Nagayama and Morita Win Nagano Marathon 2025 – Weekend Road Race Roundup – Brett Larner – Japan Running News

Hiroki Nagayama (Sumitomo Denko) had a narrower win in the men’s race, running down breakaway leader Kiyohito Akiyama (Aichi Seiko) after 35 km to win 2:12:56 to 2:13:27, with last year’s winner Kento Nishi (Osaka Gas) 3rd in 2:15:48.

Elsewhere, Sachi Ito (Pacer TC) won the Kasumigaura Marathon in 2:46:38, a 45-minute improvement on her last appearance at Kasumigaura 8 years ago. Yuki Kawauchi (ANDS) won the men’s race in 2:19:10. Australian Ciaran Rushton won Kasumigaura’s 10-mile race in 49:36 by 4 seconds over Nozomi Sugaya (Komazawa Univ.), with Aya Inden (Takushoku Univ.) winning the women’s 10-miler in 59:30.

At the Shanghai Half Marathon Aoi Ota (GMO) made his corporate league debut with a 1:03:05, far off the podium in a race that saw top 3 Roncer Kipkorir, Edmond Kipngetich and Isaac Kipkemboi all finish with 8 seconds with Kipkorir getting the win in 1:01:07. Ethiopian Ftaw Zeray won the women’s race with an excellent 1:06:36 CR.

1. Ayumi Morita (Tokyo Metro) – 2:32:58

2. Chifumi Ito (MRA) – 2:37:43

3. Saki Shimada (OKB) – 2:43:04

4. Catherine Wanjiru Njunge (Kenya) – 2:45:21

5. Seika Iwamura (Y&I) – 2:48:42

6. Chika Ueno (Team FOR) – 2:52:38

7. Asami Morino (Restart) – 2:54:42

8. Asami Furuse (unattached) – 2:58:17

9. Sayaka Yasukawa (awake) – 2:59:35

10. Kaori Aman (65 Base) – 3:03:00

1. Hiroki Nagayama (Sumitomo Denko) – 2:12:56

2. Kiyohito Akiyama (Aichi Seiko) – 2:13:27

3. Kento Nishi (Osaka Gas) – 2:15:48

4. Kosuke Tsujimura (Osaka Gas) – 2:18:01

5. Ethan Shuley (U.S.A.) – 2:18:13

6. Naoto Hashimoto (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:18:34

7. Shusei Ohashi (Kodaira T&F Assoc.) – 2:18:56

8. Yuta Yoshitomi (Nishitetsu) – 2:19:33