2024 Tokyo Marathon Elite Area

Hassan is the one one of many high five-ranked girls who hasn’t run Tokyo earlier than, however that is most likely not going to present her a lot of a aggressive drawback. Budapest gold medalist Amane is her hardest competitors on paper, however whereas Wanjiru was solely sixth in Budapest the opportunity of a late-race battle between any mixture of Hassan, Amane and Wanjiru is fairly thrilling.

Tokyo does not rely in Olympic staff qualification for girls, so it is a slight shock that all-time JPN #3 Hitomi Niiya is absolutely giving up on an Olympic spot to attempt to get the NR she’s missed in two makes an attempt to this point. However in the end that is in line with her strengths. The bar’s a bit increased since Honami Maeda beat her to the punch with a 2:18:59 NR with out male pacers this previous weekend in Osaka, however whereas Niiya hasn’t run nicely since her 2:19:24 in Houston over a 12 months in the past she’s the one one on the market proper now who has/had the flexibility to raised Maeda’s time.

There is a massive hole past the highest ten girls to the next-best, 2:25:20 runner Yumi Yoshikawa, and within the subsequent tier are two girls who’re going for the Olympics, 2024 Asian marathon champion Khishigsaikhan Galbadrakh and Canadian Andrea Seccafien. Galbadrakh ran a PB of two:28:33 for 2nd in Taipei in mid-December after going out at 2:21 tempo, then gained the Asian Marathon Championships in Hong Kong final week in a 2:33:50 coaching run. Seccafien will probably be making her debut. Each will probably be concentrating on the two:26:50 Olympic normal.

Kipchoge set a course report 2:02:40 to win Tokyo in 2022, in order his first marathon since shedding his world report it is a form of secure place for him the place he can regroup and attempt to pull out one other AWMM win. His 2:02:42 win in Berlin final fall was nonetheless higher than something anybody else within the discipline has finished, and something near that may give him likelihood of the win. Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich was 31 seconds again in Berlin in 2nd, in order the #2-ranked man in Tokyo that makes for rematch. Rotterdam runner-up Timothy Kiplagat was below 2:04 there, and with Chicago 2nd-placer Benson Kipruto weighing in at 2:04:02 there’s the core of a reasonably good group to attempt to work Kipchoge over. It is a deep sufficient entrance finish that final 12 months’s champ Chalu is simply the Ninth-fastest man within the race.

Whereas the ladies solely have Nagoya left to attempt to rating the third spot on the Paris Olympic staff, males have each Osaka and Tokyo. However realistically everybody who’s severely going for it will likely be in Tokyo. That features NR holder Kengo Suzuki, who dropped out of final fall’s Olympic trials, final 12 months’s 2:05 Tokyo duo Ichitaka Yamashita and Kenya Sonota, 2023 Osaka 2:06 debutants Kazuya Nishiyama and Yohei Ikeda, 2:06:35 man Kyohei Hosoya, and 2021 Tokyo Olympian Yuma Hattori.

However that is Japan, and no one does the super-deep shinkansen-style races like they do, besides possibly Spain as of late. There are one other 28 Japanese males within the 2:06-2:09 vary, and you may anticipate nearly each single one in all them and dozens extra to go along with the tempo to hit the time wanted to steal the third spot on the Paris staff from trials Third-placer Suguru Osako, 2:05:50. One wild card is Yusuke Tamura, making a debut off a 1:00:38 half marathon finest. He is been secure as he is moved up in distance, and as a coaching accomplice of Hosoya’s below coach Akinori Shibutani there’s fairly good cause to assume he’ll deal with to leap.

The Tokyo Marathon will probably be broadcast dwell worldwide. JRN’s Brett Larner will probably be dealing with commentary for producers Nippon TV once more this 12 months. See you then.

2024 Tokyo Marathon Elite Area Highlights

instances listed are athletes’ finest in final 3 years besides the place famous

Ladies

51. Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) – 2:13:44 (Chicago 2023)

52. Amane Beriso Shankule (Ethiopia) – 2:14:58 (Valencia 2022)

53. Rosemary Wanjiru (Kenya) – 2:16:28 (Tokyo 2023)

55. Tigist Abayechew (Ethiopia) – 2:18:03 (Berlin 2022)

56. Sutume Asefa Kebede (Ethiopia) – 2:18:12 (Seoul 2022)

57. Magdalena Shauri (Tanzania) – 2:18:41 (Berlin 2023)

54. Lonah Chemtai Salpeter (Israel) – 2:18:45 (Nagoya 2022)

60. Hitomi Niiya (Japan) – 2:19:24 (Houston 2023)

58. Buzunesh Getachew (Ethiopia) – 2:19:27 (Frankfurt 2023)

59. Meseret Abebayahau (Ethiopia) – 2:19:50 (Amsterdam 2023)

61. Yumi Yoshikawa (Japan) – 2:25:20 (Osaka Ladies’s 2023)

301. Khishigsaikhan Galbadrakh (Mongolia) – 2:28:33 (Taipei 2023)

302. Shiho Kaneshige (Japan) – 2:29:26 (Tokyo 2022)

303. Misato Horie (Japan) – 2:32:10 (Osaka 2022)

304. Ai Ikemoto (Japan) – 2:34:17 (Hofu 2022)

340. Andrea Seccafien (Canada) – debut – 1:11:33 (NYC Half 2022)

Males

1. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) – 2:01:09 (Berlin 2022)

2. Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich (Kenya) – 2:03:13 (Berlin 2023)

3. Timothy Kiplagat (Kenya) – 2:03:50 (Rotterdam 2023)

4. Benson Kipruto (Kenya) – 2:04:02 (Chicago 2023)

101. Bethwel Kibet (Kenya) – 2:04:37 (Amsterdam 2023)

5. Hailemaryam Kiros (Ethiopia) – 2:04:41 (Paris 2021)

6. Andualem Belay (Ethiopia) – 2:04:44 (Berlin 2023)

7. Tsegaye Getachew (Ethiopia) – 2:04:49 (Amsterdam 2022)

8. Chalu Deso (Ethiopia) – 2:04:56 (Valencia 2022)

10. Kengo Suzuki (Japan) – 2:04:56 (Lake Biwa 2021)

102. Bazezew Asmare (Ethiopia) – 2:04:57 (Amsterdam 2022)

9. Victor Kiplangat (Uganda) – 2:05:09 (Hamburg 2022)

11. Ichitaka Yamashita (Japan) – 2:05:51 (Tokyo 2023)

12. Kenya Sonota (Japan) – 2:05:59 (Tokyo 2023)

103. Haimro Alame (Israel) – 2:06:04 (Valencia 2023)

104. Bedan Karoki (Kenya) – 2:06:15 (Tokyo 2020)

13. Kyohei Hosoya (Japan) – 2:06:35 (Lake Biwa 2021)

14. Kazuya Nishiyama (Japan) – 2:06:45 (Osaka 2023)

105. Yusuke Ogura (Japan) – 2:06:51 (Lake Biwa 2021)

15. Yohei Ikeda (Japan) – 2:06:53 (Kao 2023)

107. Michael Githae (Kenya) – 2:07:08 (Fukuoka Int’l 2023)

108. Shuho Dairokuno (Japan) – 2:07:12 (Lake Biwa 2021)

109. Simon Kariuki (Kenya) – 2:07:18 (Lake Biwa 2021)

110. Masato Kikuchi (Japan) – 2:07:20 (Lake Biwa 2021)

106. Toshiki Sadakata (Japan) – 2:07:24 (Osaka 2023)

112. Masaki Sakuda (Japan) – 2:07:42 (Lake Biwa 2021)

113. Yusuke Nishiyama (Japan) – 2:07:47 (Beppu-Oita 2022)

114. Shungo Yokota (Japan) – 2:07:47 (Beppu-Oita 2023)

115. Yuhei Urano (Japan) – 2:07:52 (Osaka 2022)

111. Shin Kimura (Japan) – 2:07:55 (Beppu-Oita 2023)

116. Yugo Kashiwa (Japan) – 2:08:11 (Osaka 2023)

117. Kenta Uchida (Japan) – 2:08:12 (Lake Biwa 2021)

118. Shunya Kikuchi (Japan) – 2:08:20 (Osaka 2023)

120. Keisuke Hayashi (Japan) – 2:08:21 (Tokyo 2022)

121. Kensuke Horio (Japan) – 2:08:25 (Tokyo 2022)

122. Yuki Nakamura (Japan) – 2:08:29 (Hofu 2022)

123. Kiyoshi Koga (Japan) – 2:08:30 (Beppu-Oita 2022)

124. Kenji Yamamoto (Japan) – 2:08:38 (Osaka 2022)

125. Naoki Aiba (Japan) – 2:08:44 (Beppu-Oita 2022)

126. Kazuma Kubo (Japan) – 2:08:48 (Tokyo 2022)

128. Takashi Ichida (Japan) – 2:08:57 (Chicago 2023)

119. Naoya Sakuda (Japan) – 2:09:06 (Beppu-Oita 2023)

127. Minato Oishi (Japan) – 2:09:08 (Fukuoka Int’l 2022)

129. Kohei Futaoka (Japan) – 2:09:14 (Fukuoka Int’l 2021)

130. Masaya Taguchi (Japan) – 2:09:27 (Tokyo 2022)

131. Kyoya Tsujino (Japan) – 2:09:39 (Osaka 2023)

132. Takamitsu Hashimoto (Japan) – 2:09:43 (Lake Biwa 2021)

133. Koki Takada (Japan) – 2:09:45 (Fukuoka Int’l 2022)

134. Yuma Hattori (Japan) – 2:09:47 (Osaka 2023)

138. Benard Kimeli (Kenya) – 2:10:50 (Berlin 2021)

149. Workneh Derese (Ethiopia) – 2:12:43 (Saga Sakura 2023)

159. Benjamin Ngandu (Kenya) – 2:14:56 (Kasumigaura 2023)

161. Daniel Muiva Kitonyi (Kenya) – 2:15:19 (Tokyo 2022)

200. Patrick Mosin (Kenya) – debut – 59:31 (Lille Half 2023)

201. Yusuke Tamura (Japan) – debut – 1:00:38 (Nat’l Corp. Half 2022)

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