Gold Coast Marathon Elite Subject

Australia’s Gold Coast Marathon is a giant draw for Japanese company leaguers lately. Japanese males have received it 4 of the final 5 editions, and the final time a Japanese man wasn’t within the high two was 2015. Final 12 months Naoki Koyama set a course file 2:07:40, then went on to win the Paris Olympic marathon trials, then 2:06:33 in Osaka this previous February. On condition that sort of development, the sector this 12 months is filled with 2nd-tier Japanese males hoping to have the identical success, ten of them who’ve run 2:07 to 2:09 within the final two years.

Japanese girls received Gold Coast seven occasions within the ten years from 2007 to 2016, however since Misato Horie‘s win in 2016 they’ve solely had two Third-place finishes, one by Risa Takenaka in 2017 and the opposite by Shiho Kaneshige in 2022. Each Horie and Kaneshige are again this time, however the high Japanese lady is Rie Kawauchi, 2:25:35 in Osaka two years in the past and operating her third marathon of 2024. Her possibilities of a high three end look fairly good, however the favourite for the win and a shot at American Lindsay Flanagan‘s 2:24:43 occasion file is Kenyan Visiline Jepkesho, 2:22:52 in Seoul this 12 months. Ethiopian Sichala Kumeshi is one other podium contender at 2:26:53 in Hamburg final 12 months, with Aynalem Kasahun Teferi and Kaneshige rounding out the checklist of present sub-2:30 girls within the race.

Gold Coast Marathon Elite Subject Highlights

Gold Coast, Australia, 7 July 2024

occasions listed are greatest in 2022~2024 besides the place famous

Ladies

Visiline Jepkesho (Kenya) – 2:22:52 (Seoul 2024)

Rie Kawauchi (Japan) – 2:25:35 (Osaka 2022)

Sichala Kumeshi (Ethiopia) – 2:26:53 (Hamburg 2023)

Aynalem Kasahun Teferi (Ethiopia) – 2:29:11 (Seville 2022)

Shiho Kaneshige (Japan) – 2:29:12 (Gold Coast 2022)

Min Liu (China) – 2:29:24 (Wuxi 2024)

Sarah Klein (Australia) – 2:30:10 (Eugene 2022)

Yuki Nakamura (Japan) – 2:30:31 (Nagoya 2024)

Irene Jerobon (Kenya) – 2:30:51 (Castellon 2024)

Misato Horie (Japan) – 2:32:10 (Osaka 2022)

Tara Palm (Australia) – 2:32:25 (Osaka 2024)

Ai Ikemoto (Japan) – 2:34:17 (Hofu 2022)

Gemma Maini (Japan) – 2:35:25 (Melbourne 2023)

Ella McCartney (Australia) – 2:38:43 (Gold Coast 2023)

Abigail Nordberg (Australia) – debut – 1:11:53 (Launceston 2022)

Brigid Dennehy (New Zealand) – debut – 1:15:00 (Southport 2023

Males

Felix Kipchirchir Kandie (Kenya) – 2:07:18 (Seoul 2022)

Yuki Kawauchi (Japan) – 2:07:35 (Osaka 2023)

Timothy Kipkorir Kattam (Kenya) – 2:07:53 (Milan 2023)

Yuta Koyama (Japan) – 2:07:57 (Osaka 2023)

Mizuki Higashi (Japan) – 2:08:03 (Osaka 2024)

Yuki Nakamura (Japan) – 2:08:29 (Hofu 2022)

Kiyoshi Koga (Japan) – 2:08:30 (Beppu-Oita 2022)

Daiji Kawai (Japan) – 2:08:31 (Tokyo 2022)

Kenji Yamamoto (Japan) – 2:08:33 (Tokyo 2024)

Naoki Aiba (Japan) – 2:08:44 (Beppu-Oita 2022)

Rintaro Takeda (Japan) – 2:08:48 (Osaka 2022)

Yota Ifuku (Japan) – 2:09:26 (Nobeoka 2024)

Masaki Tsuda (Japan) – 2:10:40 (Beppu-Oita 2023)

Kibet Soyekwo (Uganda) – 2:10:58 (MIlan 2023)

Joshua Iżewski (U.S.A.) – 2:11:09 (Orlando 2024)

Geoffrey Birgen (Kenya) – 2:11:22 (Buriram 2024)

Akihiro Kaneko (Japan) – 2:11:39 (Osaka 2022)

Keisuke Yokota (Japan) – 2:11:43 (Osaka 2023)

Belay Tilahun (Ethiopia) – 2:11:49 (Dalian 2023)

Thomas Do Canto (Australia) – 2:11:51 (Valencia 2023)

Kenneth Omulo (Kenya) – 2:12:38 (Izmir 2023)

Reece Edwards (Australia) – 2:14:34 (Melbourne 2023)

Anubaike Kuwan (China) – 2:14:34 (Beijing 2022)

Liam Boudin (Australia) – debut – 1:03:02 (Sunshine Coast Half 2022)