Olympian Honami Maeda Breaks Hakodate Half Marathon CR

On the July 3 Hakodate Half Marathon in Hakodate, Hokkaido, 30 km nationwide document holder and Tokyo Olympics marathon workforce member Honami Maeda (Tenmaya) gained in a course document 1:08:28, enhancing her PB by 40 seconds. Her Tenmaya teammate Natsumi Matsushita, already certified for the MGC 2024 Olympic marathon trials, was 2:16 behind in 2nd, with Tokyo Olympics 10000 m squad member Yuka Ando (Wacoal) 4th.

Paul Kuira (JR Higashi Nihon) gained the boys’s half marathon in 1:02:17, beating high Japanese man Shun Sadakata (Mazda) by 29 seconds. Nationwide document holder Yusuke Ogura (Yakult) was twelfth in 1:03:39, with former NR holder Yuta Shitara (Honda) twenty eighth in 1:05:48. Miharu Shimokado (S.I.D. Group) gained the accompanying full ladies’s full marathon in 2:43:16, Shintaro Miyakawa (Tokyo Police) taking the boys’s race in 2:22:25.

Hakodate Half Marathon

Hakodate, Hokkaido, 3 July 2022

Girls’s Half Marathon

1. Honami Maeda (Tenmaya) – 1:08:28 – CR, PB

2. Natsumi Matsushita (Tenmaya) – 1:10:44

3. Mirai Waku (Common) – 1:13:35

4. Yuka Ando (Wacoal) – 1:14:00

5. Chiharu Ikeda (Hitachi) – 1:14:30

6. Yuko Umeki (Takushoku Univ.) – 1:16:01

7. Yuko Kikuchi (Hokuren) – 1:16:31

8. Mayuko Ii (Takushoku Univ.) – 1:17:26

9. Rui Aoyama (Common) – 1:17:45

10. Natsumi Doi (Takushoku Univ.) – 1:20:09

Males’s Half Marathon

1. Paul Kuira (JR Higashi Nihon) – 1:02:17

2. Shun Sadakata (Mazda) – 1:02:46

3. Kazuki Muramoto (Sumitomo Denko) – 1:03:05

4. Yuichi Yasui (Toyota) – 1:03:15

5. Ryu Takaku (Yakult) – 1:03:20

6. Koshiro Hirata (SGH) – 1:03:22

7. Chihiro Miyawaki (Toyota) – 1:03:23

8. Koki Takada (Sumitomo Denko) – 1:03:28

9. Kazuya Azegami (Toyota) – 1:03:29

10. Kyosuke Hanao (Komazawa Univ.) – 1:03:29

Girls’s Marathon

1. Miharu Shimokado (S.I.D. Group) – 2:43:16

Males’s Marathon

1. Shintaro Miyakawa (Tokyo Police) – 2:22:25

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translated and edited by Brett Larner