2023 Tokyo Marathon Elite Field - A record 9 sub-2:05 men will compete

Uh Cameron Levins

Disappointing to draw none of the top ten ranked men from this site’s rankings for this major.

Tsegaye Getachew was 10th according to LRC with wins in Riyadh and Amsterdam.

Really looking forward to this race. Many great internationals and looks like the majority of top Japanese marathon athletes too. Really intrigued by the Osako | Suzuki head-to-head

The full field as shown by Japan's Brett Larner appears at the bottom of this post. A few thoughts.

1) Tokyo is projected to have 9 sub-2:05 men in it's men's field this year . No marathon in history has ever had more than 9 sub-2:05 men in history. There also were 9 sub-2:05 guys in 2021 at the Olympics and Valencia. Of course, all of the sub-9 guys in Tokyo this year have run 2:04. No one in the field has run 203, 202 or 201.

There will be 11 sub-2:06 guys and 19 sub 2:07s. The 19 sub 2:07 guys is 3rd most of any marathon in history - only surpassed by 2020 Olhmpics (24) and 2020 Valencia (23)

2) The women's field will have 6 sub-2:19 women., a feat only surpassed twice (2023 Boston and 2022 London) and equalled at the 2021 Olympics

Men
Sisay Lemma (Ethiopia) - 2:04:01 (1st, London 2021)
Bernard Koech (Kenya) - 2:04:09 (2nd, Amsterdam 2021)
Dawit Wolde (Ethiopia) - 2:04:27 (3rd, Rotterdam 2021)
Cyprian Kotut (Kenya) - 2:04:47 (1st, Hamburg 2022)
Stephen Kissa (Uganda) - 2:04:48 (2nd, Hamburg 2022)
Tsegay Getachew (Ethiopia) - 2:04:49 (1st, Amsterdam 2022)
Deso Gelmisa (Ethiopia) - 2:04:53 (6th, Valencia 2020)
Titus Kipruto (Kenya) - 2:04:54 (2nd, Amsterdam 2022)
Kengo Suzuki (Fujitsu) - 2:04:56 (1st, Lake Biwa 2021)
Mohamed Esa (Ethiopia) - 2:05:05 (5th, Amsterdam 2022)
Suguru Osako (GMO) - 2:05:29 (4th, Tokyo 2020)
Mike Kiptum Boit (Kenya) - 2:06:08 (4th, Barcelona 2022)
Brimin Misoi (Kenya) - 2:06:11 (1st, Frankfurt 2022)
Hidekazu Hijikata (Asahi Kasei) - 2:06:26 (2nd, Lake Biwa 2021)
Deme Tadu Abate (Ethiopia) - 2:06:28 (3rd, Berlin 2022)
Kyohei Hosoya (Kurosaki Harima) - 2:06:35 (3rd, Lake Biwa 2021)
Ryu Takaku (Yakult) - 2:06:45 (8th, Tokyo 2020)
Hiroto Inoue (Mitsubishi Juko) - 2:06:47 (4th, Lake Biwa 2021)
Mohamed Reda El Aaraby (Morocco) - 2:06:55 (7th, Paris 2022)
Vincent Raimoi (Kenya/Suzuki) - 2:07:01 (2nd, Fukuoka Int'l 2022)
Yuya Yoshida (GMO) - 2:07:05 (1st, Fukuoka Int'l 2020)
Cam Levins (Canada) - 2:07:09 (4th, Oregon Worlds 2022)
Kenya Sonota (JR Higashi Nihon) - 2:07:14 (7th, Berlin 2022)
Masato Kikuchi (Makes) - 2:07:20 (8th, Lake Biwa 2021)
Gaku Hoshi (Konica Minolta) - 2:07:31 (1st, Osaka 2022)
Shun Yuzawa (SGH) - 2:07:31 (8th, Tokyo 2022)
Kazuki Muramoto (Sumitomo Denko) - 2:07:36 (11th, Lake Biwa 2021)
Ichitaka Yamashita (Mitsubishi Juko) - 2:07:42 (2nd, Osaka 2022)
Yuta Shitara (Honda) - 2:07:45 (16th, Tokyo 2020)
Atsumi Ashiwa (Honda) - 2:07:54 (15th, Lake Biwa 2021)

Debut/Do-Over
Ken Nakayama (Honda) - 1:00:38 (2nd, Nat'l Corp. Half 2022)
Chikara Yamano (Komazawa Univ.) - 1:00:40 (4th, Nat'l Corp. Half 2022)
Tatsuya Oike (Toyota Boshoku) - 1:01:23 (18th, Nat'l Corp. Half 2021)
Yudai Okamoto (Sunbelx) - 27:50.64 (3rd, Hachioji Long Distance 2022)
Paul Onyiego (Kenya/FSNM) - 27:51.59 (10th, Nittai Univ. Time Trials 2021)
Yudai Shimazu (Soka Univ.) - 1:03:18 (12th, Sendai Half 2022)

Women
Ashete Bekere (Ethiopia) - 2:17:58 (2nd, Tokyo 2021)
Rosemary Wanjiru (Kenya/Starts) - 2:18:00 (2nd, Berlin 2022)
Tigist Abayechew (Ethiopia) - 2:18:03 (3rd, Berlin 2022)
Joan Chelimo Melly (Romania) - 2:18:04 (1st, Seoul 2022)
Worknesh Edesa (Ethiopia) - 2:18:51 (4th, Berlin 2022)
Tsehay Gemechu (Ethiopia) - 2:18:59 (3rd, Amsterdam 2022)
Mao Ichiyama (Shiseido) - 2:20:29 (1st, Nagoya 2020)
Mizuki Matsuda (Daihatsu) - 2:20:52 (1st, Osaka Int'l 2022)
Ai Hosoda (Edion) - 2:21:42 (9th, London 2022)
Natsumi Matsushita (Tenmaya) - 2:23:05 (3rd, Osaka Int'l 2022)
Antonina Kwambai (Kenya) - 2:23:20 (1st, Toronto Waterfront 2022)
Lisa Weightman (Australia) - 2:24:00 (15th, Berlin 2022)
Yukari Abe (Kyocera) - 2:24:02 (5th, Osaka Int'l 2022)
Lindsay Flanagan (U.S.A.) - 2:24:35 (1st, Gold Coast 2022)
Kotona Ota (Japan Post) - 2:25:56 (8th, Nagoya Women's 2022)
Natasha Cockram (Great Britain) - 2:26:14 (18th, Valencia 2022)
Hanae Tanaka (Daiichi Seimei) - 2:26:49 (5th, Nagoya Women's 2021)
Kaori Morita (Panasonic) - 2:27:38 (10th, Tokyo 2022)
Betsy Saina (U.S.A.) - 1:11:13 (4th, Tokyo Legacy Half 2022)

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Tokyo Marathon Elite Field

The Tokyo Marathon is back to holding its race in the same year as its name, and it's got pretty good fields on both the women's and men's ...

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On the negative front, I just looked it up and 2023 Tokyo will have 0 of our top 10 women's marathoners from 2022 in its field. For the men, 1 of our top 10 from 2022 is in the field - #10 Tsegay Getachew of Ethiopia who was 1st in Riyadh (2:06:27) and Amsterdam (2:04:49) last year.

sorry, doesn't seem to be on the official Tokyo pdf file with numbered athletes

Kazuki Muramoto (Sumitomo Denko) - 2:07:36 (11th, Lake Biwa 2021)

imagine running a 2:07 marathon and not even making the top 10.

Takeaway London is going to be absolutely loaded on the Women’s side - that is even if Nagoya grabs an athlete or two. Men should be decent but not great barring some high profile debuts.

Agreed, six or seven women with very fast times from 2022. Some of them debutants.

Any idea when London will announce their field? Thanks

im wondering this too...

82 days til the event, maybe next week?

Looks like something tomorrow (Tuesday)

Hellen Obiri could be fun if she is in it: huge reduction to a PB coming

Women’s field was fantastic last year, but up another notch here, I imagine

Last year had a slew of withdrawals. Hopefully who is named will run

They still had 9 sub 2.22. First tme ever, now joined by Valencia last Dec.