I picked Yukiko Akaba for the win. Can Akaba set a Japanese record of 1:07:26 but that's unlikely. Mizuki Noguchi been out of half marathon for 3 plus years, over 1000 days. What times will NOguchi run? Probably 1:13:00 but that's not a good time.
I picked Yukiko Akaba for the win. Can Akaba set a Japanese record of 1:07:26 but that's unlikely. Mizuki Noguchi been out of half marathon for 3 plus years, over 1000 days. What times will NOguchi run? Probably 1:13:00 but that's not a good time.
Yay the elite field for Osaka.
Mizuki Noguchi (Team Sysmex) - 2:19:12 (Berlin '05)
Constantina Dita (Romania) - 2:21:30 (Chicago '05)
Naoko Sakamoto (Team Tenmaya) - 2:21:51 (Osaka Int'l '03)
Kayoko Fukushi (Team Wacoal) - 2:24:38 (Chicago '11)
Kiyoko Shimahara (Second Wind AC) - 2:25:10 (Hokkaido '09)
Lidiya Grigoryeva (Russia) - 2:25:10 (Los Angeles '06)
Azusa Nojiri (Team Daiichi Seimei) - 2:25:29 (London '11)
Mihaela Botezan (Romania) - 2:25:32 (London '03)
Chika Horie (Team Univ. Ent.) - 2:26:11 (Hokkaido '02)
Madoka Ogi (Team Juhachi Ginko) - 2:26:55 (Osaka Int'l 08)
Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko (Ukraine) - 2:28:14 (Krakow '11)
Risa Shigetomo (Team Tenmaya) - 2:31:28 (London '11)
Irene Kemunto Mogaka (Kenya) - 1:11:38 (Berlin Half '10)
But are the rest of them saving themselves for Nagoya.
In 08 only Yurika Nakamura got selected in Nagoya. It's better to run Osaka instead.
Didn't lots of Japanese People retire cause they can't make the Daegu team? I think Yuri Kano Noriko Matsuoka Mizuho retire.
Why does Yuri Kano think she'll make the olympic team? Kano ran 3rd place 2:26:39 Nagoya 2008 and didn't got selected. She thinks it's right to not run any marathons after a 2:36:40 run at the asian games. I hope she finished dead last in Sanyo.
Don't even think about making the olympic team if you didn't do it in 2008. Just watch Yuri Kano will run Nagoya and run 2:36:00 outside the top 10 and won't make the team. Betting is so predictable. If it was real I could make 100000 dollars. I bet 100,000 that Kano won't make olympic team.
fukushi will win.
Akaba Sets Course Record at Sanyo Women's Half Marathon, Noguchi 5th
by Brett Larner
Daegu World Championships marathon 5th-place finisher Yukiko Akaba (Team Hokuren) ran an aggressive race Dec. 23 at the 30th Sanyo Women's Road Race half marathon, winning in a 1:09:16 record for the hilly course over a tough field including marathon national record holder Mizuki Noguchi (Team Sysmex).
Akaba, Noguchi, 2010's top female Japanese half marathoner Yoko Miyauchi (Team Kyocera), last year's Sanyo 10 km division winner Kenyan Sally Chepyego (Team Kyudenko), and Akaba's Daegu teammate Mai Ito (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) took the race out at course record pace. The pack ran the early stages fast enough that Noguchi, running as a test for her comeback at next month's Osaka International Women's Marathon, lost touch after only 7 km. The lead four hit 10 km in 32:46, on track for a 1:09:07 finish, before Akaba surged away to mid-68 pace and built a lead that was never cracked. Fading in the last 5 km, she nevertheless held on to take the course record by 4 seconds. "I ran this for practice, so I'm pretty happy to get the record," she said afterward.
The remaining three in the chase pack took turns trying to run Akaba down, and all three were rewarded with new PBs for their efforts. Miyauchi eventually shook Chepyego and Ito off, nearly catching Akaba and missing the old course record by only 3 seconds as she took 2nd in 1:09:23. Chepyego also cracked 70 minutes, with Ito just missing by 3 seconds. Noguchi did not appear to be in distress or pain after losing touch with the leaders, running steadily on to finish in 1:10:48 in her first half marathon since the spring of 2008. What that bodes for her Osaka match race against half marathon national record holder Kayoko Fukushi (Team Wacoal) for an Olympic team spot remains to be seen, but Noguchi's result was good enough to show that her comeback is continuing to move forward.
10 km report coming soon.
2011 Sanyo Women's Road Race
Okayama, 12/23/11
complete results coming shortly
Yuko Arimori Cup Half Marathon
1. Yukiko Akaba (Team Hokuren) - 1:09:16 - CR
2. Yoko Miyauchi (Team Kyocera) - 1:09:23 - PB
3. Sally Chepyego (Kenya/Team Kyudenko) - 1:09:58 - PB
4. Mai Ito (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 1:10:03 - PB
5. Mizuki Noguchi (Team Sysmex) - 1:10:48
Please do not copy and paste my entire articles here or elsewhere, Kevin. That's what the copyright notice that you accidentally cut out means.
Yuri Kano finished out of the top 10? I can't read japanese.
Kevin In Cal wrote:
Yuri Kano finished out of the top 10? I can't read japanese.
Kano, Urata, Kinukawa DNS.
Yuri Kano needs to retire. Kano is waiting till Nagoya to find out if she is selected. She is not going to get selected if she can't run a half marathon.
I'm so impatient with Kano for running 1 Nyc half Marathon the entire year and no marathons. Does she know she's not getting selected to London Team?