Hakone post rule

The rules of Hakone Post Biography are as follows:

1. Entry threshold: You must complete 5 kilometers in 16 minutes and 3 seconds or 1 kilometers in 34 minutes before you can apply for Hakone Post Biography.

2. Participating teams: 21 teams including the top 1 universities that won the seed right in the last competition, the 1 universities that passed the preliminary competition in October, and the Kanto Student Union participated in the competition. The team of Kanto Student Union will be selected from the top players in universities that have not passed the pre-selection (each school has at most one student. Time as a reference).

3. Rules of the competition: During the competition, each player wears a special competition suit made by each school and a slender shoulder strap. This shoulder strap is a spiritual symbol of passing on one stick after another. If you lag behind the first team for more than 2 minutes, you will be disqualified from the relay. The starting sequence of the return trip depends on the order of the first day's trip, and it should be carried out according to the time difference between them.

Introduction to Hakone Post Biography

Hakone Post Biography (Hakone Lisi Walking Race) is a Japanese men's relay race for college students, sponsored by Kanto Student Track and Field Union. The competition is divided into two days, the first day is going straight (from Tokyo to Hakone) and the second day is going back (from Hakone to Tokyo). The total distance of the whole competition is 217 kilometers, which is divided into 1 sections, and the distance of each section ranges from 2.8 kilometers to 23.1 kilometers.

Hakone Biography is a relay race held in Japan on January 2-3 every year. It was founded in 192 by the father of Japanese marathon, Jin Lisi and others, and is currently sponsored by the Kanto Student Athletics Union, with the help of Yomiuri Shimbun. The first congress was attended by Waseda University, Keio University, Meiji University and Tokyo Higher Normal University (now Tsukuba University), so it was also called the four universities post race.