Great Britain’s Paula Radcliffe broke the world record twice – 2:15:25 for a mixed marathon in 2003, which remains a course record to this day. Kenya’s Mary Keitany was also a world record breaker in 2017, with a time of 2:17:01. Peres Chepchirchir took the women’s only world record in London in 202...
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Roe and Maier each win $20,000 for their victories. They will compete in the half marathon at the World Athletics Road Running Championships. The championships also include one-mile and 5K races.
Even that would come down to a judgment over the relative value of a 2:05:58 for 2nd Japanese in freezing cold conditions and a 2:06:00 for 1st Japanese in heat closer to what the conditions will be like at September's Worlds. The final decision will come after next weekend's Nagoya Women's Marathon...
A dark horse in the domestic race is 2:07 runner Tsubasa Ichiyama. Coming off an injury late last year, Ichiyama won last month’s National Corporate Half Marathon in 1:00:22, an all-time top 10 Japanese mark, in the midst of his Tokyo prep.
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