27-year-old Honan Maeda, a Tokyo Olympic girls’s marathon consultant, set a brand new Japanese report of two hours, 18 minutes, and 59 seconds on the Osaka International Women’s Marathon held in Osaka.
The earlier Japanese report was 2 hours 19 minutes 12 seconds, set by Athens Olympic gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi on the 2005 Berlin Marathon, and Maeda broke this report for the primary time in 19 years.
Women’s Marathon: Honan Maeda units new Japanese report for the primary time in 19 years | NHK
