17th Ekiden Race was Organized at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkiye
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkiye (TMMT) held traditional "Ekiden" race on 14th July . This year, 1.188 runners - 132 teams participated in the event. In Ekiden race 2019, "Legend A team" of TMMT was the winner again, being followed by New Legend A team and Dragon team.
Ekiden race is organized by TMMT aiming to strengthen teamwork and increase motivation of employees.
Ekiden, which means long distance race, was born in Japan in 1917. One team consists of deveral runners and they hand over a kind of belt named "tasuki" to each other