Omare Breaks Marugame Half CR by >1 Minute, Etir Takes Collegiate Document

Japan-based Dolphine Nyaboke Omare (U.S.E.) had the very best race of her profession, breaking 1:04:36 runner Sheila Chepkirui (Kenya) over the second half of the race to win the Kagawa Marugame Worldwide Half Marathon in 1:06:07, 1:15 below the previous course report and a PB by a large 1:49. Omare was truly on mid-1:05 tempo at 15 km as she fought to open floor on the extra achieved Chepkirui, however although she pale during the last 5 km she nonetheless had greater than sufficient room to select up the ¥3,000,000 CR bonus.

Mutiso and Etir pushed the tempo over the second half to tug away, and within the final straight onto the monitor end Etir surged for the win, taking 16 seconds off Mekubo Mogusu‘s 2007-era collegiate report to win in 59:32 and decide up a ¥1,000,000 bonus. Mutiso was subsequent in 59:37, with Etir’s teammate Amos Bett beating Moen for third, each clocking 1:00:11. Shinohara was nicely off his goal of Japan’s first sub-60 clocking at 1:01:04, however that was nonetheless ok to take the highest Japanese spot once more this yr at eighth total.

76th Kagawa Marugame Worldwide Half Marathon

Marugame, Kagawa, 4 Feb. 2024

Ladies

1. Dolphine Nyaboke Omare (Kenya/U.S.E.) – 1:06:07 – CR, PB

2. Sheila Chepkirui (Kenya) – 1:06:47 (CR)

3. Caroline Kariba (Kenya/Kamimura Gakuen H.S.) – 1:07:36 – debut

4. Charlotte Purdue (Nice Britain) – 1:08:02 – PB

5. Ayuko Suzuki (Japan Submit) – 1:08:51

6. Mao Uesugi (Tokyo Metro) – 1:09:24

7. Sora Shinozakura (Panasonic) – 1:10:06 – debut

8. Yumi Yoshikawa (Uniqlo) – 1:11:22

9. Hikari Onishi (Japan Submit) – 1:12:38

10. Mao Kiyota (Suzuki) – 1:12:56

Males

1. Richard Etir (Kenya/Tokyo Kokusai Univ.) – 59:32 – Univ. NR

2. Alexander Mutiso (Kenya/ND Software program) – 59:37

3. Amos Bett (Kenya/Tokyo Kokusai Univ.) – 1:00:11 – debut

4. Sondre Nordstad Moen (Norway) – 1:00:11

5. Joseph Razini Lemeteki (Kenya/Yasukawa Denki) – 1:00:30

6. David Shunqeya Neiyiai (Kenya/Reitaku Univ.) – 1:00:32 – PB

7. Cleophas Kandie Meyan (Kenya/Mitsubishi Juko) – 1:00:55

8. Kotaro Shinohara (Komazawa Univ.) – 1:01:04

9. Koki Asai (Juntendo Univ.) – 1:01:09 – PB

10. Tsubasa Ichiyama (Sunbelx) – 1:01:11 – PB

11. Hideyuki Tanaka (Toyota) – 1:01:13 – PB

12. Tatsuya Maruyama (Toyota) – 1:01:13 – PB

13. Tomoya Ogikubo (Hiramatsu Byoin) – 1:01:13

14. Aoi Ito (Komazawa Univ.) – 1:01:16 – PB

15. Ryo Goda (Yasukawa Denki) – 1:01:22 – PB

16. Yusuke Tamura (Kurosaki Harima) – 1:01:25

17. Sodai Shimizu (Otsuka Seiyaku) – 1:01:26 – PB

18. Eikichi Kazaoka (JFE Metal) – 1:01:26 – PB

19. Brett Robinson (Australia) – 1:01:27

20. Hiroto Fujimagari (Toyota Boshoku) – 1:01:28 – PB

21. Joseph Muigai (Kenya/Heisei Kokusai Univ.) – 1:01:29 – PB

22. Dejen Tesfalem (Eritrea/Seisa Univ.) – 1:01:38 – PB

23. Asahi Kuroda (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:01:39 – PB

24. Taiga Tosen (Surugadai Univ.) – 1:01:40 – PB

25. Daichi Shibata (Chuo Univ.) – 1:01:41 – PB

26. Renato Ogata (Toyo Univ.) – 1:01:42 – debut

27. Kento Otsu (Sunbelx) – 1:01:43 – PB

28. Madoka Tanihara (Osaka Police) – 1:01:43 – PB

29. Masashi Nonaka (Toyota) – 1:01:43

30. Rei Yonemitsu (Konica Minolta) – 1:01:45 – PB

31. Kenshin Ebisawa (Juntendo Univ.) – 1:01:49 – PB

32. Adam Clarke (Nice Britain) – 1:01:54 – PB

33. Shuma Yamanaka (Josai Univ.) – 1:01:54 – PB

34. Shota Shiode (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:01:54 – PB

35. Chiyo Nishikawa (Daito Bunka Univ.) – 1:01:55 – PB

36. Shinichiro Nakamura (Kyudenko) – 1:01:57 – PB

37. Ryo Yoshida (Soka Univ.) – 1:01:58 – PB

38. Tim Vincent (Australia) – 1:02:01

39. Hiroto Hayashida (Mitsubishi Juko) – 1:02:04

40. Koya Suzuki (Reitaku Univ.) – 1:02:06 – PB