Chesang and Kipkoech Win Sizzling Gifu Half

Sizzling situations held again quick occasions on the Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon Sunday, the place Ugandan Stella Chesang and Kenya Hillary Kipkoech took the highest spots over final 12 months’s winners Dolphine Nyaboke Omare and Amos Kurgat.

A lead males’s pack of 11 went by means of 5 km in 14:31, however by 10 km it was all the way down to Kipkoech, Kurgat, , Timothy Kiplagat, Ugandan Stephen Kissa and Japan-based Kenyans Patrick Mathenge Wambui and Anthony Maina. At 15 km in 43:40 solely Kurgat and Kipkoech had been left, and over the past 5 km Kipkoech pulled away for the win in 1:01:26. Kurgat was subsequent in 1:01:38, with Kiplagat third in 1:01:55. High Japanese honors went to Hideyuki Tanaka, sixth in 1:02:31. Paris Olympics marathon-bound Australian Brett Robinson and Canadian Rory Linkletter had been eleventh and 14th general, Robinson in 1:03:42 and Linkletter in 1:04:16.

thirteenth Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon

Gifu, 28 April 2024

Girls

1. Stella Chesang (Uganda) – 1:07:59

2. Dolphine Nyaboke Omare (Kenya/Uniqlo) – 1:08:31

3. Eunice Chebichii Chumba (Bahrain) – 1:09:10

4. Genevieve Gregson (Australia) – 1:11:39

5. Rinka Hida (Japan/Daiichi Seimei) – 1:12:06

6. Mao Kiyota (Japan/Suzuki) – 1:12:09

7. Reia Iwade (Japan/Denso) – 1:12:46

8. Kaori Morita (Japan/Panasonic) – 1:13:18

9. Sayaka Sato (Japan/Sekisui Kagaku) – 1:13:38

10. Ayaka Kato (Japan/Uniqlo) – 1:14:30

11. Ayano Ikeuchi (Denso) – 1:14:31

12. Madoka Nakano (Japan/Iwatani Sangyo) – 1:14:48

13. Erina Yasui (Japan/Iwatani Sangyo) – 1:14:54

14. Miku Hirashima (Japan/Uniqlo) – 1:15:50

15. Mirai Waku (Japan/Common Leisure) – 1:16:20

16. Erin Mawhinney (Canada) – 1:17:23

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23. Linda Janthachit (Thailand) – 1:23:17

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DNF – Hellen Ekarare (Kenya/Toyota Jidoshokki)

Males

1. Hillary Kipkoech (Kenya) – 1:01:26

2. Amos Kurgat (Kenya/Chudenko) – 1:01:38

3. Timothy Kiplagat (Kenya) – 1:01:55

4. Patrick Mathenge Wambui (Kenya/NTT Nishi Nihon) – 1:01:58

5. Anthony Maina (Kenya/Toyota Kyushu) – 1:02:29

6. Hideyuki Tanaka (Japan/Toyota) – 1:02:31

7. Benard Kimani (Kenya/Comodi Iida) – 1:02:48

8. Stephen Kissa (Uganda) – 1:03:07

9. Charles Kamau (Kenya/SG Holdings) – 1:03:25

10. Kazuto Kawabata (SG Holdings) – 1:03:26

11. Brett Robinson (Australia) – 1:03:42

12. Kazuya Azegami (Japan/Toyota) – 1:03:48

13. Kiyohito Akiyama (Japan/Aichi Seiko) – 1:04:08

14. Rory Linkletter (Canada) – 1:04:16

15. Hiromasa Kumahashi (Japan/Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) – 1:04:23

16. Shuto Mikami (Japan/SG Holdings) – 1:04:30

17. Yuma Hattori (Japan/Toyota) – 1:04:30

18. Simon Saidimu (Kenya/Chuo Hatsujo) – 1:04:39

19. Taiki Suzuki (Japan/ND Software program) – 1:05:05

20. Yuichi Yasui (Japan/Toyota) – 1:05:14

21. Tatsuya Sumide (Japan/Aichi Seiko) – 1:05:23

22. Yuta Shitara (Japan/Nishitetsu) – 1:05:25

23. Yohei Suzuki (Japan/Aisan Kogyo) – 1:05:35

24. Joel Mwaura (Kenya/Kurosaki Harima) – 1:05:44

25. Masashi Ishida (Japan/Shimamura) – 1:06:02

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35. Yuki Nakamura (Japan/Sumitomo Denko) – 1:08:11

40. Nattawut Innum (Thailand) – 1:08:43

44. Tetsuya Yoroizaka (Japan/Asahi Kasei) – 1:09:56