Kipruto, Worku and Kawauchi Headline Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon – translated and edited by Brett Larner – Japan Running News

Defending champion Vincent Kipruto (Kenya) returns, with his toughest overseas competition coming from 2:05:25 man Bazu Worku (Ethiopia). 3rd at December's Fukuoka International Marathon, Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) leads the Japanese field along with his 2011 Daegu World Championships marathon teammate Yoshinori Oda (Team Toyota).

 

 
69th Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon Field Highlights
Otsu, Shiga, Mar. 2, 2014
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Vincent Kipruto (Kenya) – 2:05:13 (Rotterdam 2010)
Bazu Worku (Ethiopia) – 2:05:25 (Berlin 2010)
Joseph Gitau (Kenya/Team JFE Steel) – 2:06:58 (Fukuoka 2012)
Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) – 2:08:14 (Seoul 2013)
James Mwangi (Kenya) – 2:08:38 (Fukuoka 2011)
Yoshinori Oda (Team Toyota) – 2:09:03 (Tokyo 2011)
Hafid Chani (Morocco) – 2:09:11 (London 2013)
Essa Ismail Rashed (Qatar) – 2:09:22 (Amsterdam 2012)
Takeshi Kumamoto (Team Toyota) – 2:10:13 (Tokyo 2012)
Hiroaki Sano (Team Honda) – 2:10:29 (Chicago 2013)
Kazuki Ikenaga (Team Konica Minolta) – 2:10:44 (Lake Biwa 2008)
Satoshi Yoshii (Team Mitsubishi Juko Nagasaki) – 2:10:45 (Lake Biwa 2011)
Ryosuke Fukuyama (Team Honda) – 2:10:59 (Lake Biwa 2013)
Takaaki Koda (Team Asahi Kasei) – 2:11:08 (Tokyo 2011)
Satoru Sasaki (Team Asahi Kasei) – 2:11:28 (Tokyo 2013)
Solonei Da Silva (Brazil) – 2:11:32 (Padova 2011)
Noritaka Fujiyama (Team Sumitomo Denko) – 2:11:34 (Lake Biwa 2013)
Naoki Okamoto (Team Chugoku Denryoku) – 2:12:31 (Lake Biwa 2012)
Kazuo Ietani (Team Sanyo Tokushu Seiko) – 2:12:37 (Tokyo Int'l 2001)
Tatsunari Hirayama (Team Yasukawa Denki) – 2:12:38 (Nobeoka 2013)
Wirimai Juwawo (Zimbabwe) – 2:12:38 (Danzhou 2010)
Yoshiki Otsuka (Team Aichi Seiko) – 2:12:51 (Beppu-Oita 2013)
Masanori Ishida (Team SGH Group Sagawa) – 2:13:07 (Beppu-Oita 2013)
Kohei Ogino (Team Fujitsu) – 2:13:12 (Hofu 2013)
Yoshihiro Yamamoto (Team Toyota Boshoku) – 2:13:22 (Lake Biwa 2013)
Raul Pacheco (Peru) – 2:13:37 (Chunchon 2010)
Takanori Ide (Team Kyudenko) – 2:13:41 (Lake Biwa 2012)
Shingo Igarashi (Team Subaru) – 2:13:46 (Nobeoka 2011)
Noriaki Takahashi (DeNA RC) – 2:14:13 (Gold Coast 2011)
Yusei Nakao (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) – 2:14:23 (Tokyo 2009)
Makoto Harada (Team JR Higashi Nihon) – 2:14:40 (Tokyo 2013)
Shigeki Tsuji (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) – 2:14:45 (Hokkaido 2013)
Shinji Suzuki (Team Aisan Kogyo) – 2:15:12 (Lake Biwa 2012)
Yasushi Yamamoto (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) – 2:15:15 (Lake Biwa 2013)
Atsushi Hasegawa (Team Subaru) – 2:15:25 (Paris 2013)

Trying to get it right
Tomohiro Tanigawa (Team Konica Minolta) – 2:16:57 (Boston 2013)
Muryo Takase (Team Nissin Shokuhin) – 2:20:49 (Lake Biwa 2012)
Hideto Takamine (Team Fujitsu) – 2:21:26 (Lake Biwa 2013)
Rui Yonezawa (Team Chugoku Denryoku) – 2:24:13 (Beppu-Oita 2013)