The winner of Tokyo’s Yr Finish Half Marathon in 2019, Andy Buchanan ran a artful race to beat 4 sub-61 Japanese males and the debuting Australian Isaac Heyne on the Gold Coast Half Marathon. Smiling many of the means, Heyne led on 2:59/km tempo by the turnaround level simply earlier than 11 km earlier than Koki Kamata took over. From there it was a collection of turnovers that took the lead group down to simply Heyne, favourite Shunsuke Shikama, 2:06 marathoner Daisuke Doi, and Buchanan. All of them made strikes within the final 2 km, however Buchanan made the definitive one within the final km, pulling away to win in a PB 1:02:20. After falling barely behind, Heyne fought again for 2nd in 1:02:22 with Doi getting Shikama on the road for third, each clocking 1:02:25. 4 different Japanese males together with 2:05 marathoner Kenya Sonota made the highest 10.
The ladies’s race began out as a trio with Australians Leanne Pompeani and Jessica Stenson, and two-time winner Sara Corridor. Corridor was the primary to drop off, and over the second half of the race Pompeani floor Stenson all the way down to win simply in 1:09:16 unofficially. Tuning up for the Paris Olympics marathon after a controversial Australian choice course of, Stenson ran a PB 1:09:54 for 2nd, with Corridor virtually a minute additional again in third in 1:10:48. That point was in vary of all three Japanese girls within the race, however all three had been non-factors and completed within the 1:13-1:14 vary. Rinka Hida was first amongst them at seventh in 1:13:20.
