elite subject is out, and it is a fairly good one. On the ladies’s facet are the final 3 winners,
and one other 6 ladies within the 2:17-2:19 vary. High Japanese draw
hopes to get into the sub-2:20 membership after a 2:20:31 PB in Berlin final fall.
The lads’s subject has 2024 CR breaker Benson Kipruto and Third-placer Vincent Ngetich, 2:02:38 man Derese Geleta, Joshua Cheptegei taking one other stab on the distance, and one other 8 on the 2:03-2:04 degree. 2:05-class Japanese males Yohei Ikeda, Ichitaka Yamashita and Kenya Sonota and Paris Olympics Sixth-placer Akira Akasaki shall be gunning for the two:04:56 NR, and there are attention-grabbing debuts from 10-mile world finest holder Benard Koech and Hakone Ekiden star Aoi Ota from 2024-2025 champ Aoyama Gakuin College.
The wheelchair race consists of WR holder Catherine Debrunner, CR holder Manuela Schar and NR holder Tsubasa Nakamine, with NR holder, Paris Paralympics bronze medalist and defending champ Tomoki Suzuki eading a males’s subject that features Paris Paralympics silver medalist Jin Hua and Paris 4th-placer Daniel Romanchuk as his hardest competitors.
Tokyo Marathon Elite Area Highlights
Tokyo, 2 Mar. 2025
occasions listed are athletes’ finest in final 3 years besides the place famous
Ladies
Sutume Asefa Kebede (Ethiopia) – 2:15:55 (1st, Tokyo 2024)
Brigid Kosgei (Kenya) – 2:16:02 (1st, Tokyo 2022)
Tigist Ketema (Ethiopia) – 2:16:07 (1st, Dubai 2024)
Rosemary Wanjiru (Kenya) – 2:16:14 (2nd, Tokyo 2024)
Hawi Feysa (Ethiopia) – 2:17:25 (1st, Frankfurt 2024)
Gotytom Gebreslase (Ethiopia) – 2:18:11 (1st, Oregon Worlds 2022)
Winfridaw Moraa Moseti (Kenya) – 2:18:25 (2nd, Hamburg 2024)
Mestawut Fikir (Ethiopia) – 2:18:48 (2nd, Berlin 2024)
Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) – 2:18:55 (Third, Berlin 2018)
Magdalyne Masai (Kenya) – 2:18:58 (2nd, Frankfurt 2024)
Degitu Azimeraw (Ethiopia) – 2:19:52 (1st, Barcelona 2024)
Ai Hosoda (Japan/Edion) – 2:20:31 (fifth, Berlin 2024)
Desi Jisa Mokonin (Bahrain) – 2:20:47 (2nd, Doha 2023)
Yuka Ando (Japan/Shimamura) – 2:21:18 (1st, Nagoya 2024)
Jessica Stenson (Australia) – 2:24:01 (4th, Daegu 2024)
Deshun Zhang (China) – 2:24:05 (4th, Nagoya 2023)
Rie Kawauchi (Japan/Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:25:35 (seventh, Osaka Ladies’s 2022)
Kaori Morita (Japan/Panasonic) – 2:26:31 (eighth, Tokyo 2023)
Khishigsaikhan Galbadrakh (Mongolia) – 2:26:32 (eighth, Tokyo 2024)
Shiho Kaneshige (Japan/GRlab Yamaguchi) – 2:29:12 (Third, Gold Coast 2022)
Males
Benson Kipruto (Kenya) – 2:02:16 (1st, Tokyo 2024)
Derese Geleta (Ethiopia) – 2:02:38 (2nd, Valencia 2024)
Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich (Kenya) – 2:03:13 (2nd, Berlin 2023)
Tadese Takele (Ethiopia) – 2:03:24 (Third, Berlin 2023)
Dawit Wolde (Ethiopia) – 2:03:48 (Third, Valencia 2023)
Birhanu Legese (Ethiopia) – 2:04:44 (Third, Amsterdam 2023)
Stephen Kissa (Uganda) – 2:04:48 (2nd, Hamburg 2022)
Tsegaye Getachew (Ethiopia) – 2:04:49 (1st, Amsterdam 2022)
Amedework Walelegn (Ethiopia) – 2:04:50 (2nd, Rotterdam 2024)
Titus Kipruto (Kenya) – 2:04:54 (2nd, Amsterdam 2022)
Leul Gebresilase (Ethiopia) – 2:04:56 (2nd, Rotterdam 2022)
Yohei Ikeda (Japan/Kao) – 2:05:12 (Sixth, Berlin 2024)
Mulugeta Asefa Uma (Ethiopia) – 2:05:33 (1st, Paris 2024)
Ichitaka Yamashita (Japan/Mitsubishi Juko) – 2:05:51 (seventh, Tokyo 2023)
Kenya Sonota (Japan/JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:05:59 (eighth, Tokyo 2023)
Suguru Osako (Japan/Nike) – 2:06:13 (ninth, Tokyo 2023)
Jie Hello (China) – 2:06:57 (4th, Wuxi 2024)
Vincent Kibor Raimoi (Kenya/Suzuki) – 2:07:01 (2nd, Fukuoka Int’l 2022)
Hiroto Inoue (Japan/Mitsubishi Juko) – 2:07:09 (tenth, Tokyo 2023)
Shaohui Yang (China) – 2:07:09 (2nd, Fukuoka Int’l 2023)
Hendrik Pfeiffer (Germany) – 2:07:14 (Third, Houston 2024)
Koki Yoshioka (Japan/Kyudenko) – 2:07:28 (eleventh, Osaka 2023)
Gaku Hoshi (Japan/JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:07:31 (1st, Osaka 2022)
Akira Akasaki (Japan/Kyudenko) – 2:07:32 (Sixth, Paris Olympics 2024)
Shin Kimura (Japan/Honda) – 2:07:34 (14th, Tokyo 2024)
Suldan Hassan (Sweden) – 2:07:36 (ninth, Sevilla 2024)
Tsubasa Ichiyama (Japan/Sunbelx) – 2:07:44 (Third, Beppu-Oita 2023)
Tatsuya Maruyama (Japan/Toyota) – 2:07:50 (eighth, Berlin 2022)
Yuhei Urano (Japan/Fujitsu) – 2:07:52 (Third, Osaka 2022)
Hidekazu Hijikata (Japan/Asahi Kasei) – 2:08:02 (eleventh, Tokyo 2022)
Xiangdong Wu (China) – 2:08:04 (tenth, Osaka 2024)
Kensuke Horio (Japan/M&A BP) – 2:08:25 (fifteenth, Tokyo 2022)
Kiyoshi Koga (Japan/Yasukawa Denki) – 2:08:30 (4th, Beppu-Oita 2022)
Kenji Yamamoto (Japan/Mazda) – 2:08:33 (18th, Tokyo 2024)
Ryoma Takeuchi (Japan/ND Software program) – 2:08:40 (Third, Hofu 2023)
Naoki Aiba (Japan/Chudenko) – 2:08:44 (fifth, Beppu-Oita 2022)
Yuichi Yasui (Japan/Toyota) – 2:08:48 (ninth, Beppu-Oita 2023)
Rintaro Takeda (Japan/Yakult) – 2:08:48 (eighth, Osaka 2022)
Ken Nakayama (Japan/Honda) – 2:08:52 (seventeenth, Osaka 2024)
Takashi Ichida (Japan/Asahi Kasei) – 2:08:57 (tenth, Chicago 2023)
Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) – 2:08:59 (thirty seventh, Valencia 2023)
Kohei Futaoka (Japan/Chudenko) – 2:09:21 (seventeenth, Tokyo 2023)
Shuho Dairokuno (Japan/Asahi Kasei) – 2:09:26 (thirty second, Osaka 2023)
Hideyuki Tanaka (Japan/Toyota) – 2:09:27 (twenty first, Osaka 2024)
Tadashi Isshiki (Japan/NTT Nishi Nihon) – 2:09:32 (eleventh, Osaka 2022)
Takayuki Iida (Japan/Fujitsu) – 2:09:34 (fifth, Prague 2023)
Yuma Morii (Japan/Kyoto T&F Assoc.) – 2:09:59 (eighth, Boston 2024)
Debut
Benard Kibet Koech (Kenya/Kyudenko) – 58:45 (1st, RAK Half 2023)
Geoffrey Toroitich (Kenya) – 59:13 (1st, Malaga Half 2023)
Ayumu Kobayashi (Japan/NTT Nishi Nihon) – 1:00:44 (tenth, Nat’l Corp. Half 2022)
Aoi Ota (Japan/Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:02:30 (eighth, Shanghai Half 2024)
Wheelchair Ladies
Catherine Debrunner (Switzerland) – 1:34:16 (1st, Berlin 2023)
Eden Rainbow-Cooper (Nice Britain) – 1:34:17 (2nd, Berlin 2023)
Manuela Schar (Switzerland) – 1:36:43 (1st, Tokyo 2023)
Wakako Tsuchida (Japan/Willraise) – 1:37:59 (1st, Oita 2022)
Madison De Rozario (Australia) – 1:44:19 (4th, Tokyo 2024)
Tsubasa Nakamine (Japan/Misato SS) – 1:44:34 (seventh, Tokyo 2024)
Susannah Scaroni (U.S.A.) – 1:48:05 (1st, New York 2024)
Zhou Zhaoqian (China) – 1:52:09 (fifth, Paris Paralympics 2024)
Wheelchair Males
Jin Hua (China) – 1:18:31 (1st, Oita 2024)
Daniel Romanchuk (U.S.A.) – 1:20:37 (2nd, Boston 2024)
Tomoki Suzuki (Japan/Toyota) – 1:23:05 (1st, Tokyo 2024)
Luo Xingchuan (China) – 1:23:49 (2nd, Chengdu 2023)
Ryota Yoshida (Japan/SUS) – 1:26:49 (4th, Oita 2023)
Sho Watanabe (Japan/Toppan) – 1:31:03 (Third, Tokyo 2024)
Kota Hokinoue (Japan/Line Yahoo) – 1:31:06 (fifth, Tokyo 2024)
Byunghoon Yoo (South Korea) – 1:38:56 (twelfth, Oita 2024)
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