The ladies’s area is thinner, however 2018 World Half Marathon Championships bronze medalist Pauline Kamulu is on the listing to make her debut. If she’s for actual no person else within the area can contact her. If not, it will in all probability be a head-to-head between the one sub-2:30 girl within the race, Yuri Mitsune, and Nanami Aoki, 2:30:01 on Osaka final yr. Shiho Tachizako is one other high-potential first-timer from the Tenmaya company staff, coming in off a 1:11:16 at February’s Nationwide Company Half Marathon. Occasions listed are athletes’ greatest in final 3 years besides the place famous.
Males
Kiyoto Hirabayashi (Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 2:06:18 (1st, Osaka 2024)
Derese Workneh (Hiramatsu Byoin) – 2:07:58 (1st, Beppu-Oita 2024)
Yuki Nakamura (Sumitomo Denko) – 2:08:29 (1st, Beppu-Oita 2022)
Atsumi Ashiwa (Honda) – 2:08:37 (2nd, Beppu-Oita 2023)
Yuma Morii (Kyoto T&F Assoc.) – 2:09:59 (eighth, Boston 2024)
Masaru Aoki (Kao) – 2:10:01 (fifteenth, Osaka 2022)
Shogo Kanezane (Chugoku Denryoku) – 2:10:02 (ninth, Beppu-Oita 2022)
Chihiro Ono (GMO) – 2:10:15 (thirty sixth, Osaka 2023)
Ren Umezaki (Toyo Univ.) – 2:10:19 (2nd, Nobeoka 2024)
Hiromasa Kumahashi (Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) – 2:10:38 (twenty fifth, Tokyo 2024)
Daisuke Hosomori (YKK) – 2:10:40 (twenty eighth, Osaka 2024)
Takashi Soma (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:10:46 (third, Nobeoka 2024)
Luka Musembi (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) – 2:10:49 (1st, Hokkaido 2022)
Haruka Kawamura (SDF Academy) – 2:10:57 (seventh, Hofu 2023)
Shogo Nakamura (Fujitsu) – 2:12:10 (thirty sixth, Tokyo 2023)
Kazuki Matsuyama (Toyo Univ.) – debut – 1:00:43 (Company Half 2022)
Ladies
Yuri Mitsune (18 Ginko) – 2:29:49 (thirteenth, Nagoya 2024)
Nanami Aoki (Iwatani Sangyo) – 2:30:01 (eighth, Osaka 2023)
Yuko Kikuchi (Shimamura) – 2:32:08 (twenty third, Nagoya 2022)
Ayano Ikeuchi (Denso) – 2:32:26 (eleventh, Seoul 2024)
Ai Ikemoto (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) – 2:34:17 (third, Hofu 2022)
Asuka Yamamoto (Common Ent.) – 2:34:36 (ninth, Osaka 2024)
Tomomi Sawahata (Sawahatters) – 2:34:46 (twenty seventh, Nagoya 2022)
Pauline Kamulu Kaveke (Route Inn Accommodations) – debut – 1:07:22 (Marugame Half 2023)
Shiho Tachizako (Tenmaya) – debut – 1:11:16 (Company Half 2024)
