Nagoya Girls’s Marathon Elite Area

The Mar. 9 Nagoya Girls’s Marathon is the final huge elite marathon on Japan’s winter schedule, this 12 months with a trio of sub-2:20 runners up entrance, Sheila Chepkirui, Aga Ruti and Hitomi Niiya. It being a house soil World Championships choice cycle there’s respectable depth behind them, and a couple of:21 runner Rika Kaseda appears to be like particularly on her recreation proper now with a 1:07:53 PB on the Marugame Half earlier this month. Australian Isobel Batt-Doyle can also be trending in the proper path, having run 2:22:59 in her final go in Valencia in December.

The debut checklist is fairly fascinating, with women-only half marathon NR holder Rino Goshima, 1:08:03, making her debut, as are 1:09:01 Australian Leanne Pompeani and observe runner Yuna Wada. 2018 World Half Marathon silver medalist Pauline Kamulu is not technically debuting, having run 2:31:04 eventually summer season’s scorching and humid Hokkaido Marathon, however with a 1:07:33 in Marugame forward of Kaseda she has numerous potential to go 10 minutes or extra higher.

Nagoya Girls’s Marathon Elite Area Highlights

Nagoya, Aichi, 9 Mar. 2025

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Sheila Chepkirui (Kenya) – 2:17:29 (Valencia 2022)

Aga Ruti (Ethiopia) – 2:18:09 (Dongying 2023)

Hitomi Niiya (Japan/Sekisui Kagaku) – 2:19:24 (Houston 2023)

Eunice Chumba (Bahrain) – 2:20:02 (Seoul 2022)

Rika Kaseda (Japan/Daihatsu) – 2:21:55 (Berlin 2022)

Sayaka Sato (Japan/Sekisui Kagaku) – 2:22:13 (Berlin 2022)

Isobel Batt-Doyle (Australia) – 2:22:59 (Valencia 2024)

Natasha Wodak (Canada) – 2:23:12 (Berlin 2022)

Mao Uesugi (Japan/Tokyo Metro) – 2:24:16 (Nagoya 2023)

Yuki Nakamura (Japan/Panasonic) – 2:24:22 (Gold Coast 2024)

Yumi Yoshikawa (Japan/Chiba T&F Assoc.) – 2:25:20 (Osaka Girls’s 2023)

Kaede Kawamura (Japan/Iwatani Sangyo) – 2:25:44 (Osaka 2024)

Yuyu Xia (China) – 2:25:45 (Nagoya 2024)

Fabienne Konigstein (Germany) – 2:25:48 (Hamburg 2023)

Li Bai (China) – 2:26:33 (Wuxi 2023)

Cuomu Ciren (China) – 2:26:47 (Hengshui 2024)

Sakiho Tsutsui (Japan/Univ. Ent.) – 2:26:51 (Rotterdam 2024)

Natsuki Omori (Japan/Daihatsu) – 2:26:54 (Nagoya 2024)

Reia Iwade (Japan/Denso) – 2:27:03 (Nagoya 2022)

Dan Li (China) – 2:27:32 (Wuxi 2024)

Kaede Takeyama (Japan/Senko) – 2:29:20 (Osaka Girls’s 2023)

Yuri Mitsune (Japan/18 Ginko) – 2:29:49 (Nagoya 2024)

Pauline Kamulu (Kenya/Route Inn Motels) – 2:31:04 (Hokkaido 2024)

Ayumi Morita (Japan/Tokyo Metro) – 2:31:38 (Tokyo 2024)

Debut

Rino Goshima (Japan/Shiseido) – 1:08:03 (Nationwide Company Half 2022)

Leanne Pompeani (Australia) – 1:09:01 (Melbourne 2024)

Yuna Wada (Japan/Japan Put up) – 32:49.59 (Nationwide Championships 10000 m 2023)