The Inter High is a yearly cycling event where the top high school cycling clubs of the Japan compete.
Requirements[]
In order to participate, the high school clubs must win or finish in a good placement in the Inter High Qualifiers races that are held in the chosen prefectures of Japan. The team also must not have any incident involving any member that may cause bad consequences to it, such as disqualification of the Inter High edition, regardless of having qualified or not in the preliminaries.
Format[]
The Inter High is divided into three stages that span over three days and twenty teams that compete in the race, with nineteen of them being high school clubs who managed to qualify in the preliminars and a special team composed of members from different high schools. Each stage stage has a sprint checkpoint, a climb checkpoint and its own final goal. Racers who win either of these checkpoints or the final goal earn colored number tags that can be used in the following day or as some personal achievement for the person and the club. It can also be used to boost the team morale and give more pressure in the opponents.
In order to race in the following day, the cyclist must finish the goal under 40 minutes since the first cyclist completed the stage. The competitors who also finish earlier in the previous day will begin early in the following stage. The Inter High's overall winner is decided by who wins the final goal on the third day.
The positions of racers on the course are recorded every 15km, and this information is relayed to spectators and competitors alike. Sensors are used in the recording process.
First Day[]
The first day traditionally begins with a parade for the first two kilometers in order to excite the spectators of the race. The real race starts when its over. The first day is also used for the teams to test their opponents, where they send off their best cyclists in each checkpoint in order to win the colored tags. The winning team of the checkpoint leads the pack and controls its pacing until the start of the following checkpoint.
Second Day[]
The second day is usually the longest day and where the competitors need to perform a more strategic cycling in order to win the checkpoints and move to the next stage with as many members as possible.
Third Day[]
This is the day where all the teams use all their strength in order to reach the goal, usually making all the cyclists of the team spend their energy and making them retire in order to a final member win the goal line and become the overall winner of the Inter High. Unlike the other days, the sprint and climb checkpoints are not disputed like the previous days, as the teams are focusing on the final goal of the competition.
Editions[]
The Inter High currently has a total of forty-three editions, with the first thirty-seventh editions having unknown information about where the event was held or its participants.
38th Summer Inter High[]
This edition of the Inter High has no known information of where it was held so far. It is implied that this year had the participation of twenty teams, just like the others.
Awards[]
The winners of the checkpoints and goals who were awarded with the colored number tabs through the three days of the Inter High.
39th Summer Inter High[]
This edition of the Inter High was held in the Aomori Prefecture, Japan, two years before the main storyline events. It is implied that this year had the participation of twenty teams, just like the other years. However, only two of them were confirmed to participate of this edition, with one of them chosen through the qualifiers and the other formed by members of different teams who failed to participate through the preliminars.
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Awards[]
The winners of the checkpoints and goals who were awarded with the colored number tabs through the three days of the Inter High.
40th Summer Inter High[]
This edition of the Inter High was held in the Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, one year before the main storyline events. It is implied that this year had the participation of twenty teams, just like the other years. However, only nine of them were confirmed to participate of this edition.
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Awards[]
The winners of the checkpoints and goals who were awarded with the colored number tabs through the three days of the Inter High.
41st Summer Inter High[]
This edition of the Inter High was held in the Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, from August 1 to August 3 of the storyline's first year at 9:00 AM. It had the participation of twenty one teams, with twenty of them chosen through the qualifiers and one formed by members of different teams who failed to participate through the preliminars.
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Awards[]
The winners of the checkpoints and goals who were awarded with the colored number tabs through the three days of the Inter High.
42nd Summer Inter High[]
This edition of the Inter High was held in the Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, during the storyline's second year. It had the participation of twenty one teams, with twenty of them chosen through the qualifiers and one formed by members of different teams who failed to participate through the preliminars.
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Awards[]
The winners of the checkpoints and goals who were awarded with the colored number tabs through the three days of the Inter High.
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43rd Summer Inter High[]
This edition of the Inter High was held in the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, during the storyline's third year. It had the participation of twenty one teams, with twenty of them chosen through the qualifiers and one formed by members of different teams who failed to participate through the preliminars.
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Awards[]
The winners of the checkpoints and goals who were awarded with the colored number tabs through the three days of the Inter High.
Overall Achievements[]
Titles[]
Color Tags[]
Individual Award[]
Trivia[]
- In the Chapter 112 it is stated that Hakone usually monopolizes all the three tags from the first day, implying that they also did win all the color tags from the previous editions' first stage.
- In the Spare Bike Chapter 35 the Hakone team is shown participating at the 39th Inter High at the front line, implying that they possibly won the previous year (It was stated thay they won many Inter Highs before).
- Hakone Academy is so far the only team who managed to win three editions in a row.
- The race structure is similar to the Tour de France and other famous races.