SPEED STAR 30m Dash Challenge Makes First Kyushu Stop in Fukuoka
The Fukuoka stop extends the event's practice of staging sprinting inside everyday commercial spaces, this time at a shopping mall's outdoor sports park, as the series expands across Japan.
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The JAAF-certified participation event SPEED STAR 30m Dash Challenge comes to Mitsui Shopping Park Lalaport Fukuoka on November 8, 2026, its first Kyushu venue. Ambassador Nobuharu Asahara, a Beijing Olympics men's 4x100m relay silver medalist, will lead a kids running clinic. The day includes individual and team time trials plus an athlete competition. A free 30m experience lane requires no advance signup. Registration for the main programs opens September 9.
The event's concept is "Put your all into life's sprint," and it has built its run of venues around places people already gather: a Sendai shopping street and arena, the rooftop of a shopping park in Osaka Kadoma, a community sports club in Kyoto Fukuchiyama. Fukuoka's stage is the outdoor sports park on the fourth floor of Lalaport Fukuoka, picked as the first Kyushu site.
The 2025 Tokyo event drew about 600 participants, and Osaka logged 538 runners with about 4,000 visitors. This year's Sendai stops counted 638 runners and about 1,800 visitors before the series moves on to Osaka Kadoma, Kyoto Fukuchiyama, Tokyo, and Fukuoka.
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