By holding our Sports Science Seminars and sponsoring the Tanigawa Mari Half Marathon, we aim to promote sports as a way to better health.
Sysmex Sports Science Seminar
"Science of Sports and Nutrition" Seminar
Sports Science Seminar
Since fiscal 2002, Sysmex Corporation has held an annual Sysmex Sports Science Seminar on the theme of “the science of sports and nutrition.”
A number of prominent figures in the vanguard of nutrition science spoke at the 7th seminar in Kobe in December 2008. Included among the guest speakers for the event were Norimasa Hirai, coach of Beijing Olympic Games gold medalist swimmer Kosuke Kitajima, and Nobuharu Asahara, Beijing Olympic Games 400 m relay bronze medalist. Also on the program for the day was a discussion under the title of “Looking Back on the Beijing Olympic Games-Conditioning of Top Athletes.”
With 550 visitors in attendance, the seminar proved to be a major success.
Supporting Events
Sponsoring the Tanigawa Mari Half Marathon
Sponsorship of Tanigawa Mari Half Marathon
Sysmex Corporation has been an official sponsor of the annual Tanigawa Mari Half Marathon since 2004.
Held in January in Tokyo, the 2009 meet was joined by more than 10,000 citizen runners, making it the largest half marathon in Japan.
