Shinsaku Kudo

Shinsaku Kudo was born in November 2004 in Funabashi, Chiba, went to Yachiyo Shoin High School, and now runs long distance at Waseda University, where running the uphill fifth leg of the Hakone Ekiden earned him the nickname "the mountain detective." What I find worth saying is that distance running is the least glamorous route to being written about at all. Nobody watches the six in the morning kilometers, and there is no shortcut around them, no burst of natural talent that lets you skip the accumulation. To have a name on record at this age means the work has already been done in the dark for years. He is barely into his twenties, and the interesting part is still ahead.

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Name (English)

Shinsaku Kudo

Name (Japanese)

工藤慎作

Reading

くどう しんさく

Born

November 10, 2004 (age 21)

Origin

Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

athletics competitor / long-distance runner

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

University

Waseda University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%A5%E8%97%A4%E6%85%8E%E4%BD%9C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135479017

Tags

• athletics competitor
• long-distance runner

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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