Skip to main content

Guinness Officially Recognizes Suzuki and Ichiyama as Fastest Married Marathoners

2022 Oregon World Championships marathon team members Kengo Suzuki (Fujitsu) and Mao Ichiyama (Shiseido) have been officially recognized as holders of the world record for fastest combined time by a married couple in the same marathon. Guinness World Records tweeted a video of the couple receiving their world record certification on its official Twitter account on May 11.

At the Mar. 6 Tokyo Marathon, Suzuki, the men's national record holder, ran the 2nd-fastest Japanese men's time ever, 2:05:28, to finish 4th overall. Ichiyama, the women-only national record holder and 8th-placer in the Tokyo Olympics marathon, ran 2:21:02 for 6th. Their combined time of 4:26:30 beat the previous Guinness World Record by over a minute, earning them the distinction of becoming the world's fastest married couple.

source article:
translated by Brett Larner

Buy Me A Coffee

Comments

Most-Read This Week

'Kobe 2024: Aitchison, Athmani Lead Record-Breaking Thursday'

  https://www.paralympic.org/news/kobe-2024-para-athletics-world-championships-aitchison-athmani-lead-record-breaking-thursday Complete results and daily schedule from the Kobe World Para Athletics Championships are here .

Japan's First Goldless Day - Asian Athletics Championships Day Four Highlights

Day 4 of the Bangkok Asian Athletics Championships was the first without a single gold medal going to Japan, but there were still enough silvers and bronzes to go around. Robyn Lauren Brown of the Philippines outclassed the rest of the women's 400 mH final field, taking gold in 57.50. Eri Utsunomiya and Ami Yamamoto made it a Japanese 2-3, Utsunomiya running 57.73 for silver and Yamamoto 57.80 for bronze. Yusaku Kodama also scored silver in the men's 400 mH, running 48.96 behind Qatari winner Bassem Hemeida 's 48.64. Yuki Yamasaki won bronze in the heptathlon with 5696 points, Uzbekistan's Ekaterina Voronina taking gold in 6098 and Swapna Barman silver in 5840. Teammate Karin Odama was 4th in 5487. Another bronze came in the mixed 4x400 m relay, with Japan running 3:15.71 behind India's 3:14.70 and Sri Lanka's 3:15.41. Naoto Hasegawa and Ryoichi Akamatsu both cleared 2.23 m in the men's high jump, Hasegawa finishing 4th overall and Akamatsu 5th. ...

'Kobe 2024: Monday Sees Shocking Wins on the Track and the Field'

  https://www.paralympic.org/news/kobe-2024-para-athletics-world-championships-monday-sees-shocking-wins-track-and-field Complete results and daily schedule from the Kobe World Para Athletics Championships  are here .