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complete report coming shortly 74th Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon Oita, 1 Feb. 2026 complete results Men 1. Getachew Masresha (Ethiopia) - 2:06:49 - PB 2. Yuya Yoshida (GMO) - 2:06:59 3. Asahi Kuroda (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 2:07:03 4. Sota Fukutani (Kurosaki Harima) - 2:07:11 - PB 5. Hiroto Inoue (Mitsubishi Juko) - 2:07:36 6. Kiyoshi Koga (Yasukawa Denki) - 2:07:46 - PB 7. Itta Tameike (Chuo Univ.) - 2:07:59 - debut 8. Mohamed Reda El Aaraby (Morocco) - 2:08:01 9. Kento Kikutani (Toyota Boshoku) - 2:08:17 10. Hinata Shirakawa (Chuo Univ.) - 2:08:48 - debut 11. Hiroshi Ichida (Logisteed) - 2:09:10 - PB 12. Mizuki Higashi (Aisan Kogyo) - 2:09:29 13. Daiki Hattori (Toyota Boshoku) - 2:09:31 - debut 14. Takanori Ogata (Toyota Boshoku) - 2:09:49 - PB 15. Takato Suzuki (GMO) - 2:09:57 - debut 16. Shota Nishimura (Aichi Seiko) - 2:10:12 - debut 17. Kazuma Ohata (Yasukawa Denki) - 2:11:08 - PB 18. Yudai Fukuda (Runners Connect) - 2:11:16 - PB 19. Kyosuke Hiramatsu (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 2:11...

On the one hand it was too windy for really fast times at the Marugame Half , but on the other it wasn't, apparently. It was pretty much a strong tailwind over the first 10 km and just a strong a headwind over the last 10, so it wasn't a surprise that the lead group of men went through 5 km in 13:59 and 10 km in 27:51. Up front in it were 59:30 collegiate record co-holders Richard Etir and Kotaro Shinohara , and sub-59:30 guy Emmanuel Maru . But with the National University Half Marathon having moved to Marugame last year there were a million fast Hakone kids up in it to, Hiromichi Nonaka from Koku Gakuin University leading the way but lots more right behind. Etir and Maru opened up on the field after the turnaround, and by 15 km Etir was alone, 9 seconds ahead of Maru and on sub-59 pace running into the wind. Like everyone else he struggled to keep pace in the wind, sub-59 slipping away but easily taking the win in 59:07, a CR and new collegiate record by 23 seconds. Maru e...