ekiden
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is a long-distance running multi-stage relay race, mostly held on roads.
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- Runners in the 2009 International Chiba Ekiden third leg
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- History
- Contemporary ekiden in Japan
- Secondary schools
- Comparison to cross country
- All-Japan High School Ekiden Championships
- Race format
- All-Japan junior high school ekiden championship
- Local and regional
- Nihonkai Boys Ekiden – Nihonkai Kurayoshi Girls Ekiden
- East Japan Women's Ekiden
- University/Collegiate
- Izumo Ekiden
- All-Japan Collegiate Women's Ekiden Championship (Morinomiyako Ekiden)
- All-Japan Collegiate (Men's) Ekiden Championship
- Biwako University Ekiden
- Shikoku Ekiden
- All-Japan Collegiate Women's Invitational Ekiden
- Tokyo-Hakone Ekiden
- Others
- Kansai Intercollegiate Ekiden
- Other major events
- All-Japan Interprefectural Ekiden Championships
- Overview
- Men's All-Japan Interprefectural Ekiden Championship
- Women's All-Japan Interprefectural Ekiden Championship – The Empress Cup
- School-Age participants
- International
- Chiba International Ekiden
- Yokohama International Women's Ekiden
- Corporate
- All-Japan Women's Corporate Ekiden Championship
- All-Japan Men's Corporate Ekiden Championship
- Asahi Ekiden
- Women's Kita-Kyushu Ekiden
- Minami Kyushu Ekiden
- Gifu to Nagoya Ekiden
- Kanto Region
- Tamagawa Ekiden Carnival
- East Japan International (Sagamihara) Ekiden
- Shounan (Hiratsuka Kanagawa) Ekiden
- Okutama (Tokyo) Ekiden
- Saitama Elementary Ekiden
- Saitama Ekiden
- Shibuya (Tokyo) New Ekiden
- Sagamihara (Kanagawa) Ekiden
- Tokyo German Village (Chiba) Ekiden
- OkuMusashi (Saitama) Ekiden
- Odaiba Ekiden
- Hachioji (Tokyo) All-Kanto Yume Kaido Ekiden
- Tokyo International Exchange Ekiden
- Kanagawa Ekiden
- Nissan Stadium (Kanagawa) Ekiden
- Tamagawa Riverside Ekiden
- Tama-ko (Tokyo) Ekiden
- Tokyo Ekiden Carnival
- Yokota (Tokyo) Ekiden
- In other regions
- Kyushu Isshu Ekiden – Grand Tour Kyushu
- Outside Japan
- Hawaii
- Guam
- Belgium
- New Zealand
- Australia
- Canada
- Singapore
- United States
- United Kingdom
- See also
- References
is a long-distance running multi-stage relay race, mostly held on roads.
The original Japanese term had nothing to do with a sport or a competition, but it simply referred to the age old post-horse or stagecoach courier system which transmitted communication by stages, instead of one horse or a man covering the entire long distance. means "station" and translates as "to communicate, to convey", therefore ekiden could be roughly translated as Station to station. The original meaning of the word is reflected in its rule where each runner at the end of their run has to pass down their sash to the next runner.