700 runners are hot running in Marunouchi, Tokyo! "3rd Bloomberg Square Mile Relay Tokyo Tournament"
The Square Mile Relay Tokyo Executive Committee will hold Bloomberg Square Mile Relay Tokyo on May 23, 2019 (Thursday), Marunouchi Nakadori, Tokyo, with the support of Bloomberg LP did.
Hidemi Sakuma
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2019/05/24
This year, the teams that have participated in the past maintained a high repeat rate of more than 70%, and the first participating companies also joined. The runners started to gather around 17:30, and when it started at 19:00, the voltage reached its climax. Runners wearing unique uniforms prepared for each team made the venue gorgeous, and many spectators continued to support the runners running hard from the roadside to the end.
As for the overall victory (Fastest Team), "Barclays_1" achieved the second straight victory in the tournament in 51 minutes and 30 seconds, which is about 2 minutes faster than last year's time.
The Fastest Female Team is "Anan (Magazine House)" (Time: 1 hour 16 minutes 45 seconds).
The Fastest Individual Winner was Yoshinori Yonera of "adidas Japan" with a time of 4 minutes and 35 seconds.
From the project themes "inclusion," "education," and "health" proposed by Special Olympics Nippon, a charity partner of "Extra Miles," each runner will work on a project that he or she wants to support in advance.Select one. After the race, it was decided to donate to the "education" project, which had the fastest average running time of the runners who voted for each project. 25% of the team participation fee, a total of 2.2 million yen, will be donated to fund the project activities.
The Fastest Female Team is "Anan (Magazine House)" (Time: 1 hour 16 minutes 45 seconds).
The Fastest Individual Winner was Yoshinori Yonera of "adidas Japan" with a time of 4 minutes and 35 seconds.
From the project themes "inclusion," "education," and "health" proposed by Special Olympics Nippon, a charity partner of "Extra Miles," each runner will work on a project that he or she wants to support in advance.Select one. After the race, it was decided to donate to the "education" project, which had the fastest average running time of the runners who voted for each project. 25% of the team participation fee, a total of 2.2 million yen, will be donated to fund the project activities.
Yuko Arimori, the chairman of Special Olympics Nippon Foundation, took the stage at the announcement of the "Extra Mile" project. "In the education project, activities to connect people with intellectual disabilities through sports and the community. Next year, I would like to participate in the race and contribute to the activities of Extra Miles. "
Kunihiro Ishibashi, representative of Bloomberg LP, said, "I was very excited to see more people running through the city as a team than last year. With the keywords of "diversity" and "social contribution" that we cherish, we would be very happy if it would be an opportunity for everyone to enjoy and deepen their ties through sports, "he recalled.
At the after-party after the race, the participants enjoyed the afterglow of the race and deepened exchanges across corporate boundaries. Marunouchi, which usually has a calm atmosphere where businessmen come and go, was filled with the enthusiasm of many runners under a vivid production for this one night, and the curtain closed grandly.
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◆About "Extra Miles", a social contribution activity through sports
"Extra Miles" by Bloomberg Square Mile RelayIt will be a social contribution activity through sports that started in 2018. In this initiative, which emphasizes ties with the local community, the charity partners of each host city propose projects that will lead to the solution of the issues faced by that city.
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◆About "Extra Miles", a social contribution activity through sports
"Extra Miles" by Bloomberg Square Mile RelayIt will be a social contribution activity through sports that started in 2018. In this initiative, which emphasizes ties with the local community, the charity partners of each host city propose projects that will lead to the solution of the issues faced by that city.
Participating runners select one project online in advance that they want to support, and the project with the fastest average running time of the runners who voted for each project is 25% of the team participation fee.Will be donated as activity funds. Through "Extra Miles", we not only aim to win the team, but also provide opportunities for social contribution through sports.
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