Sunday, January 30, 2011

Yukiko Akaba wins the 30th Osaka Women’s Marathon

IAAF reports
Surging away from Mai Ito just before the 39th kilometre, Yukiko Akaba won the 30th Osaka Women’s Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, clocking 2:26:29 on Sunday (30).

The times were slow due to strong winds that shifted into headwinds in the last half. Thus Akaba, although she won the race, half of the requirement for making the Japanese squad for the World Championships, she was unable to crack 2:26, the other requirement to punch her ticket to Daegu. However, Keisuke Sawaki of the JAAF was quite impressed with Akaba’s performance, thus barring the emergence of a couple unexpected runners running very fast in either Yokohama and Nagoya, Akaba is likely to make the team.

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