Final 12 months Margaret Akidor ran a 2-minute PB of 1:09:29 to win the Sanyo Women Highway Race half marathon. She’s again Sunday to attempt to make it 3 in a row, however she’s bought critical competitors from Pauline Kamulu, 1:07:22 in Marugame final 12 months, and final 12 months’s 10 km CR breaker Agnes Mwikali, making her debut right here. 31:17.40 runner Tabitha Njeri can be debuting. The home discipline is comparatively weak, with no present sub-1:10 Japanese ladies and Rinka Hida topping the listing at 1:10:10.
2nd and third within the 10 km final 12 months, Janet Nyiva and Kaede Kawamura are sticking to the shorter race once more this 12 months, and rather than Mwikali they have Naomi Muthoni, 31:15 in Sanyo 3 years in the past, to cope with. Sub-15 runner Susan Kamotho can be debuting.
Sanyo Women Highway Race
Okayama, 15 Dec. 2024
occasions listed are athletes’ finest in final 3 years besides the place famous
Half Marathon
Pauline Kamulu (Route Inn Lodges) – 1:07:22 (Marugame Half 2023)
Margaret Akidor (Comodi Iida) – 1:09:29 (Sanyo Women Half 2023)
Rinka Hida (Daiichi Seimei) – 1:10:10 (Osaka Half 2023)
Chiharu Suzuki (Hitachi) – 1:10:12 (Gold Coast Half 2023)
Mizuki Nishimura (Tenmaya) – 1:10:22 (Nat’l Company Half 2024)
Yukari Nagatomo (Memolead) – 1:10:34 (Nat’l Company Half 2024)
Shiori Yoshizono (Tenmaya) – 1:10:48 (Nat’l Company Half 2023)
Hikaru Kitagawa (Univ. Ent.) – 1:10:50 (Matsue Women Half 2023)
Mao Kiyota (Suzuki) – 1:10:56 (Osaka Half 2024)
Ayano Ikemitsu (Kagoshima Ginko) – 1:10:57 (Matsue Women Half 2023)
Mio Kuroda (Kyocera) – 1:11:02 (Osaka Half 2024)
Kotomi Tsubokura (Wacoal) – 1:11:02 (Sanyo Women Half 2021)
Yuri Mitsune (18 Ginko) – 1:11:07 (Osaka Half 2024)
Madoka Nakano (Iwatani Sangyo) – 1:11:18 (Sanyo Women Half 2021)
Hibiki Sakuragawa (Daiichi Seimei) – 1:11:28 (Sanyo Women Half 2023)
Agnes Mwikali (Kyocera) – 31:06.89 (10000 m) – debut
Tabitha Njeri (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) – 31:17.40 (10000 m) – debut
10 km
Naomi Muthoni (Univ. Ent.) – 31:15 (Sanyo Women 10 km 2021)
Janet Nyiva (Panasonic) – 31:16.01 (10000 m)
Kaede Kawamura (Iwatani Sangyo) – 31:54.73 (10000 m)
Martha Mokaya (Canon) – 32:07.68 (10000 m)
Sakiho Tsutsui (Univ. Ent.) – 32:25.92 (10000 m)
Ayari Harada (Daiichi Seimei) – 32:39.71 (10000 m)
Kanako Takemoto (Daihatsu) – 32:43.20 (10000 m)
Miu Yagi (Iwatani Sangyo) – 32:44.62 (10000 m)
Mitsu Ozaki (Sysmex) – 32:52 (Nat’l Company 10 km 2024)
Susan Kamotho (Yamada Holdings) – 14:59.63 (5000 m) – debut
Deborah Chemutai (Univ. Ent.) – 15:47.32 – debut
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