Saturday, January 29, 2011

Osaka Women's Marathon preview

Ken Nakamura reports for IAAF
Organisers have announced that Yumiko Hara and Tomo Morimoto have pulled out of Sunday's Osaka Women's Marathon. Hara pulled her right thigh muscle, while Morimoto came down with stress fracture in left foot.

The course has been modified this year to eliminate some hills around Osaka castle. More specifically, hills around the 15Km point and multiple hills from 24Km to 27Km, which amounts to elevation gain and loss of around 20 metres each, were eliminated from the course. The new course may be half a minute faster than the old one. So, is the event record of 2:21:18 set by Mizuki Noguchi in 2003, a year before she won the Olympic Gold medal, in danger?

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