Japan-based Kenyan Pauline Kamulu (Route Inn Hotels) outran defending champion Rei Ohara (Tenmaya) and three of Japan's best upcoming young talents to cut 13 seconds off the course record as she won the 36th edition of the Sanyo Ladies Road Race half marathon.
Kamulu, Ohara and 2017 national cross country champion Mao Ichiyama (Wacoal) set off near 1:08-flat pace, a time no Japanese woman has cleared in almost 12 years. Behind them, Rio Olympian Miyuki Uehara and the debuting Azusa Sumi (Univ. Ent.) went at a more conservative pace while keeping the leaders in sight. After 5 km Kamulu through in a surge to drop her Japanese competition, going through 10 km in 32-flat and pushing on alone to finish in 1:08:04, a new course record and a PB by well over a minute and a half.
山陽女子ロードレース
ハーフの部
優勝
パウリン・カムル選手（ルートインホテルズ）1:08:04 大会新！#山陽女子ロードレースpic.twitter.com/3uojPTmBJY — 岡山陸上マニア (@okariku333) December 23, 2017
Behind her, Ohara and Ichiyama fought to keep it on sub-1:09 pace. Ohara began …
Kamulu, Ohara and 2017 national cross country champion Mao Ichiyama (Wacoal) set off near 1:08-flat pace, a time no Japanese woman has cleared in almost 12 years. Behind them, Rio Olympian Miyuki Uehara and the debuting Azusa Sumi (Univ. Ent.) went at a more conservative pace while keeping the leaders in sight. After 5 km Kamulu through in a surge to drop her Japanese competition, going through 10 km in 32-flat and pushing on alone to finish in 1:08:04, a new course record and a PB by well over a minute and a half.
山陽女子ロードレース
ハーフの部
優勝
パウリン・カムル選手（ルートインホテルズ）1:08:04 大会新！#山陽女子ロードレースpic.twitter.com/3uojPTmBJY — 岡山陸上マニア (@okariku333) December 23, 2017
Behind her, Ohara and Ichiyama fought to keep it on sub-1:09 pace. Ohara began …