Omare and Hayashida Win Deepest-Ever Nationwide Company Half Marathon, Goshima Breaks Girls-Solely NR

The fiftieth anniversary Nationwide Company Half Marathon and 10 km Championships went off with a bang Sunday in Yamaguchi with historic ends in each the ladies’s and males’s races regardless of chilly and wet situations.

Within the girls’s half marathon, debut marathon NR holder Yuka Ando (Wacoal) and Rino Goshima (Shiseido), course report breaker on November’s Nationwide Company Girls’s Ekiden 10.0 km Fifth Stage and 2019 World College Video games 10000 m silver medalist, went out comparatively conservatively on observe for simply over 69 minutes at 5 km in 16:24. Kenyan Dolphine Nyaboke Omare (U.S.E.) caught up shortly after that and actually acquired issues shifting, taking them by 10 km in 32:33 and 15 km in 48:29. That was an excessive amount of for Goshima, who dropped 9 seconds behind by 15 km, and a bit later for Ando. Omare hammered on to undergo 20 km in 1:04:19 en path to a 1:07:56 course report for the win, 15 seconds underneath the outdated report set by Yukiko Akaba in 2008.

Goshima caught Ando at 20 km and pushed on to interrupt Akaba’s 1:08:11 women-only NR by 8 seconds in 1:08:03, going 10 seconds sooner than Omare after 20 km with a 3:08 closing km. Ando simply missed additionally breaking Akaba’s mark, taking third in 1:08:13, a stable tune-up for subsequent month’s Nagoya Girls’s Marathon. Sakiho Tsutsui (Yamada Holdings) was the one different girl underneath 70 minutes, taking 4th in 1:09:54. Nationwide report holder Hitomi Niiya (Sekisui Kagaku) ran at goal Tokyo Marathon tempo on observe for mid-69 however light quickly late within the race, protecting the final km in 3:23 and ending fifth in 1:10:12, simply holding off teammate Chikako Mori and Yuna Daito (Tenmaya) who each clocked 1:10:12 PBs.

The ladies’s 10 km began off like a JV race earlier than going wild, with the primary 5 km going out in solely 17:26 and Moe Shimizu (Wacoal) clocking a large damaging cut up 16:01 second half to win in 33:28 vs. the 32:09 CR set by Yui Fukuda in 2018. Solely ten girls cleared 34 minutes and there was no males’s race, leaving the ten km distance one of the puzzlingly underexploited within the Japanese system.

However the shinkansen impact was in full impact within the males’s half marathon. It was huge, with 15 runners underneath 61 minutes, all Japanese, and world record-setting counts of 56 underneath 62 minutes, 110 underneath 63, 143 underneath 64, and 161 underneath 65. Yusuke Tamura (Kurosaki Harima), Yuki Muta (Hitachi Butsuryu) and 20-year-old Hiroto Hayashida (Mitsubishi Juko) took it out in 14:29 for the primary 5 km, 1:01:07 tempo, with a lead pack of 138 in tow, and pure momentum took it from there.

2020 winner and 2021 Fukuoka Worldwide Marathon runner-up James Gitahi Rungaru (Chuo Hatsujo), Daniel Muiva Kitonyi (Observe Tokyo), final yr’s prime Japanese man Takashi Ichida (Asahi Kasei) and Tamura led at 10km in 28:50, 1:00:50 tempo, with the lead pack right down to 51. Tamura, Hayashida, and three others together with Toyo College‘s Kazuki Matsuyama have been up entrance at 15 km in 43:14, 1:00:48 tempo with the pack right down to 23.

21-year-old Chikara Yamano (Komazawa Univ.), considered one of ten college runners given permission to run the Company Championships after final week’s Marugame Half Marathon was canceled on quick discover, was the primary one to make a break for it, opening a 2-second lead over Tamura, Hayashida, Matsuyama and 4 others simply earlier than 20 km. However the extra skilled company leaguers timed their responses completely, Hayashida, Ken Nakayama (Honda) and Tamura all overtaking Yamano on the again straight of the observe end to go 1-2-3 in a shared 1:00:38 that put them at all-time Japanese #8. Yamano was 4th in 1:00:40, the fastest-ever by a Japanese-born collegiate runner.

The subsequent 11 all broke 61, starting from 19-year-old first-year Ayumu Yamamoto (Koku Gakuin Univ.) in a 1:00:43 debut for eighth, to 35-year-old Yuki Sato (SG Holdings) in a PB 1:00:46 for eleventh in prep for subsequent month’s Tokyo Marathon, everybody who end forward of Sato aged 24 or youthful. Tokyo Olympian Yuma Hattori (Toyota) continued his comeback from the heatstroke he suffered there, operating a PB 1:01:24 for thirtieth.

And the numbers simply saved on going up, with new best-time-for-place information right down to no less than the sub-65 degree. Tremendous-deep Japanese males’s half marathons are nothing new, the shinkansen impact, huge numbers of individuals going out as exhausting as they will by mutual consensus and driving the shared momentum, serving to plenty of them make it to the tip. However even by these requirements, and even for the tremendous shoe period, this was one thing else.