A 2:05:16 CR for the win in Fukuoka, 1:02:58 at midway and a smoking 1:02:18 principally solo 2nd half, 2 seconds underneath the outdated report set again in pre-super shoe days in 2009 by the nice Tsegaye Kebede. Actually, what else is there to say? Yoshida was nice. Within the pack by means of 25 km, then throwing down at dropping 2:06:31 man Yusuke Nishiyama and everybody else besides Israeli Tadesse Getahon, who lasted one other 5 km earlier than dropping off, then dropping out shattered and damaged.
NR holder Kengo Suzuki blasted the final a part of the outdated Lake Biwa course to run the NR of two:04:56, so Yoshida was up towards a reasonably laborious mark to crack. However 2:05:16 was sufficient to erase Kebede’s CR and moved Yoshida as much as all-time Japanese #3 behind solely Suzuki and Yohei Ikeda, who ran 2:05:12 in Berlin in September. And it isn’t like circumstances had been that simple, windy, sunny, and heat exterior the shadows. Solely 5 folks within the high 25 ran PBs, which makes Yoshida’s run all of the extra spectacular. That sort of velocity within the 2nd half on the Tokyo World Championships, for which he turned the fifth Japanese man to qualify, and it might get attention-grabbing.
Nishiyama, who missed the two:06:30 Tokyo Worlds normal by just one second on the Tokyo Marathon in February, was 2nd in 2:06:54, lacking out on qualification however just about sure to be in on rankings. Former Nihon College star Patrick Mathenge Wambui ran a PB of two:08:28 for third, with Kenya Sonota and Kohei Futaoka, like Nishiyama grads of Komazawa College, 4th and fifth in 2:08:52 and a couple of:09:46. Newbie Ryuichi Yoshioka ran a giant PB of two:10:50 for eighth, and additional down the sector Vincent Lam, coached by Paris Olympian Rory Linkletter, took nearly a minute off the Hong Kong NR with a 2:15:31 for sixteenth.
Fukuoka Worldwide Marathon
Fukuoka, 1 Dec. 2024
1. Yuya Yoshida (GMO) – 2:05:16 – CR, PB
2. Yusuke Nishiyama (Toyota) – 2:06:54
3. Patrick Mathenge Wambui (KEN/NTT Nishi Nihon) – 2:08:28 – PB
4. Kenya Sonota (JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:08:52
5. Kohei Futaoka (Chudenko) – 2:09:46
6. Vincent Raimoi (KEN/Suzuki) – 2:10:18
7. Bedan Karoki (KEN/Toyota) – 2:10:18
8. Ryuichi Yoshioka (Honda Tochigi) – 2:10:50 – PB
9. Kazuya Nishiyama (Toyota) – 2:11:33
10. Asuka Tanaka (RunLife) – 2:12:13
11. Shaohui Yang (CHN) – 2:12:38
12. Daisuke Doi (Kurosaki Harima) – 2:12:53
13. Yusuke Tobimatsu (Hioki Metropolis Corridor) – 2:12:56
14. Kazuya Azegami (Toyota) – 2:13:17
15. Takuma Kumagai (Sumitomo Denko) – 2:13:29
16. Vincent Lam (HKG) – 2:15:31 – NR
17. Kiyoshi Koga (Yasukawa Denki) – 2:17:39
18. Jie He (CHN) – 2:18:16
19. Tomohiro Kaijo (Kanazawa Metropolis Corridor) – 2:18:17
20. Jake Barraclough (GBR) – 2:18:28
21. Daigo Tomimura (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) – 2:18:35
22. Takeru Ikka (Jupiter RC) – 2:19:11
23. Naoya Sato (Miraspo) – 2:19:14 – PB
24. Tesfalem Weldu Dejen (ERI) – 2:19:45
25. Tomohiro Ozawa (Tokyo Metropolis Corridor) – 2:20:26
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61. Kenta Murayama (Asahi Kasei) – 2:26:00
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DNF – Yitayew Abuhay (Israel)
DNF – Naoki Aiba (Chudenko)
DNF – Tadesse Getahon (Israel)
DNF – Michael Githae (KEN/Suzuki)
DNF – Luka Musembi (KEN)
DNF – Tony Ah-Thit Payne (Thailand)
DNF – Ryu Takaku (Yakult)
DNF – Lemeck Too (KEN)
DNF – Bethwel Yegon (KEN)
DNF – Shuhei Yamamoto (Aichi T&F Assoc.)
DNF – Koki Yoshioka (Kyudenko)
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