With Niiya's withdrawal the top domestic seed in Nagoya is now Rika Kaseda (Daihatsu), 2:21:55 in Berlin 3 years ago. The complete remaining Nagoya field is here.
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An Olympian in the marathon at the Tokyo Olympics, Shogo Nakamura (Fujitsu) announced on his social media that he has entered Waseda University 's Graduate School of Sport Science with the start of the new academic year this week. A graduate of Mie's Ueno Kogyo H.S. , Nakamura went to Komazawa University before joining Fujitsu in 2015. His senior year of high school he was 3rd overall and 2nd Japanese in the 5000 m at the National High School Track and Field Championships, and in the fall the same year he ran what was at the time the 7th-fastest high school mark ever, 13:50.38. At Komazawa he scored four individual stage wins across the three big university ekidens. In 2019 he won the MGC Race, Japan's marathon trials for the Tokyo Olympics, where he was 62nd in 2:22:23. Nakamura indicated that he would be studying "top sports management" under professor Takeo Hirata . "I'll be balancing competition and academics," Nakamura wrote. "I'm r...
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* Rino Goshima's debut marathon performance. I have high expectations because of her previous road running exploits;
* Rika Kaseda - can she capitalize on her outstanding half marathon form;
* Sayaka Sato - in training her focus has been on building endurance for the 2nd half of the race where she has inevitably faltered in the past. Can she deliver results now?
* How will the 2 Australian athletes (Isobel Batt-Doyle and Leanne Pompeani) perform, (after Jessica Stenson's 2:22:56 PB at Tokyo last week, where she surprisingly, for me, beat all Japanese athletes.)
My big hope is that Rino Goshima has a great debut marathon. On paper, she may be the one to break Honami Maeda's national record in the future. At present, I can't see anyone breaking that record for some time unless Honami Maeda does it herself when she returns.