Currently the only Japanese athletes to have met the standards are Kiyoto Hirabayashi (Koku Gakuin Univ.) for men, and Paris Olympic team member Honami Maeda (Tenmaya), Mizuki Matsuda (Daihatsu), Yuka Ando (Wacoal), Ayuko Suzuki (Japan Post) and Rika Kaseda (Daihatsu) among women.
With his personal best of 59:17 Solomon Berihu is just two seconds slower than Istanbul’s course record, set by Kenya’s Rodgers Kwemoi two years ago in windy conditions. It remains to be seen if the 59:15 record will be challenged next month. While Berihu is the fastest on paper a fellow-Ethiopian h...
At the Tokushima Marathon, club runner Yuhi Yamashita won the men's race by almost 4 1/2 minutes in 2:17:02, the fastest Japanese men's time of the weekend, but oddly took 22 seconds to get across the starting line.
Australia’s sprinters lit up the track with a new national 4x100m record of 42.94-seconds, with the quartet of Ebony Lane (VIC, Matt Carter), Bree Masters (QLD, Ryan Hoffman), Ella Connolly (NSW, Andrew Murphy) and Torrie Lewis (QLD, Andrew Iselin) reaping the rewards of the relay program when shatt...
Kenya will defend their title in the mixed relay, for which the nation’s squad – including reserves – features Purity Chepkirui, Mirriam Cherop, Reynold Cheruiyot, Kyumbe Munguti, Virginia Nyambura and Emmanuel Wanyonyi. Hagos Gebrhiwet is entered as part of the Ethiopian squad, while the host natio...
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