Mao Ichiyama, Suguru Osako clinch Japan's last Olympic marathon spots
Mao Ichiyama and Suguru Osako each secured berths at the Tokyo Games based on the results of Sunday's Nagoya Women's Marathon and Lake Biwa Marathon, the final selection races for Japan's Olympic marathon team. Ichiyama won the Nagoya Women's Marathon in a race record time ...
Macharia Ndirangu wins Lake Biwa Marathon; Shogo Nakamura leads Japanese in seventh
Shogo Nakamura led the Japanese runners in the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on Sunday, finishing in seventh place behind winner Macharia Ndirangu of Kenya. Nakamura finished the sunny Shiga Prefecture race in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 51 seconds, while Ndirangu crossed the tape with ...
Satoru Sasaki placed fourth, the highest among Japanese runners, in the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on Sunday, as Ezekiel Kiptoo Chebii of Kenya won the race. At one of the trial races for the world championships in August, a highest finish among Japanese with a ...
Ethiopia's Bazu Worku won Sunday's Lake Biwa Marathon, denying defending champion Vincent Kipruto of Kenya his second straight title. Worku clocked a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 10 seconds in Japan's oldest annual marathon, which begins and ends at Ojiyama Stadium. Satoru Sasaki was second ...
