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by Brett Larner Marathon national record holder Mizuki Noguchi (Team Sysmex) and newly-anointed Beijing World Championships team member Masakazu Fujiwara (Team Honda) put in an appearance at Sunday's 25th anniversary Lisbon Half Marathon.  Noguchi, who in recent years has had more DNS that starts in her scheduled races, made a rare start but proved ineffectual, opening at a conservative pace well outside the lead pack but fading badly later in the race to finish 16th in just 1:19:07.  Fujiwara, making the Beijing team off a 2:09:06 at December's Fukuoka International Marathon, started more aggressively, on track for a low 1:02 time through 10 km but struggling over the second half before finishing just outside the top 10, 11th in 1:04:10. 25th Lisbon Half Marathon Lisbon, Portugal, 3/22/15 click here for complete results Women 1. Rose Chelimo (Kenya) - 1:08:22 2. Sara Moreira (Portugal) - 1:09:18 3. Priscah Jeptoo (Kenya) - 1:09:21 4. Purity Cherotich Rionoripo (...

http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/bedan-karoki-edp-half-marathon-of-lisbon-iaaf Bedan Karoki is based in Tokyo where he runs for the DeNA Running Club corporate team coached by marathon legend Toshihiko Seko .  7th-placer Paul Tanui runs for the Kyushu-based Kyudenko Team alongside 2:08:00 marathoner Kazuhiro Maeda .  London Olympian Ryo Yamamoto  (Team SGH Group Sagawa) was 20th in a weak 1:05:50 .

http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/etc/news/20120930-OHT1T00281.htm translated by Brett Larner 2004 Athens Olympics women's marathon gold medalist and marathon national record holder Mizuki Noguchi  (Team Sysmex) ran at a half marathon in Lisbon on Sept. 30, finishing 4th in 1:12:20.  Having run her first marathon in four years at March's Nagoya Women's Marathon, the 34-year-old Noguchi ran the race as a training run with an eye toward making the team for next year's World Championships in Moscow.  Noguchi's coach Hisakazu Hirose  commented, "Her race showed that there are still some issues to work out, but as an indication of her condition at this stage I'd say it was OK."

http://running.competitor.com/2012/09/news/stars-coming-out-for-rock-n-roll-portugal_59480 Marathon national record holder Mizuki Noguchi  (Team Sysmex) will line up for tomorrow's Rock 'n' Roll Portugal half marathon in Lisbon.  The year-leading half marathon time by a Japanese woman is 1:09:47 by Tomomi Tanaka  (Team Daiichi Seimei), set in winning March's National Corporate Half Marathon Championships.  No Japanese woman has broken 1:09 since Yukiko Akaba 's 1:08:50 win at the 2009 Sendai International Half Marathon. Noguchi's 2:19:12 course record at the Berlin Marathon will be under attack as well tomorrow by a group of top Ethiopians.   Yuri Kano  (Team Shiseido) will also be in the women's race, with a group of Japanese men including 2010 Tokyo Marathon winner Masakazu Fujiwara  (Team Honda) and 2:11 men Atsushi Ikawa  (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) and Suehiro Ishikawa  (Team Honda) in the men's race.  More information: http://iaaf....