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Paris Olympics women's marathon team member Mao Ichiyama (Shiseido) ran the Mastercard New York Mini 10k in the U.S.A. this weekend. Running as part of her training, she was 25th in 35:41 in what will be her final race before the Paris Olympics. Ichiyama finished 8th at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and took 2nd at the Marathon Grand Championship Olympic trials race last Oct. 15 to qualify for her second-straight Olympic marathon. In January she ran 1:12:26 at the Okukuma Road Race half marathon and 1:45:21 to win February's Ome Road Race 30 km. Also racing in the U.S. this weekend was men's Olympic trials 3rd-placer Suguru Osako (Nike). Running at the Portland Track Festival in Oregon, Osako was 6th in the 10000 m in 28:16.00 in his first track race since last November's Hachioji Long Distance 10000 m. Doing it as a training run, Osako ran the first half at 66-68' per lap, clocking even splits of 5:40 at 2000 m and 11:20 at 4000 m. He slowed gradually after 6000 m but ...

Two top international meets over the weekend featured some of Japan's best track athletes. Women's 10000 m year leader Yuka Takashima (Team Shiseido) ran in the Netherlands' FBK Games on Saturday. Far off the 31:33.33 PB she set last month at the Payton Jordan meet in California, Takashima managed only 33:08.76 for 12th of 13 finishers nearly two and a half minutes behind Ethiopian winner Gelete Burka 's world-leading 30:40.87. Racing for the first time since his debut at April's Boston Marathon , Suguru Osako (Nike Oregon Project) ran the 5000 m Sunday at the Portland Track Festival. Clearing 13:30 for the first time since his Japanese national record two years ago, Osako was 3rd in 13:25.56 just over two seconds behind Kirubel Erassa (U.S.A.) and Morgan McDonald (Australia). Still three seconds shy of the 13:22.60 qualifying standard for August's London World Championships, Osako's performance means that at the time of writing the only Japanese ma...

Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, U.S.A., 6/12/16 click here for complete results Men's 1500 m Heat 2 1. Weston Strum (unattached) - 3:39.89 2. Eric Avila (Hoka One One) - 3:40.21 3. Chris Sandoval (Zatopek) - 3:40.36 4. Travis Burkstrand (Brooks ID) - 3:40.60 5. Suguru Osako (Nike Oregon Project) - 3:40.99 Women's 1500 m Heat 4 1. Millie Paladino (West Virginia) - 4:23.15 2. Morgan Mosby (unattached) - 4:23.79 3. Nozomi Musembi Takamatsu (Nike Oregon Project) - 4:24.43 4. Annie Will (unattached) - 4:24.50 5. Nicole Hutchinson (Hershey Harriers) - 4:26.50

by Brett Larner 大迫傑 Suguru Osako @sugurusako 途中棄権 DNF 5Km @OregonPJT #早稲田大学 Waseda #陸上競技 #PTF15 2015年6月14日 pic.twitter.com/AKxW7yHw0S — TrackAndFieldPhoto (@TaFphoto) June 15, 2015 Former Waseda University star Suguru Osako 's string of bad luck in his snakebitten move away from the corporate leagues to embattled coach Alberto Salazar 's Nike Oregon Project continued with a DNF in Sunday's Portland Track Festival 5000 m.  After setting three national records while training under Salazar with quasi-NOP status for the last couple of years Osako's full NOP debut was shot down with the cancellation of the 5000 m at May's Hoka One One Middle Distance Classic due to dangerous weather conditions.  His belated debut came two weeks later at the Prefontaine Classic, where he missed the 2015 World Championships 10000 m qualifying standard of 27:45.00 by just 0.24 seconds.  Just days later the NOP was hit by doping allegations against Salazar and athlete Galen Rup...