Ichiyama Runs Eighth-Quickest JPN Time Ever to Win Nationwide Company Half

Following up final weekend’s NR-breaking Marugame Half the place the highest 24 males went underneath 61 minutes, in the present day’s Nationwide Company Half Marathon delivered one other huge one. Breaking away in a dash end, Tsubasa Ichiyama (Sunbelx) took nearly a minute off his PB to win in 1:00:22, the Eighth-fastest time ever by a Japanese man. Favourite Tatsuhiko Ito (Honda) was 5 seconds behind in 2nd, with onetime chief Yuma Nishizawa (Toyota Boshoku) proper behind Ito in 1:00:29. Coming off an damage in November that held him again finally month’s New Yr Ekiden, Ichiyama instructed JRN post-race, “This was an enormous confidence builder for my subsequent race.” That may be subsequent month’s Tokyo Marathon.

Paris Olympian Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) had a characteristically good one within the girls’s 10 km, taking the win by 30 seconds in 32:33. For the primary time the Nationwide Company Championships featured a males’s 10 km, which went to Komazawa College grad Taiyo Yasuhara (Kao) in 29:08.

Nationwide Company Half Marathon and 10 km Championships

Yamaguchi, 9 Feb. 2025

Males’s Half Marathon

1. Tsubasa Ichiyama (Sunbelx) – 1:00:22 – PB

2. Tatsuhiko Ito (Honda) – 1:00:27

3. Yuma Nishizawa (Toyota Boshoku) – 1:00:29

4. Shadrack Kipchirchir (Chudenko) – 1:00:39

5. Tamaki Fujimoto (Logisteed) – 1:00:40

6. Hideyuki Tanaka (Toyota) – 1:00:43

7. Yoshiki Oshiro (Toyota Kyushu) – 1:00:43

8. Kyohei Hosoya (Kurosaki Harima) – 1:00:43

9. Hirotsugu Yoshikawa (Yakult) – 1:00:45

10. Ryuto Urushibata (Yasukawa Denki) – 1:00:47

Girls’s Half Marathon

1. Shiori Yoshizono (Tenmaya) – 1:09:45

2. Kaede Kawamura (Iwatani Sangyo) – 1:09:50

3. Kazuna Kanetomo (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) – 1:10:20

4. Yuri Mitsune (18 Ginko) – 1:10:23

5. Manami Nishiyama (Mitsui Sumitomo Kaijo) – 1:10:27

6. Akira Ozaki (Sysmex) – 1:10:49

7. Rina Shimizu (Noritz) – 1:11:14

8. Riko Iijima (SID Group) – 1:11:14

9. Wakana Itsuki (Kyudenko) – 1:11:14

10. Shiori Zama (Shimamura) – 1:11:18

Males’s 10 km

1. Taiyo Yasuhara (Kao) – 29:08

2. Sosuke Yoshimura (Aisan Kogyo) – 29:15

3. Yuta Mikami (Chugoku Denryoku) – 29:24

4. Yuya Iwasaki (Osaka Fuel) – 29:35

5. Nagisa Moriso (Chugoku Denryoku) – 29:43

Girls’s 10 km

1. Yuma Yamamoto (Sekisui Kagaku) – 32:33

2. Momoka Kawaguchi (Uniqlo) – 33:03

3. Ayu Henmi (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 33:06

4. Sara Isobe (Toyota Jidoshokki) – 33:10

5. Akari Matsumoto (Sekisui Kagaku) – 33:10

6. Momoa Yamada (Shimamura) – 33:10

7. Miu Yagi (Iwatani Sangyo) – 33:11

8. Rio Matsutani (Denso) – 33:13

9. Erina Yasui (Iwatani Sangyo) – 33:16

10. Rion Furukawa (Nitori) – 33:30