Japanese wins race
NZPA-Reuter Fukuoka Japan s Moscow Olympics hope, Toshihiko Seko, won the thirteenth Fukuoka international i marathon over elite foreign runners yesterday. Japan took the first three i places in the marathon. Seko, a 21-year-old student jfrom Tokyo’s Waseda University, and a 10.000 m runner, beat Hideki Kita and Shlgeru Soh to win in a fast time of 2hr 10min |2lsec. Trevor Wright, of Britain, an electrician. was fourth in '2:12:31.7, followed by the 1978 i European marathon champion, Leonid Mossev (Soviet Union>
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