Looking to end her season on a high, she returned to Brasov – this time as the pre-race favourite rather than a pacemaker. Determined from the start, the clock was her only challenger by 5km, which she passed running solo in 14:25 to set her first women-only world record* of the day.
As well as being the fastest women-only 10km, Ngetich’s time is the third-quickest by a woman in history, behind only the 29:14 run by Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw in a mixed race in Castellon last year and the 29:19 Yehualaw clocked in Valencia earlier this year.
On Asahi Kasei's social media Iwai commented, "I'm very pleased and humbled to have the chance to come back to the world of athletics. I will continue to support Asahi Kasei wholeheartedly and ask you to do the same."
Furukawa knows people who chose to go to athletically competitive schools in the Kanto Region because they wanted to run Hakone. "If they eliminate the select team then it seems like that will become a decision involving your entire future career path," says Furukawa
In the men’s race, Weir showed his class on the roads as he outsprinted world medallist Danny Sidbury (Christine Parsloe, Sutton & District) and JohnBoy Smith (Christine Parsloe, Sutton & District) to take the win at the Big Half.
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