Kipchoge’s major competitors comes from 2019 and 2020 Tokyo winner Birhanu Legese (Ethiopia) and 2019 Doha World Championships silver medalist Mosinet Geremew (Ethiopia). Kipchoge’s finest time in a respectable race since setting the two:01:39 world file in 2018 was his 2:02:37 win in London 2019, and each Birhanu and Mosinet have run inside 18 seconds of that. Mosinet and Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia) each beat Kipchoge in London 2020, and with Tola’s 2:03:39 win in Amsterdam final fall virtually a minute quicker than Kipchoge’s finest time of 2020 and 2021 he is on the listing of people that may take away a Tokyo win too. Likewise for Doha bronze medalist Amos Kipruto (Kenya). Jonathan Korir (Kenya) and Japanese NR holder Kengo Suzuki (Fujitsu) spherical out the listing of present sub-2:05 runners, with Shura Kitata (Ethiopia) simply exterior. Given the quantity of people that’ve run quicker than Wilson Kipsang‘s 2:03:58 occasion file, the possibilities are greater that we’ll see it go than the ladies’s.
2021 Tokyo Marathon
Elite Subject Highlights
Tokyo, 6 Mar. 2022
instances listed are finest in final 3 years besides the place famous
Girls
Brigid Kosgei (Kenya) – 2:14:04 (Chicago 2019)
Angela Tanui (Kenya) – 2:17:57 (Amsterdam 2021)
Ashete Bekere (Ethiopia) – 2:18:18 (London 2021)
Hiwot Gebrekidan (Ethiopia) – 2:19:35 (Milan 2021)
Gotytom Gebreslase (Ethiopia) – 2:20:09 (Berlin 2021)
Mao Ichiyama (Wacoal) – 2:20:29 (Nagoya 2020)
Sara Corridor (U.S.A.) – 2:20:32 (Marathon Challenge 2020)
Helen Bekele (Ethiopia) – 2:21:01 (Tokyo 2019)
Natsuki Omori (Daihatsu) – 2:28:38 (Nagoya 2021)
Shiho Kaneshige (GRlab Kanto) – 2:28:51 (Osaka Int’l 2020)
Hitomi Niiya (Sekisui Kagaku) – 2:30:58 (Nagoya 2009)
Miharu Shimokado (SID Group) – 2:32:48 (Osaka Int’l 2020)
Yui Okada (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:32:00 (Nagoya 2020)
Hitomi Mizuguchi (Uniqlo) – 2:32:33 (Osaka Int’l 2020)
Mai Fujisawa (Hokkaido Excel AC) – 2:35:52 (Kanazawa 2021)
Tomomi Sawahata (Sawahatters) – 2:36:45 (Osaka Int’l 2022)
Debut / Do-Over
Kaori Morita (Panasonic) – 1:10:28 (Nat’l Corp. Half 2021)
Rika Kaseda (Daihatsu) – 31:39.86 (Nat’l Championships 2020)
Males
Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) – 2:02:37 (London 2019)
Birhanu Legese (Ethiopia) – 2:02:48 (Berlin 2019)
Mosinet Geremew (Ethiopia) – 2:02:55 (London 2019)
Amos Kipruto (Kenya) – 2:03:30 (Valencia 2020)
Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia) – 2:03:39 (Amsterdam 2021)
Jonathan Korir (Kenya) – 2:04:32 (Amsterdam 2021)
Kengo Suzuki (Fujitsu) – 2:04:56 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Shura Kitata (Ethiopia) – 2:05:01 (London 2019)
Hidekazu Hijikata (Honda) – 2:06:26 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Kyohei Hosoya (Kurosaki Harima) – 2:06:35 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Ryu Takaku (Yakult) – 2:06:45 (Tokyo 2020)
Hiroto Inoue (Mitsubishi Juko) – 2:06:47 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Yusuke Ogura (Yakult) – 2:06:51 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Daisuke Uekado (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:06:54 (Tokyo 2020)
Toshiki Sadakata (Mitsubishi Juko) – 2:07:05 (Tokyo 2020)
Yuya Yoshida (GMO) – 2:07:05 (Fukuoka Int’l 2020)
Simon Kariuki (Kenya/Togami Denki) – 2:07:18 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Masato Kikuchi (Konica Minolta) – 2:07:20 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Shin Kimura (Honda) – 2:07:20 (Tokyo 2020)
Kento Kikutani (Toyota Boshoku) – 2:07:26 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Yuta Shimoda (GMO) – 2:07:27 (Tokyo 2020)
Tadashi Isshiki (GMO) – 2:07:39 (Tokyo 2020)
Masaki Sakuda (JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:07:42 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Michael Githae (Kenya/Suzuki) – 2:07:51 (Fukuoka Int’l 2021)
Atsumi Ashiwa (Honda) – 2:07:54 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Laban Korir (Kenya) – 2:07:56 (Amsterdam 2021)
Kenya Sonota (JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:08:11 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Kento Otsu (Toyota Kyushu) – 2:08:15 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Naoya Sakuda (JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:08:21 (Fukuoka Int’l 2020)
Daisuke Hosomori (YKK) – 2:08:28 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Keisuke Hayashi (GMO) – 2:08:52 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Kazuma Kubo (Nishitetsu) – 2:08:53 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Chihiro Miyawaki (Toyota) – 2:09:04 (Tokyo 2020)
Takumi Kiyotani (Chugoku Denryoku) – 2:09:13 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Yuki Sato (SGH Group) – 2:09:18 (Berlin 2018)
Kei Katanishi (JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:09:27 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Yuki Takamiya (Yakult) – 2:09:30 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Taku Fujimoto (Toyota) – 2:09:36 (Fukuoka Int’l 2019)
Takamitsu Hashimoto (Komori Corp.) – 2:09:43 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Keisuke Tanaka (Fujitsu) – 2:10:07 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Kensuke Horio (Toyota) – 2:10:21 (Tokyo 2019)
Akira Tomiyasu (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) – 2:10:29 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Ryo Matsumoto (Toyota) – 2:10:32 (Lake Biwa 2020)
Ryota Komori (NTN) – 2:10:33 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Takuma Kumagai (Sumitomo Denko) – 2:10:41 (Fukuoka Int’l 2021)
Yuki Nakamura (Sumitomo Denko) – 2:10:47 (Lake Biwa 2021)
Takuma Shibata (Komori Corp.) – 2:10:48 (Hofu 2020)
Shota Saito (JFE Metal) – 2:10:50 (Beppu-Oita 2020)
Daiji Kawai (Toenec) – 2:10:50 (Lake Biwa 2019)
Junnosuke Matsuo (NTT Nishi Nihon) – 2:11:00 (Beppu-Oita 2020)
Asuka Tanaka (Runlife) – 2:11:07 (Fukuoka Int’l 2020)
Taiki Yoshimura (Asahi Kasei) – 2:11:13 (Hofu 2019)
Toshinori Watanabe (GMO) – 2:11:17 (Katsuta 2020)
Yoshiyuki Hara (Gotemba Takigahara SDF Base) – 2:11:21 (Hofu 2020)
Benard Kimani (Kenya/Comodi Iida) – 2:11:31 (Eindhoven 2019)
Debut / Do-Over
Nicholas Kosimbei (Kenya/YKK) – 1:00:20 (Lisbon Half 2019)
Tomoya Ogikubo (Yakult) – 1:00:43 (Nat’l Corp. Half 2022)
Masashi Nonaka (Osaka Fuel) – 1:00:48 (Nat’l Corp. Half 2022)
Naoki Koyama (Honda) – 1:01:08 (Nat’l Corp. Half 2020)
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