The largest women’s race in the world begins in March with elite competitors

He Nagoya Women’s Marathon presented the list of the best athletes in the world who will compete in the 12th edition of the race which will take place on Sunday 12 March 2023.

In the elite field, the main star will be the defending champion Ruth Chepngetic From Kenya, which finished second in the fastest women’s marathon in history, developed in a time of 2:14:18, during October last year in Chicago. In 2022, the African had recorded a time of 2:17:18 inches Nagoyawhere she became the first female athlete to win the biggest prize in the world in this specialty.

Other figures will be Nancy Jelagat Metoalso of Kenya, who holds his personal best in under 2 hours and 20 minutes; Bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic marathon, Molly Seidel From United States of Americaand many others who have achieved outstanding performances in international competitions in representation Australia, Germany, China, Puerto Rico and South Korea.

Local athletes joining the competition will be mentored by Olympic representatives from Tokyo in the women’s marathon Ayuko Suzuki and Honami Maedaas well as Mao Uesugi and Mizuki Tanimotowho renewed their personal bests at the 2022 Osaka Women’s Marathon. In addition, she will participate Yuka Suzukiwhich set the new record among Japanese students of 2:25:02 in Nagoya, last year. And there will be many more top-performing competitors, including Chiharu Ikeda, Mirai Waku and Ayano Ikemitsuwho will challenge the best runners in the world.

As well as being the largest women’s marathon in the world and the only road race with the Platinum label by World Athletics exclusively for women, since last year, the Nagoya Women’s Marathon became the event with the largest prize in the world in its specialty: $250,000. All finalists will receive an exclusively designed Tiffany & Co. pendant. The 2023 race will be held fully open to domestic and international runners for the first time in three years after the Japanese government lifted border restrictions related to Covid-19.

He Nagoya Women’s Marathon is the largest women’s marathon in the world, certified by Guinness World Record. It was launched on March 11, 2012, with 13,114 participants, reformed from the Women’s International Marathon of Nagoyathe elite women’s race known as the qualifying event that has sent many Japanese female athletes to international competition, including two Olympic gold medals, Naoko Takahashi and Mizuki Noguchi. The event is usually attended by 22,000 women.

For playing an important role in increasing the population of female runners in Japan, the race was awarded the International Olympic Committee’s Women’s and Sport’s Diploma in 2019, after receiving the Committee’s Women’s and Sport’s Award Japanese Olympic in 2017.