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Megumi Seike Wins Shanghai Half Marathon

by Brett Larner

Megumi Seike (Team Sysmex) won the half marathon competition at the Nov. 30 Shanghai International Marathon, running a PB of 1:10:15 to outclass her competitors. For Seike, a teammate of marathon great Mizuki Noguchi, it was the best result in a year which saw her make her overseas debut when she ran on the Japanese national team at March's World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A longer article detailing the marathon results is available here.

Photo by Eugene Hoshiko. Click here for additional pictures of Seike in Shanghai.
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Anonymous said…
Megumi Seike is so talanted. I can't wait to see her marathon debut. Brett is she gonna run the Nagoya Marathon? I think she's gonna win.
January 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Anonymous said…
Megumi Seike is so talanted. I can't wait to see her marathon debut. Brett is she gonna run the Nagoya Marathon? I think she's gonna win.
January 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM
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