Workenesh outran Honami Maeda final yr, each going beneath 2:19 and Workenesh getting the win in 2:18:51. She must be considered as the favourite. Saltpeter has run as quick as 2:17:45 earlier than, however she hasn’t run beneath 2:25 within the marathon or beneath 1:10 within the half marathon since 2022, so there’s not a lot cause to assume she’s going to be aggressive in a quicker race right here. Matsuda and Suzuki each ran PBs of their final marathons, Matsuda a 2:20:42 in Berlin this fall and Suzuki a 2:24:02 whereas ending sixth within the Paris Olympics. Kobayashi and Izawa are fascinating, Kobayashi having run 2:29:44 final yr as a non-track crew pupil at Waseda College after which profitable Hofu at first of December in a 2:24:59 CR, and Izawa contemporary off an amazing 1:08:25 PB on the Sanyo Girls Half Marathon this month.
forty fourth Osaka Worldwide Girls’s Marathon
Elite Area Highlights
Osaka, 26 Jan. 2025
occasions listed are athletes’ finest in final 3 years besides the place famous
Lonah Chemtai Salpeter (Israel) – 2:18:45 (Nagoya 2022)
Workenesh Edesa (Ethiopia) – 2:18:51 (Osaka Girls’s 2024)
Mizuki Matsuda (Daihatsu) – 2:20:42 (Berlin 2024)
Natsumi Matsushita (Tenmaya) – 2:23:05 (Osaka Girls’s 2022)
Yuka Suzuki (Daiichi Seimei) – 2:24:02 (Paris Olympics 2024)
Kana Kobayashi (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:24:59 (Hofu 2024)
Yumi Yoshikawa (Chiba T&F Assoc.) – 2:25:20 (Osaka Girls’s 2023)
Chiharu Suzuki (Hitachi) – 2:25:59 (Osaka Girls’s 2023)
Madoka Nakano (Iwatani Sangyo) – 2:26:50 (Osaka Girls’s 2024)
Mao Kiyota (Suzuki) – 2:29:20 (Nagoya 2023)
Ayano Ikeuchi (Denso) – 2:32:26 (Seoul 2024)
Ayano Ikemitsu (Kagoshima Ginko) – 2:33:29 (Nagoya 2023)
Debut
Nanaka Izawa (Begins) – 1:08:25 (Sanyo Half 2024)
Rio Einaga (Osaka Gakuin Univ.) – 1:11:03 (Nationwide College Half 2023)
Kurumi Yoda (Osaka Gakuin Univ.) – 1:12:46 (Kansai College Half 2024)
Nanako Miwa (Kansai Gaikokugo Univ.) – 1:14:37 (Kansai College Half 2023)
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