After breaking the CR with a 2:18:51 win at last year’s Osaka International Women’s Marathon, Ethiopian Workenesh Edesa was back as one of exactly 2 non-Japanese women in the elite field at this year’s race. Set up to try to get at least Paris Olympics 6th-placer Yuka Suzuki under the 2:20 barrier, Osaka went out slower than planned but still ground the field down, only Edesa, Suzuki, the
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