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The Nagoya Women's Marathon has announced 3 withdrawals from Sunday's race. Half marathon NR holder Hitomi Niiya (Sekisui Kagaku) has withdrawn with an Achilles tendon injury, Gold Coast Marathon CR holder Yuki Nakamura (Panasonic) due to a knee injury, and 2:25:44 runner Kaede Kawamura (Iwatani Sangyo) to run the Mar. 30 Asian Marathon Championships in Jiaxing, China. 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 . © 2025 Brett Larner, all rights reserved

https://worldathletics.org/news/report/asian-marathon-championships-2019-kamino-ri-k In addition to medalists Kamino, Matsuo and Uesugi, Japan's Mirai Waku took 4th in the women's race in 2:33:03 with Marie Imada 9th in 2:48:30.

At the same time as Suguru Osako 's breakthrough 3rd-place finish at Sunday's Fukuoka International Marathon , his Saku Chosei H.S. teammate Kenta Chiba (Fujitsu) ran the Macao International Marathon . A specialist on the same Hakone Ekiden downhill stage that produced marathon greats Hiromi Taniguchi and Yuki Kawauchi , Chiba took 6th in 2:16:33 in a race won by Kenyan Felix Kiptoo Kirwa in a Macao all-comers record 2:10:01. Chiba's time was the fastest ever by a Japanese man in Macao, taking three minutes off the previous record. A week earlier at the Asian Marathon Championships held in conjunction with China's Dongguan Marathon, Keiko Nogami (Juhachi Ginko), runner up at the 2015 Gold Coast Marathon and 2017 Hokkaido Marathon, added another 2nd-place finish to her resume as she took the silver medal 30 seconds behind North Korean Hye Gyong Kim . Surprisingly, Nogami's time of 2:29:05 was the fastest ever by a Japanese woman on Chinese soil, bettering th...

It's always a busy weekend of racing in Japan, this weekend as much as any. Saturday's main event is the Hachioji Long Distance meet at Tokyo's Hosei University. In the last few years Hachioji has become one of the world's premier track 10,000 m, the site of the current Japanese national record two years ago. The big question mark this year is half marathon national record holder Yuta Shitara (Honda) in the A-heat. After running the 1:00:17 national record and a 2:09:03 PB on back-to-back weekends at the end of September is he ready to tackle the 27:29.69 national record? It'll take a big improvement on his 27:42.71 best, but not as much as what he did in breaking the half marathon record. Also up Saturday night is the Kanto Region University 10,000 m Time Trials meet at Kanagawa's Keio University. While the very top university men will turn up at Hachioji, most looking to sharpen their times ahead of their coaches' final team selections for the Hakone...

Keiko Nogami , star runner of the Juhachi Ginko women's ekiden team, will represent Japan in the 16th Asian Marathon Championships Nov. 26 in Dongguan, China. Excited about her first time wearing the Japanese national colors, Nogami said, "I've been given a great opportunity. I'm really targeting a domestic race next year, but since I'm running this one I'll be aiming for the top." Nogami's training this season has been going well and she is in good shape. At October's Ehime National Sports Festival she finished 3rd in the women's 5000 m, and later the same month at the National Corporate Women's Ekiden Championships qualifying race she took 2nd on its toughest stage, the 10.7 km Third Stage, just 2 seconds from winning it. Nogami was selected for the Asian Marathon Championships based on her results including August's Hokkaido Marathon, where she finished 2nd in 2:30:11 in just her fourth career marathon. The race takes place t...

http://news.biglobe.ne.jp/sports/0224/jj_130224_3766698655.html translated by Brett Larner At the Asian Marathon Championships held Feb. 24 at the Hong Kong Marathon , Kumi Ogura  (Team Shikoku Denryoku) finished 2nd in 2:35:02 in her marathon debut.   Kenzo Kawabata  (Team Daisan Kogyo) took 3rd in the men's race in 2:22:22.

by Brett Larner Six noteworthy races are on the schedule for this weekend.  First among them is Saturday's Fukuoka International Cross-Country Meet , the second of two chances for Japanese athletes to pick up places on the national team for next month's World Cross-Country Championships.  Highlights of the main races will be shown on TBS beginning at 3:30 p.m., the only cross-country race in Japan with a TV broadcast. All five Japanese men in the top ten in the senior race at the Chiba International Cross-Country Meet return, led by  Keigo Yano ,  Takumi Honda  and  Shota Hattori  of 2013 Hakone Ekiden winners Nittai University .  Top competition for the additional places on the Worlds team includes #1-ranked Japanese collegiate  Suguru Osako  (Waseda Univ.), 27:44.30 man Tetsuya Yoroizaka  (Team Asahi Kasei), Ikuto Yufu and Kenta Murayama of 2012 National University Ekiden champion Komazawa University , Murayama's twin brothe...

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2013/02/20/kiji/K20130220005238180.html translated and edited by Brett Larner On Feb. 20 Rikuren, the Japanese federation, announced the Japanese entrants for the Feb. 24 Asian Marathon Championships to be held in conjunction with the 2013 Hong Kong Marathon .   Kenzo Kawabata  (Team Aisan Kogyo) will compete in the men's division with Kumi Ogura  (Team Shikoku Denryoku) representing the women.  Kawabata, 28, set his best of 2:13:40 at the 2011 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon.  Ogura, 27, ran a half marathon best of 1:10:51 earlier this month at the Kagawa Marugame International Half Marathon.

2011 Asian Marathon Championships held at Pattaya International Marathon, Thailand, 7/17/11 Men Lawrence Kiptoo Saina (Kenya) - 2:21:06 1. Mohamed Abdou Bakheet (Qatar) - 2:23:07 2. Teruto Ozaki (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 2:23:09 Peter Keter (Kenya) - 2:23:34 Joseph Mwangi (Kenya) - 2:24:52 3. Kenji Takeuchi (Team Toyota Kyushu) - 2:25:33 Women Elizabeth Chemweno (Kenya) - 2:24:09 1. Noriko Higuchi (Team Wacoal) - 2:44:10 2. Jiang Xiaoli (China) - 2:52:24 3. Pham Thi Binh (Vietnam) - 2:53:09 4. Natthaya Thanaronnawat (Thailand) - 2:53:35 5. Fan Sui Ping (Hong Kong) - 3:02:57

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