http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WHM12/News/NewsDetail.aspx?id=65092 Almost simultaneously with the BUPA London 10,000, defending Ottawa Marathon champion Laban Moiben (Kenya) ran 2:09:13 to break Fujiwara's 2010 CR by 21 seconds . Moiben was the runner-up behind Fujiwara by 10 seconds in 2010. Ottawa was the only world-class marathon to have a CR held by a Japanese man. Note that the IAAF story on Moiben's CR incorrectly reports Fujiwara's old CR as 2:09:44, which was Moiben's time in that race, rather than as 2:09:34.
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