuda Kazumasa | 0:38:46 |
| 13 | 57 | Shinnosuke Koike | Koike Shinnosuke | 0:38:53 |
| 14 | 22 | Masahiro Yamada | Masahiro Yamada | 0:40:46 |
| 15 | 51 | Hirotomo Takahashi | Yasunori Takahashi | 0:40:56 |
| 16 | 55 | Akihiro Kishigami | Akihiro Kishigami | 0:41:09 |
| 17 | 24 | Shigeo Fujita | Shigeo Fujita | 0:41:13 |
| 18 | 81 | Keiichiro Yamazaki | Yamazaki Keiichirou | 0:42:04 |
| 19 | 41 | Masaaki Sasaki | Masaaki Sasaki | 0:42:07 |
| 20 | 84 | Takayuki Tonosaki | Tonosaki Takayuki | 0:42:09 |
| 21 | 47 | Naoya Nishinaga | Nishinaga Naoya | 0:42:42 |
| 22 | 31 | Katsutoshi Yamamoto | Yamamoto Katsutoshi | 0:43:23 |
| 23 | 54 | Shinpei Yoshikawa | Yoshikawa Shinpei | 0:43:29 |
| 24 | 9 | Hiroki Watanabe | Hiroki Watanabe | 0:44:35 |
| 25 | 26 | Keiji Ishiguro | Ishikuro Keiji | 0:44:43 |
| 26 | 73 | Motoharu Sato | Sato Motoharu | 0:45:28 |
| 27 | 77 | Yuichi Nakayama | Nakayama Yuichi | 0:45:51 |
| 28 | 30 | Junichi Kojima | Junichi Kojima | 0:46:02 |
| 29 | 69 | Kenta Fukasawa | Kenta Fukazawa | 0:46:17 |
| 30 | 2 | Daisuke Kikuchi | Daisuke Kikuchi | 0:47:09 |
| 31 | 59 | Shotaro Otsuka | Otsuka Shotaro | 0:47:19 |
| 32 | 36 | Takahiro Tarui | Talui Takahiro | 0:47:31 |
| 33 | 28 | Takeshi Fuyukawa | Fuyukawa Takeru | 0:47:51 |
| 34 | 48 | Nobuo Kataoka | Kataoka Nobuo | 0:49:11 |
| 35 | 11 | Hideaki Yamada | Hideaki Yamada | 0:49:26 |
| 36 | 58 | Takaaki Iwabuchi | Iwabuchi Kousuke | 0:49:47 |
| 37 | 20 | Shigehito Fukushima | Fukushima Shigehito | 0:50:19 |
| 38 | 71 | Yukihiro Nagaya | Yukihiro Nagaya | 0:50:20 |
| 39 | 98 | Shigekazu Yatome | Yatome Shigekazu | 0:51:02 |
| 40 | 97 | Junichi Naito | Night June 1 | 0:51:16 |
| 41 | 21 | Koji Honda | Koji Honda | 0:51:20 |
| 42 | 66 | Katsuyoshi Shiraishi | Shiraishi Katsuyoshi | 0:51:20 |
| 43 | 8 | Hiroyuki Murakami | Hiroyuki Murakami | 0:51:39 |
| 44 | 67 | Jun Nakajima | Meguru Nakajima | 0:52:10 |
| 45 | 64 | Meiji Aihara | Aihara Akiharu | 0:52:33 |
| 46 | 42 | Yuya Samejima | Samejima Yuya | 0:52:51 |
| 47 | 65 | Yukiya Kishida | Yukiya Kishida | 0:52:55 |
| 48 | 3 | Shinya Totsuka | Shinya Totsuka | 0:53:20 |
| 49 | 29 | Kazuyuki Yamatani | Yamaya Kazuyuki | 0:53:28 |
| 50 | 40 | Keiki Ochi | Punch Cake | 0:53:46 |
| 51 | 100 | Tomotsugu Saito | Site Tomotsugu | 0:54:09 |
| 52 | 46 | Akio Watanabe | Akio Watanabe | 0:54:11 |
| 53 | 15 | Takayuki Hasegawa | Takayuki Hasegawa | 0:54:17 |
| 54 | 35 | Yoshifumi Iida | Iida Etsushi | 0:54:20 |
| 55 | 78 | Yukinari Oyama | Oyama Yukinari | 0:54:42 |
| 56 | 61 | Takashi Iman | Takashi Itani | 0:54:45 |
| 57 | 38 | Tatsuo Takahashi | Tatsuo Takahashi | 0:55:03 |
| 58 | 74 | Akira Kawai | Kawaii Seiji | 0:55:13 |
| 59 | 33 | Gen Sekiya | Hajime Sekiya | 0:55:25 |
| 60 | 85 | Kazuyoshi Bito | Kazuyoshi Bitou | 0:55:26 |
| 61 | 75 | Atsutaka Yasukawa | Yasukawa Atsutaka | 0:55:32 |
| 62 | 23 | Masahiko Kojima | Masahiko Kojima | 0:56:52 |
| 63 | 87 | Aritoshi Izumisawa | Naotoshi Izumisawa | 0:57:06 |
| 64 | 83 | Naoto Inoue | Naoto Inoue | 0:57:14 |
| 65 | 18 | Minoru Shirakawabe | Shirakawabe Minoru | 0:57:37 |
| 66 | 32 | Tokuhisa Wada | Norihisa Wada | 0:58:02 |
| 67 | 89 | Hideki Takeshima | Hideki Takeshima | 0:58:31 |
| 68 | 34 | Yasushi Otani | Yasushi Ohtani | 0:58:54 |
| 69 | 95 | Shinde Shinya | Arade Shinya | 0:59:18 |
| 70 | 92 | Mikito Yamamoto | Yamamoto Mikito | 0:59:55 |
| 71 | 53 | Tetsuaki Kamishita | Kamishita Tetsuaki | 1:00:32 |
| 72 | 43 | Kazuhiro Nihei | Nihei Kazuhiro | 1:00:45 |
| 73 | 90 | Osamu Sakuma | Osamu Sakuma | 1:00:57 |
| 74 | 76 | Seiji Yamada | Seiji Yamada | 1:01:03 |
| 75 | 99 | Tatsuya Asano | Tatsuya Asano | 1:01:33 |
| 76 | 39 | Kiyoharu Miyazaki | Miyazaki Kiyoharu | 1:02:11 |
| 77 | 80 | Kazuhiko Kato | Kazuhiko Kato | 1:02:11 |
| 78 | 12 | Hideyo Fujisawa | Hideyo Fujisawa | 1:02:12 |
| 79 | 60 | Takashi Kuroki | Takashi Kuroki | 1:02:36 |
| 80 | 79 | Osamu Sato | Osamu Sato | 1:03:12 |
| 81 | 82 | Taichi Miura | Taichi Miura | 1:03:46 |
| 82 | 93 | Takuma Abe | Abe Takuma | 1:05:47 |
| 83 | 63 | Kazunori Otani | Kazunori Ohtani | 1:07:34 |
| 84 | 70 | Satoru Arakawa | Satoru Arakawa | 1:07:46 |
| 85 | 17 | Toshihiko Hagai | Toshihiko Hagai | 1:08:57 |
| 86 | 14 | Kashiwa Kobayashi | Kobayashi Kashiwa | 1:10:26 |
| 87 | 52 | Masayuki Takeuchi | Masayuki Takeuchi | 1:10:38 |
| 88 | 37 | Koichi Hoshi | Hoshi Kouichi | 1:13:25 |
| 89 | 56 | Nobuhiro Sekiya | Sekiya Nobuhiro | 1:18:25 |
| 90 | 13 | Katsuhiro Kushibiki | Masahiro Kushibiki | 1:18:50 |
| 91 | 6 | Kazunari Ito | Kazunari Ito | 1:24:26 |
10km general women
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 158 | Miyuki Shibata | Shibata Miyuki | 0:37:35 |
| 2 | 168 | Aya Oya | Ooya Aya | 0:38:58 |
| 3 | 162 | Miki Mitsuoka | Mitsuoka Miki | 0:40:57 |
| 4 | 160 | Izumi Sawai | Sawai Izumi | 0:42:16 |
| 5 | 155 | Naoka Takemoto | Naoka Takemoto | 0:43:45 |
| 6 | 152 | Asami Nishitani | Nishitani Asami | 0:46:53 |
| 7 | 172 | Toshie Tanaka | Tanaka Hisae | 0:50:57 |
| 8 | 166 | Midori Matsutani | Midori Matsuya | 0:51:39 |
| 9 | 163 | Masami Otani | Masami Ohtani | 0:52:23 |
| 10 | 167 | Asako Kuwae | Tomoko Kuwae | 0:53:00 |
| 11 | 159 | Yuko Yamagami | Yuko Yamagami | 0:53:45 |
| 12 | 153 | Shizue Nakadera | Nakadera Shizue | 0:55:48 |
| 13 | 164 | Himena Matsutani | Matsuya Kina | 0:58:19 |
| 14 | 157 | Akiyo Kakuyuki | Akiyo Kakuko | 0:58:46 |
| 15 | 169 | Michiyo Hayashi | Hayashi Michiyo | 0:58:52 |
| 16 | 165 | Chieko Nemoto | Nemoto Chieko | 0:59:28 |
| 17 | 161 | Sayako Kuroki | Kuroki Saeko | 1:02:36 |
| 18 | 171 | Miki Nakayama | Miki Nakayama | 1:03:05 |
| 19 | 170 | Yumi Iida | Yumi Iida | 1:03:32 |
| 20 | 156 | Hiromi Yamane | Yamane Hiromi | 1:03:55 |
| 21 | 151 | Yuka Kobayashi | Yuka Kobayashi | 1:06:46 |
| 22 | 173 | Yoshie Umemura | Umemura Yoshie | 1:07:23 |
| 23 | 154 | Yukari Miyatake | Miyatake Yukari | 1:08:01 |
5km
5km general men
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 221 | Taiki Ishii | Ishii Daiki | 0:16:14 |
| 2 | 229 | Shuntaro Idei | Day Shuntaro | 0:16:27 |
| 3 | 206 | Akira Shibuya | Akira Shibuya | 0:16:38 |
| 4 | 202 | Yohei Yamashita | Yamashita Yohei | 0:17:20 |
| 5 | 223 | Fielder Daichi | Note Daiichi | 0:17:27 |
| 6 | 222 | Hiroki Komatsu | Yuki Komatsu | 0:18:04 |
| 7 | 203 | Shinya Nakamura | Shinya Nakamura | 0:18:37 |
| 8 | 225 | Takahiro Toyama | Toyama Takahiro | 0:18:44 |
| 9 | 226 | Tomotada Takahashi | Takahashi Tomotada | 0:18:59 |
| 10 | 207 | Kenshiro Miyamoto | Miyamoto Kenshiro | 0:19:19 |
| 11 | 210 | Kokoro Nozawa | Shin Nozawa | 0:19:37 |
| 12 | 228 | Ryo Hotta | Ryo Horita | 0:21:12 |
| 13 | 217 | Junta Uchiyama | Junta Uchiyama | 0:22:30 |
| 14 | 220 | Shota Shimizu | Shimizu Shota | 0:22:54 |
| 15 | 204 | Giant Toyama | Naoki Toyama | 0:23:16 |
| 16 | 224 | Kazumasa Kanno | Kazumasa Kanno | 0:24:20 |
| 17 | 218 | Breaking name | Hanyu Masana | 0:25:12 |
| 18 | 215 | Akira Hanada | Akira Hanada | 0:30:33 |
| 19 | 219 | Shuhei Yamada | Yamada Shuhei | 0:30:37 |
| 20 | 212 | Takuya Uenishi | Takuya Jounishi | 0:31:36 |
| 21 | 205 | Seiichi Shibata | Shibata Seiichi | 0:31:43 |
| 22 | 227 | Katsuyoshi Takeuchi | Takeuchi Katsuyoshi | 0:32:04 |
| 23 | 201 | Masahiro Ito | Masahiro Ito | 0:33:51 |
| 24 | 209 | Isamu Inoue | Isamu Inoue | 0:35:01 |
| 25 | 214 | Hiroyasu Kamishita | Kamishita Hiroyasu | 0:37:58 |
| 26 | 208 | Masakazu Yoshida | Masakazu Yoshida | 0:40:24 |
| 27 | 216 | Naofumi Kato | Naofumi Kato | 0:40:51 |
5km general women
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 313 | Kazuko Taira | Tyra Kazuko | 0:19:01 |
| 2 | 301 | Mikiko Matsuda | Mazda Mikiko | 0:19:43 |
| 3 | 306 | Chihiro Yamada | Yamada Chihiro | 0:19:47 |
| 4 | 314 | Azusa Endo | Endo Azusa | 0:20:07 |
| 5 | 303 | Tomomi Yamada | Tomomi Yamada | 0:22:15 |
| 6 | 302 | Masako Hasegawa | Masako Hasegawa | 0:22:51 |
| 7 | 315 | Satomi Jochi | Jouchi Satomi | 0:26:58 |
| 8 | 310 | Yuuka Matsui | Yuka Matsui | 0:28:58 |
| 9 | 311 | Princess Hanada | Hanada Kisaki | 0:28:59 |
| 10 | 318 | Natsuki Shimokawa | Shimokawa Natsuki | 0:29:41 |
| 11 | 312 | Shizuka Kamata | Kamada Shizuka | 0:30:53 |
| 12 | 316 | Miho Saito | Saito Miho | 0:34:41 |
| 13 | 317 | Reina Okubo | Reina Okubo | 0:35:21 |
| 14 | 309 | Reiko Wada | Ayako Wada | 0:39:49 |
| 15 | 304 | Hiroko Komura | Hiroko Komura | 0:53:50 |
5km junior high school boys
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 406 | Souta Tashiro | Tashiro Kanata | 0:16:47 |
| 2 | 404 | Haruma Sasaki | Sasaki Haruma | 0:17:58 |
| 3 | 402 | Yoshiwara Rikuto | Yoshihara Rikuto | 0:18:02 |
| 4 | 405 | Haruhito Hirota | Hirota Hart | 0:18:45 |
| 5 | 403 | Kota Uchiyama | Uchiyama Kota | 0:21:48 |
| 6 | 401 | Shuji Inai | Inai Shuji | 0:31:15 |
5km Junior High School Girls
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 451 | Chinatsu Hishi | Hishi Chinatsu | 0:20:20 |
3km
3km general men
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 505 | Masayuki Abe | Masayuki Abe | 0:09:02 |
| 2 | 520 | Yuta Okuma | Okuma Yuto | 0:09:02 |
| 3 | 525 | Go Seo | Theo Suguru | 0:09:07 |
| 4 | 509 | Kiyotaka Abe | Abe Kiyotaka | 0:09:08 |
| 5 | 516 | Keisuke Kimura | Keisuke Kimura | 0:09:17 |
| 6 | 515 | Seiya Hitotsubashi | Ichihashi Seiya | 0:09:37 |
| 7 | 503 | Souten Takahashi | Sora Takahashi | 0:09:43 |
| 8 | 502 | Shunji Kono | Shunji Kouno | 0:10:33 |
| 9 | 521 | Masayuki Nishimura | Masanobu Nishimura | 0:10:44 |
| 10 | 523 | Shinji Ohba | Shinji Ooba | 0:11:17 |
| 11 | 524 | Yusuke Sasagi | Yusuke Sasaki | 0:12:30 |
| 12 | 517 | Takuro Fujiwara | Takuro Fujiwara | 0:12:31 |
| 13 | 519 | Sora Onodera | Onodera Sora | 0:12:33 |
| 14 | 510 | Nobutaka Ohira | Ohira Nobutaka | 0:12:46 |
| 15 | 527 | Masayasu Yamazaki | Masayasu Yamasaki | 0:13:18 |
| 16 | 506 | Masaki Tada | Tada Masaki | 0:14:32 |
| 17 | 513 | Kota Furukawa | Kyota Furukawa | 0:14:56 |
| 18 | 507 | Mitsuo Seto | Seto Mitsuo | 0:16:23 |
| 19 | 511 | Hiroyoshi Nakajima | Hiroyoshi Nakajima | 0:16:53 |
| 20 | 514 | Yuki Ogino | Yuki Ogino | 0:17:07 |
| 21 | 518 | Sakuya Fujiwara | Fujiwara Shosuke | 0:17:35 |
| 22 | 512 | Wataru Mikami | Mikami Wataru | 0:19:24 |
| 23 | 522 | Yasuhiro Sasaki | Yasuhiro Sasaki | 0:20:24 |
| 24 | 504 | Shota Sato | Shota Sato | 0:20:47 |
3km general women
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 613 | Yui Takayanagi | Yuisa Takayanagi | 0:10:40 |
| 2 | 607 | Chie Nagahama | Nagahama Chie | 0:11:25 |
| 3 | 615 | Rie Takahashi | Rie Takahashi | 0:11:55 |
| 4 | 604 | Konatsu Yasuda | Sana Yasuda | 0:12:13 |
| 5 | 602 | Chika Tsubakihara | Chika Tsubakihara | 0:13:29 |
| 6 | 606 | Mutsuko Kimura | Mutsuko Kimura | 0:13:46 |
| 7 | 608 | Miyuki Ito | Miyuki Ito | 0:15:27 |
| 8 | 609 | Sayaka Kabata | Sayaka Kabata | 0:16:04 |
| 9 | 612 | Nao Furukawa | Nao Furukawa | 0:17:25 |
| 10 | 610 | Shiori Sumita | Sumita Shiori | 0:17:39 |
| 11 | 611 | Midori Nakajima | Midori Nakajima | 0:17:57 |
| 12 | 605 | Chiaki Tsunoda | Kakuta Chiaki | 0:18:48 |
| 13 | 614 | Tomoko Inai | Tomoko Inai | 0:20:58 |
| 14 | 616 | Rika Nomura | Nomura Rika | 0:21:32 |
| 15 | 603 | Hiroko Kobayashi | Hiroko Kobayashi | 0:26:25 |
3km elementary school boys
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 712 | Yoshinori Hirota | Yoshiki Hirota | 0:11:36 |
| 2 | 704 | Riku Nagahama | Nagahama Riku | 0:11:52 |
| 3 | 705 | Soto Ueno | Ueno Aoto | 0:11:57 |
| 4 | 710 | Tadashi Fukasawa | Fukazawa Task | 0:11:58 |
| 5 | 711 | Nijiya Fujiwara | Fujiwara Kosuke | 0:12:31 |
| 6 | 701 | Inai Mukuta | Ryota Inai | 0:12:44 |
| 7 | 708 | Yoritsune Ogiya | Ogiya Lime | 0:12:54 |
| 8 | 706 | Abe Yuma | Abe Yuuma | 0:14:10 |
| 9 | 713 | Yota Kurinaka | Kurinaka Yota | 0:14:21 |
| 10 | 702 | Yuto Oobi | Obi Yuito | 0:17:33 |
| 11 | 709 | Souma Ogino | Ogino Souma | 0:18:01 |
| 12 | 703 | Haruto Sato | Shunto Sato | 0:20:46 |
3km elementary school girls
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 757 | Kurinaka Soyo | Cleaning | 0:12:12 |
| 2 | 754 | Abe Ouka | Sakura Abe | 0:12:32 |
| 3 | 752 | Nene Yamada | Yamada Nene | 0:13:13 |
| 4 | 758 | Kanshichi Nomura | Nomura Kanna | 0:15:40 |
| 5 | 753 | Haruno Matsumoto | Matsumoto Haruno | 0:15:51 |
| 6 | 755 | Riko Kabata | Rico Kabata | 0:15:51 |
| 7 | 756 | Aoi Ito | Ito Aone | 0:19:37 |
| 8 | 759 | Seki Natsuka | Seki Natsuha | 0:20:00 |
| 9 | 751 | Oobi Beniaoi | Obi Clear | 0:23:56 |
2km parent-child pair
| Ranking | Bib number | full name | Furigana | full name | Furigana | time |
| 1 | 804 | Katsutoshi Nozaki | Shouriku Nozaki | Nozaki Katsutoshi | Tom Nozaki | 0:08:16 |
| 2 | 802 | Naoki Takahashi | Tsukihi Takahashi | Takahashi Naoki | Takahashi Tsukihi | 0:08:21 |
| 3 | 810 | Yuki Ogiya | Ryusei Ogiya | Yuki Ogiya | Ogiya Ruiki | 0:08:48 |
| 4 | 803 | Makoto Hatakeyama | Asahi Hatakeyama | Hatakeyama Makoto | Hatakeyama Asahi | 0:09:12 |
| 5 | 805 | Koki Matsumoto | Yukino Matsumoto | Kouki Matsumoto | Yukino Matsumoto | 0:10:08 |
| 6 | 811 | Yuriya Togashi | Shoya Togashi | Togashi Yuriya | Togashi Shoya | 0:10:12 |
| 7 | 812 | Yoshiyuki Sato | Nobuyuki Sato | Yoshiyuki Sato | Nobuyuki Sato | 0:10:35 |
| 8 | 813 | Yukiyo Sasaki | Ren Sasaki | Sasakisa Sachiyo | Ren Sasaki | 0:11:45 |
| 9 | 801 | Takao Inai | Yuya Inai | Takao Inai | No Yuya | 0:13:21 |
| 10 | 809 | Kazuko Shimoyama | Rino Shoji | Kazuko Shimoyama | Shoji Reno | 0:14:35 |
| 11 | 808 | Mai Sakamoto | Yuryu Sakumoto | Sakumoto Mai | Sakumoto Al | 0:17:20 |
| 12 | 807 | Akihito Kamata | Soryu Kamada | Akihito Kamada | Kamata Seoul | 0:17:46 |
| 13 | 806 | Rieko Yoshikawa | Ryo Yoshikawa | Yoshikawa Rieko | Ryo Yoshikawa | 0:26:47 |
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This is an exhilarating race in which participants run through the land of Hokuryu, Japan's rice-producing region, breathing in the Hokkaido early autumn breeze.
▶ For an introduction to the Hokusho Road Race Tournament, click here >>
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▶ For an introduction to the Hokusho Road Race Tournament, click here >>
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| ❂ Duration: 30 days ❂ Area: Approximately 23 hectares ❂ Number of trees: 2 million ❂ Best time to see: Early August |
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