One other week and one other huge Japanese highway race proclaims its elite discipline. This 12 months’s
to quicker PBs. Osaka elements into males’s crew choice for this 12 months’s Tokyo World Championships, so anticipate it to go huge.
Final 12 months’s girls’s winner Waganesh Mekasha is again within the #1 spot off one other win in Toronto final fall in a PB of two:20:44, however a bunch of one other 4 Ethiopians led by Sisay Meseret Gola are all inside a couple of minute of her and will make it an in depth race. The highest non-Ethiopian within the discipline, Japan’s Mirai Waku, 2:25:58, will in all probability be racing Argentina’s Daiana Ocampo, 2:26:24, for the next-best spot on the rostrum.
Osaka Marathon Elite Subject Highlights
Osaka, 24 Feb. 2025
occasions listed are athletes’ greatest in final 3 years besides the place famous
Males
Ronald Korir (Kenya) – 2:04:22 (4th, Berlin 2023)
Bethwel Kibet (Kenya) – 2:04:37 (2nd, Amsterdam 2023)
Boniface Kimutai (Kenya) – 2:05:05 (tenth, Berlin 2023)
Kengo Suzuki (Japan/Fujitsu) – 2:05:28 (4th, Tokyo 2022)
Abdisa Tola (Ethiopia) – 2:05:42 (1st, Dubai 2023)
Derseh Kindie (Ethiopia) – 2:05:51 (twelfth, Valencia 2023)
Yihunilign Adane (Ethiopia) – 2:05:53 (1st, Barcelona 2022)
Getaneh Molla (Ethiopia) – 2:06:29 (1st, Ljubljana 2024)
Yusuke Nishiyama (Japan/Toyota) – 2:06:31 (ninth, Tokyo 2024)
Naoki Koyama (Japan/Honda) – 2:06:33 (third, Osaka 2024)
Abraraw Misganaw (Ethiopia) – 2:06:39 (fifth, Dubai 2023)
Kazuya Nishiyama (Japan/Toyota) – 2:06:45 (sixth, Osaka 2023)
Kyohei Hosoya (Japan/Kurosaki Harima) – 2:06:55 (twelfth, Tokyo 2024)
Shokhrukh Davlyatov (Uzbekistan) – 2:07:02 (18th, Valencia 2023)
Michael Githae (Kenya/Suzuki) – 2:07:08 (1st, Fukuoka Int’l 2023)
Eyob Faniel (Italy) – 2:07:09 (seventh, Sevilla 2024)
Masaki Sakuda (Japan/JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:07:49 (thirteenth, Osaka 2023)
Kento Kikutani (Japan/Toyota Boshoku) – 2:07:53 (fifth, Beppu-Oita 2023)
Yuta Koyama (Japan/Toenec) – 2:07:57 (seventeenth, Osaka 2023)
Takeru Yamaguchi (Japan/Suzuki) – 2:07:58 (18th, Osaka 2023)
Tsukasa Koyama (Japan/Subaru) – 2:08:00 (seventh, Beppu-Oita 2023)
Mizuki Higashi (Japan/Aisan Kogyo) – 2:08:03 (ninth, Osaka 2024)
Tianyu Chen (China) – 2:08:11 (seventh, Beijing 2023)
Kento Nishi (Japan/Osaka Gasoline) – 2:08:11 (nineteenth, Osaka 2023)
Yugo Kashiwa (Japan/Konica Minolta) – 2:08:11 (twentieth, Osaka 2023)
Shunya Kikuchi (Japan/Chugoku Denryoku) – 2:08:20 (twenty first, Osaka 2023)
Toshiki Sadakata (Japan/Mitsubishi Juko) – 2:08:22 (eighth, Chicago 2024)
Yuta Shimoda (Japan/GMO) – 2:08:24 (2nd, Beppu-Oita 2024)
Patrick Wambui (Kenya/NTT Nishi Nihon) – 2:08:28 (third, Fukuoka Int’l 2024)
Yuki Nakamura (Japan/Sumitomo Denko) – 2:08:29 (1st, Hofu 2022)
Kazuya Azegami (Japan/Toyota) – 2:08:29 (twenty third, Osaka 2023)
Erenjia Jia (China) – 2:08:32 (twenty fifth, Berlin 2024)
Kiyohito Akiyama (Japan/Aichi Seiko) – 2:08:43 (seventh, Fukuoka Int’l 2022)
Yuki Takei (Japan/JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:08:44 (sixteenth, Osaka 2024)
Kazuma Kubo (Japan/Nishitetsu) – 2:08:48 (twentieth, Tokyo 2022)
Shoma Yamamoto (Japan/NTT Nishi Nihon) – 2:08:52 (2nd, Hofu 2022)
Charles Muneria (Kenya) – 2:08:54 (1st, Malaga 2023)
Ben Preisner (Canada) – 2:08:58 (4th, Beppu-Oita 2024)
Olonbayar Jamsran (Mongolia) – 2:08:58 (twenty ninth, Osaka 2023)
Riki Nakanishi (Japan/Toenec) – 2:09:01 (1st, Hofu 2024)
Shoma Hosoya (Japan/Logisteed) – 2:09:05 (18th, Osaka 2024)
Masashi Nonaka (Japan/Toyota) – 2:09:11 (twentieth, Osaka 2024)
Ryo Hashimoto (Japan/Chuo Hatsujo) – 2:09:12 (third, Hofu 2022)
Reo Kuniyuki (Japan/Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:09:21 (4th, Hofu 2022)
Isaac Cheluko (Kenya) – 2:09:25 (fifth, Rome 2024)
Yota Ifuku (Japan/Waseda Univ.) – 2:09:26 (1st, Nobeoka 2024)
Jidongzhi Sang (China) – 2:09:29 (ninth, Wuxi 2024)
Benard Kimani (Kenya/Comodi Iida) – 2:09:34 (nineteenth, Tokyo 2023)
Koki Takada (Japan/Sumitomo Denko) – 2:09:45 (eleventh, Fukuoka Int’l 2022)
Junnosuke Matsuo (Japan/NTT Nishi Nihon) – 2:09:48 (twenty seventh, Tokyo 2022)
Ser-Od Bat-Ochir (Mongolia/Shin Nihon Jusetsu) – 2:10:10 (twenty sixth, Osaka 2024)
Ladies
Waganesh Mekasha (Ethiopia) – 2:20:44 (1st, Toronto 2024)
Sisay Meseret Gola (Ethiopia) – 2:20:50 (2nd, Seville 2022)
Yeshi Kalayu Chekole (Ethiopia) – 2:21:17 (third, Seville 2022)
Afera Godfay (Ethiopia) – 2:21:50 (third, Toronto 2024)
Amid Fozya Jamal (Ethiopia) – 2:21:53 (fifth, Dubai 2024)
Mirai Waku (Japan/Common Leisure) – 2:25:58 (seventh, Nagoya 2023)
Daiana Ocampo (Argentina) – 2:26:24 (seventh, Hamburg 2024)
Kuba Alemu (Ethiopia) – 2:28:48 (2nd, Fuzhou 2023)
Nanami Aoki (Japan/Iwatani Sangyo) – 2:30:01 (eighth, Osaka 2023)
Tara Palm (Australia) – 2:32:22 (twenty first, Berlin 2024)
Anna Matsuda (Japan/Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) – 2:34:33 (fifteenth, Osaka 2023)
Nera Jareb (Australia) – 2:35:00 (sixth, Gold Coast 2022)
