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Scratches Introduced from Sunday’s Osaka Worldwide Ladies’s Marathon

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Two days out from the Jan. 26 Osaka Worldwide Ladies’s Marathon a couple of scratches have been introduced close to the underside of the very brief entry record. Out with harm is 2:26:50 runner Madoka Nakano, together with two collegiate runners who had been set to make their debuts, Rio Einaga and Nanako Miwa.
That is not going to impression the race up entrance, however it does make what’s already a really small race for one thing with World Athletics platinum label standing even smaller. There’s final yr’s winner Workenesh Edesa, Third-placer Mizuki Matsuda, Seventh-placer Natsumi Matsushita and Twelfth-placer Kana Kobayashi, high Japanese Paris Olympic marathon placer Yuka Suzuki, veteran Kenyan-born Israeli Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, the debuting Nanaka Izawa, and that is about it. It is an important probability to attain some rankings factors, and for the house staff to attempt to get an edge up on Tokyo World Championships choice.

Workenesh outran Honami Maeda final yr, each going underneath 2:19 and Workenesh getting the win in 2:18:51. She needs to be considered as the favourite. Salpeter has run as quick as 2:17:45 earlier than, however she hasn’t run underneath 2:25 within the marathon or underneath 1:10 within the half marathon since 2022, so there’s not a lot motive to assume she’s going to be aggressive in a sooner race right here. Matsuda and Suzuki each ran PBs of their final marathons, Matsuda a 2:20:42 in Berlin this fall and Suzuki a 2:24:02 whereas ending sixth within the Paris Olympics. Kobayashi and Izawa are fascinating, Kobayashi having run 2:29:44 final yr as a non-track staff pupil at Waseda College after which profitable Hofu at the start of December in a 2:24:59 CR, and Izawa contemporary off an important 1:08:25 PB on the Sanyo Women Half Marathon this month.

Fuji TV will likely be broadcasting the race reside beginning at midday native time, with official streaming on TVer. Stay splits and outcomes are right here.
The Osaka Half Marathon can also be occurring in parallel with the marathon, and the fields there are decently aggressive as at all times. Yuka Ando received the ladies’s race in Osaka final yr in a 1:08:18 PB and is again this time, going through sub-70 runner Sakiho Tsutsui, Mongolian NR holder Khishigsaikhan Galbadrakh and extra. 1:00:41 Ethiopian Gebrie Erikhun leads a home males’s discipline that features Japan-based Patrick Mathenge Wambui and 1,000,000 61-minute Japanese males. Streaming begins at 12:00 native time Sunday.

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Osaka, 26 Jan. 2025

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Lonah Chemtai Salpeter (Israel) – 2:18:45 (Nagoya 2022)

Workenesh Edesa (Ethiopia) – 2:18:51 (Osaka Ladies’s 2024)

Mizuki Matsuda (Daihatsu) – 2:20:42 (Berlin 2024)

Natsumi Matsushita (Tenmaya) – 2:23:05 (Osaka Ladies’s 2022)

Yuka Suzuki (Daiichi Seimei) – 2:24:02 (Paris Olympics 2024)

Kana Kobayashi (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:24:59 (Hofu 2024)

Yumi Yoshikawa (Chiba T&F Assoc.) – 2:25:20 (Osaka Ladies’s 2023)

Chiharu Suzuki (Hitachi) – 2:25:59 (Osaka Ladies’s 2023)

Madoka Nakano (Iwatani Sangyo) – 2:26:50 (Osaka Ladies’s 2024) – scratch

Mao Kiyota (Suzuki) – 2:29:20 (Nagoya 2023)

Ayano Ikeuchi (Denso) – 2:32:26 (Seoul 2024)

Ayano Ikemitsu (Kagoshima Ginko) – 2:33:29 (Nagoya 2023)

Debut

Nanaka Izawa (Begins) – 1:08:25 (Sanyo Half 2024)

Rio Einaga (Osaka Gakuin Univ.) – 1:11:03 (Nationwide College Half 2023) – scratch

Kurumi Yoda (Osaka Gakuin Univ.) – 1:12:46 (Kansai College Half 2024)

Nanako Miwa (Kansai Gaikokugo Univ.) – 1:14:37 (Kansai College Half 2023) – scratch

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