Osaka Marathon Elite Field
With 3 weeks to go the elite fields for the Feb. 22 Osaka Marathon are out. Given Osaka’s history as the elite men-only Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon the women’s field is small, with only one entrant, Sinhala Kureshi, having broken 2:21 with her 2:19:53 in Hamburg last spring. Afera Godfay, Mare Dibaba and Rose Chelimo have all run 2:21 to 2:22 in recent races, and Esther Chemtai is an interesting
Jeffrey Epstein’s accountant admits to breaking rules to run NYC Marathon
According to the released Epstein emails, his longtime accountant finagled his way into the 2015 and 2016 race
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Matsuo Breaks High School Half Marathon Record in 1:02:47
At the 48th Kanagawa Half Marathon at Yokohama’s Nissin Olio Group’s Isogo Plant, Jinya Ozaki (Teikyo Univ.) outran tough competition from National University Ekiden champion Komazawa University and Hakone Ekiden winner Aoyama Gakuin University to take 1st in the men’s race in 1:02:04. AGU’s Sho Fukutomi was 2nd in 1:02:07, with Komazawa’s Rinta Muta 3rd in 1:02:08. High schooler Nichika Maeda (