Osaka Marathon Elite Area 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Yusuke Nishiyama (Japan/Toyota) – 2:06:31 (ninth, Tokyo 2024) – withdrawn
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 Fuel) – 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)
Debut/Do-Over
Ryota Kondo (Mitsubishi Juko) – 1:00:32 (third, Nationwide Company Half 2023)
Shunsuke Shikama (Logisteed) – 1:00:41 (1st, Nationwide Company Half 2024)
Koki Kamata (Yakult) – 1:00:47 (third, Nationwide Company Half 2024)
Soshi Suzuki (Yasukawa Denki) – 1:00:49 (4th, Nationwide Company Half 2024)
Ken Yokote (Fujitsu) – 1:01:18 (twenty fourth, Nationwide Company Half 2022)
Ryo Goda (Yasukawa Denki) – 1:01:22 (fifteenth, Marugame Half 2024)
Taiyo Iwasaki (JFE Metal) – 1:01:22 (sixteenth, Marugame Half 2024)
Hiroki Abe (Sumitomo Denko) – 1:01:26 (thirty third, Nationwide Company Half 2022)
Asahi Kuroda (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:01:39 (twenty third, Marugame Half 2024)
Yuma Nozawa (Soka Univ.) – 1:01:46 (tenth, Osaka Half 2024)
Kazuki Matsumura (Aichi Seiko) – 1:01:55 (twenty first, Nationwide Company Half 2023)
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)
