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For the second time in its historical past Tokyo has a major course change this yr, the addition of a brand new out-and-back towards Ueno simply earlier than 10 km and an equal lower from the ultimate out-and-back towards Shinagawa. Not counting the triangular turnaround at Asakusa, meaning Tokyo has gone from one 180˚ activate the unique course to 2 on the interim course to 3 on this course, one thing that may impression its general high quality and particularly so for the wheelchair marathoners.

The ladies’s wheelchair race options solely two athletes, Japanese nationwide document holder and 2020 Tokyo winner Tsubasa Kina and legend Wakako Tsuchida, in a one-on-one follow-up to final September’s Tokyo Paralympics marathon the place Tsuchida took 4th and Kina Seventh. World document holder, Tokyo Paralympics gold medalist and 2019 Tokyo winner Marcel Hug of Switzerland is certainly one of solely two worldwide males within the wheelchair race, the place his fundamental competitors comes from Paralympics Seventh-placer Tomoki Suzuki, the 2020 Tokyo winner and the one different athlete within the race below 1:20 within the final 3 years with a 1:18:37 NR final yr.

Within the ladies’s marathon every part is dependent upon Kosgei, the Olympic silver medalist in Sapporo final summer season. No matter she or whoever wins runs it’s going to be a brand new course document, however the 2:17:45 occasion document is a few minute sooner than Kosgei has run since setting her 2:14:04 world document in 2019 and it will not be simple for her to get it, even with good climate at present within the forecast. Angela Tanui and Ashete Bekere, perhaps Hiwot Gebrekidan, might take a high-2:17 to low-2:18 race, so the potential’s there for a pack race up entrance.

An thrilling subplot comes simply behind that. As of mid-January the American and Japanese ladies’s nationwide information are tied at 2:19:12, the primary time in over 20 years that U.S. ladies have caught up. Within the race in Tokyo are U.S. half marathon NR holder Sara Corridor, Japanese women-only marathon NR holder Mao Ichiyama, and JPN half marathon NR holder Hitomi Niiya. Ethiopians Gotytom Gebreslase and Helen Bekele are proper across the identical degree, so there’s good potential for a pack run in pursuit of an NR tiebreaker, particularly with what’s certain to be an enormous group of sub-elite males surrounding them. If the highest group is on the slower facet or the Corridor/Ichiyama group is particularly aggressive then the pack may very well be even greater.

The lads’s subject has been hit by withdrawals in its higher finish, most notably 2019-2020 winner Birhanu Legese, the quickest man within the race after Kipchoge, home 2:06 guys Kyohei Hosoya and Yusuke Ogura, and a half-dozen Japanese males and JPN-based Kenyans on the 2:07 degree. Olympic gold medalist Kipchoge is the favourite, however he is nonetheless weak to #3 man Mosinet Geremew, runner-up to him by 18 seconds at London ’19. On the pre-race presser Geremew predicted a 2:03:30 to Kipchoge’s prediction of a “robust” race. A slower one nearer to the two:03:58 occasion document would deliver not less than Amos Kipruto and Tamirat Tola into the image, with the potential addition of Jonathan Korir and the highest tier of Japanese males. Kipchoge hasn’t run below 2:04 in nearly three years, so it doesn’t matter what occurs he’ll want a step again up so as to add one other World Marathon Majors title to his listing of wins.
Japanese NR holder Kengo Suzuki is within the race, and whereas he was cagey on the pre-race press convention he has talked about 2:03 to the Japanese media in latest weeks. He informed JRN final week that working Chicago final fall, the place he was 4th in 2:08:50, was an actual eye-opener when it comes to what it takes to race as a substitute of simply driving the shinkansen impact like in any respect the massive Japanese races. On the presser he stated that, as in his NR run for the win at Lake Biwa final yr, his precedence is racing with out desirous about the time. Remember the fact that in his 2:04:56 NR he ran the final 5 km in 14:23, a break up not too many individuals have bettered. Kipchoge break up 14:18 for a similar phase in his WR run. Suzuki and Ichiyama bought married final yr, including a potential little facet mission of bettering the document for fastest-ever married and couple in the identical race, 4:27:05 by Kenyans Purity Cherotich Rionoripo and Paul Kipchumba Lonyangata in Paris 2017.
Choice for Japan’s group for this summer season’s Oregon World Championships is sophisticated, with probably the most direct line being a spot on the prime of Japan’s new nationwide championship rankings. 2021 Fukuoka runner-up Kyohei Hosoya, one of many last-minute withdrawals, is at present within the prime place, however with Tokyo being the final race within the rankings sequence he is weak to being knocked off by a strong run from Suzuki or 2:06 males Hidekazu Hijikata, Ryu Takaku, Hiroto Inoue and Daisuke Uekado. Inoue, the one certainly one of them to have run 2:06 twice, is wanting particularly harmful, with an outstanding run on the New Yr Ekiden and a half marathon PB in Osaka on the finish of January. That is sufficient to have had him speaking nationwide document.
To not be neglected are 2020 and 2021 Fukuoka winners Yuya Yoshida and Michael Githae. In his two marathons so far Yoshida has but to seem like he is anyplace close to his potential, so Tokyo this time round might be a serious check of the place he actually stands among the many unbelievable depth of Japanese marathoning. Within the best-case situation and hottest hope, that is proper there alongside Suzuki. Githae attacked early in Fukuoka to win, surging off an formidable 2:05 tempo, fading to 2:07:51 however impressing along with his capability to maintain pushing by way of the powerful occasions. It is unlikely he might survive a 2:03 race however anticipate him to provide not less than 2:05 one other go. Like we noticed in Osaka final week, the sheer depth right here signifies that there’s at all times a great probability somebody completely sudden will drop a breakthrough when it counts probably the most, and with not less than six locations on the 2024 Olympic trials there for the taking in Tokyo it is nearly a given that you’ll be listening to one other identify or two for the primary time.

2021 Tokyo Marathon

Elite Subject Highlights

Tokyo, 6 Mar. 2022

occasions listed are greatest 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 Undertaking 2020)

Helen Bekele (Ethiopia) – 2:21:01 (Tokyo 2019)

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)

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)

Ryu Takaku (Yakult) – 2:06:45 (Tokyo 2020)

Hiroto Inoue (Mitsubishi Juko) – 2:06:47 (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)

Masato Kikuchi (Konica Minolta) – 2:07:20 (Lake Biwa 2021)

Kento Kikutani (Toyota Boshoku) – 2:07:26 (Lake Biwa 2021)

Yuta Shimoda (GMO) – 2:07:27 (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)

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)

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)

Debut / Do-Over

Tomoya Ogikubo (Yakult) – 1:00:43 (Nat’l Corp. Half 2022)

Naoki Koyama (Honda) – 1:01:08 (Nat’l Corp. Half 2020)

Wheelchair Girls

Wakako Tsuchida (Will Elevate) – 1:38:32

Tsubasa Kina (Ryukyu Sports activities Help) – 1:40:13

Wheelchair Males

Marcel Hug (Switzerland) – 1:17:47 (Oita 2021)

Tomoki Suzuki (Toyota) – 1:18:37 (Oita 2021)

Sho Watanabe (Toppan) – 1:24:00 (Oita 2019)

Ryota Yoshida (SUS) – 1:24:02 (Oita 2019)

Takashi Yoshida (Oku En Tout Cas) – 1:24:02 (Oita 2019)

Johnboy Smith (Nice Britain) – 1:25:45 (Grandma’s 2021)

Hiroki Nishida (Baccarat Pacific) – 1:27:19 (Oita 2021)

Masazumi Soejima (Socio Soejima) – 1:29:23 (Oita 2021)

Ryuichi Kawamuro (Honda AC) – 1:29:35 (Boston 2019)

Kota Hokinoue (Yahoo) – 1:29:38 (Oita 2021)

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