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.
forty fourth Osaka Worldwide Ladies’s Marathon
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Osaka, 26 Jan. 2025
instances listed are athletes’ greatest in final 3 years besides the place famous
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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