General Tokyo is stable, with the boys’s NR holder, the women-only NR holder, each half marathon NR holders, the final three Fukuoka Worldwide Marathon winners, seven males with current instances below 2:07, 31 below 2:10, 112 below 2:20, and two debuting sub-61 half marathoners. Solely three ladies on the checklist together with women-only NR holder Mao Ichiyama (Wacoal) have gone sub-2:30 vs. three sub-2:40 in Osaka, which means that the sphere on the Nagoya Ladies’s Marathon the week after Tokyo ought to be fairly good.
Together with Yoshida a big group from the GMO company crew and different athletes are entered each right here and in Osaka, so the ultimate numbers at each races are prone to be a bit decrease than what’s on paper. But when the climate’s good you may nonetheless count on to see huge races each weekends. And count on Ichiyama and Suzuki to offer the world file for quickest mixed instances by a married couple in a single race, 4:27:05 by Kenyans Purity Cherotich Rionoripo and Paul Kipchumba Lonyangata in Paris 2017, a shot.
2021 Tokyo Marathon
Home Elite Subject Highlights
Tokyo, 6 Mar. 2022
instances listed are finest in final 3 years besides the place famous
Males
Kengo Suzuki (Fujitsu) – 2:04:56 (Lake Biwa 2021)
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)
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)
Masashi Nonaka (Osaka Gasoline) – 1:00:58 (Nat’l Corp. Half 2020)
Tomoya Ogikubo (Yakult) – 27:44.74 (Hachioji LD 10000 m 2021)
Naoki Koyama (Honda) – 27:55.16 (HDC Fukagawa 10000 m 2021)
Ladies
Mao Ichiyama (Wacoal) – 2:20:29 (Nagoya 2020)
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)
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