World record-holders Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei have gained the Tokyo Marathon. Regardless of taking a improper flip after 10 km, Kipchoge placed on a masterclass efficiency, breaking the Tokyo Marathon course file and the Japanese soil file. He stepped on the fuel on the 35 km mark and didn’t look again as he distanced himself from his compatriot Amos Kipruto, crossing the end line in 2:02:40, just one minute behind his world file.
🏆 WINNER 🏆
2:02:40! @EliudKipchoge 🇰🇪 is the 2021 @tokyo42195_org champion! 4 down, two to go for the nice man in his quest to win all six #AbbottWMM races 👏 👏 👏 pic.twitter.com/Ti7HQjMMaM
— Abbott WMMajors (@WMMajors) March 6, 2022
With this win, Kipchoge now has gained 4 Abbott World Marathon Majors, now lacking solely New York and Boston. The double Olympic marathon champion got here by means of the 10K mark forward of the world file tempo. After 10K, the lead group, which included Kipchoge, took a improper flip, which ended up costing the group 10 to fifteen seconds.
Kipchoge caught to his tempo and the remainder of the lead group suffered, as males started to drop off. Ethiopia’s Mosinet Geremew, the fourth-fastest marathoner in historical past (2:02:55), who was presupposed to problem Kipchoge, dropped out of the race on the 25 km mark. Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia fell off the tempo earlier than 30 km. Kengo Suzuki, Japan’s nationwide file holder, couldn’t fairly pull off one other nationwide file, however made up a while, passing 2021 London Marathon champion Shura Kitata between 30 km and 35 km to complete fourth. Suzuki is simply the second Japanese man ever to interrupt 2:06.
Within the girls’s race, Kosgei returned to spectacular kind in a 2:16:02 efficiency (additionally a course file and Japanese soil file), main the race from begin to end. Gotytom Gebreslase of Ethiopia hung with Kosgei till 37 km, then dropped off. The U.S. half-marathon file holder, Sara Corridor, was within the combine early however discovered the tempo of the lead pack to be too swift.
As they method 35K, it appears like this #TokyoMarathon girls’s race is shaping as much as be a battle between Brigid Kosgei and Gotytom Gebreslase. pic.twitter.com/FiiwyGaD4E
— Quick Ladies (@fast_women) March 6, 2022
Double Olympic gold medallist and world file holder Marcel Hug of Switzerland gained the boys’s wheelchair race in a course file time of 1:22:16. Japan’s Tsubasa Kina gained the girls’s wheelchair race in 1:40:21, simply off the course file she set in 2020.
Prime 10 Males
- Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) 2:02:40 CR, soil file
- Amos Kipruto (Kenya) 2:03:13, PB
- Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia) 2:04:14
- Kengo Suzuki (Japan) 2:05:28
- Shura Kitata (Ethiopia) 2:06:12
- Laban Korir (Kenya) 2:06:37
- Kenya Sonota (Japan) 2:07:23, PB
- Shun Yuzawa (Japan) 2:07:31, PB
- Kento Kikutani (Japan) 2:07:55
- Michael Githae (Ethiopia) 2:07:55
Prime 10 Ladies
- Brigid Kosgei (Kenya) 2:16:02 CR, soil file
- Ashete Bekere (Ethiopia) 2:17:58
- Gotytom Gebrselase (Ethiopia) 2:18:18, PB
- Angela Tanui (Kenya)
- Hiwot Gebrekidan (Ethiopia)
- Mao Ichiyama (Japan) 2:21:02
- Hitomi Niiya (Japan) 2:21:17
- Sara Corridor (USA) 2:22:56
- Helen Bekele (Ethiopia) 2:24:33
- Kaori Morita (Japan) 2:27:38 (debut)
