Tokyo, Japan

12th June, "The Skate Around The World in 24 Hours" took place in Tokyo. It was a damp heat day after the typhoon, the temperature climbed to 29.1 C. But Yoshimi skated just 52.7 km on Kokai-river Trail of the way from Fjishiro to Shimodate in three hours.

Number of participants: Seven mens, 27 to 56 years old
Six skaters roll 65.7km and the other roll 49.3km
Six skaters roll for 3:27 and the other for 2:27

Yukio Masuda
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Photo of 24 Skate Guys at 40.1km point Shimotsuma but without Yoshimi. Left to right : Hima, Masa, Kohama on knee, Yabachi, Kameyama and me Yukio

History of this page:
19th of June 2005: First version
14th of June 2005: Almost empty page