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2014 Tokyo Marathon

The 2014 Tokyo Marathon (Japanese: 東京マラソン 2014) was the eighth edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, Japan and was held on Sunday, 23 February. An IAAF Gold Label Road Race, it was the first World Marathon Majors event to be held that year and represented the second occasion that the Tokyo race was part of the elite-level marathon series.

8th Tokyo Marathon
Runners in the 2014 Tokyo Marathon mass race
VenueTokyo, Japan
Dates23 February
Medalists
gold medal Dickson Chumba (2:05:42 CR)
Tirfi Tsegaye (2:22:23 CR)
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Both elite race winners set new course records: Dickson Chumba ran a men's record of 2:05:42 and Tirfi Tsegaye's run of 2:22:23 was a women's record.

Pre-race build up

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Following on from the Tokyo Marathon's induction into the World Marathon Majors circuit, high calibre and international fields were invited for the men's and women's elite races. In the men's race, invitees included Tadese Tola (2013 world medallist), Abel Kirui (a two-time world champion), Peter Some (2013 Paris Marathon winner), Dickson Chumba (2013 Eindhoven Marathon winner), and former Tokyo champion Michael Kipyego. In total, seven of the invited men's field had personal bests faster than two hours and six minutes.[1] Arata Fujiwara was the most prominent domestic starter.[2]

In the women's division, Lucy Wangui Kabuu was the fastest entrant with her best of 2:19:34 hours. Second fastest was Japan's Yoko Shibui (2:19:41) although the 35-year-old was not expected to reach her past performance. A group of Ethiopian women were among the other prominent entrants, including Tirfi Tsegaye, Atsede Baysa, Birhane Dibaba and Merima Mohammed.[1][2]

Results

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Dickson Chumba of Kenya won the men's race in a course record time of 2:05:42 hours. This also made it the fastest time ever recorded in the city, bettering Gert Thys's record of 2:06:33 set at the defunct Tokyo International Marathon. In the women's race, Ethiopia's Tirfi Tsegaye topped the podium with a course record of 2:22:23 hours – an improvement of over three minutes on the previous record.[3][4] The wheelchair races had mainly domestic entrants and Hiroyuki Yamamoto and Wakako Tsuchida were the best of the men's and women's divisions, respectively.

Men

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Position Athlete Nationality Time
  Dickson Chumba   Kenya 2:05:42 CR PB
  Tadese Tola   Ethiopia 2:05:57
  Sammy Kitwara   Kenya 2:06:30
4 Michael Kipyego   Kenya 2:06:58
5 Peter Kimeli Some   Kenya 2:07:05
6 Geoffrey Kipsang   Kenya 2:07:37
7 Deressa Chimsa   Ethiopia 2:07:40
8 Kohei Matsumura   Japan 2:08:09 PB
9 Koji Kobayashi   Japan 2:08:51 PB
10 Abel Kirui   Kenya 2:09:04
11 Hirokatsu Kurosaki   Japan 2:09:07 PB
12 Masanori Sakai   Japan 2:09:10 PB
Other notable performers

Women

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Position Athlete Nationality Time
  Tirfi Tsegaye   Ethiopia 2:22:23 CR
  Birhane Dibaba   Ethiopia 2:22:30 PB
  Lucy Wangui Kabuu   Kenya 2:24:16
4 Caroline Rotich   Kenya 2:24:35
5 Janet Rono   Kenya 2:26:03 PB
6 Albina Mayorova   Russia 2:28:18
7 Mai Ito   Japan 2:28:36
8 Rika Shintaku   Japan 2:31:15 PB
9 Manami Kamitanida   Japan 2:31:34 PB
10 Hiroko Yoshitomi   Japan 2:32:38
11 Azusa Nojiri   Japan 2:33:39
12 Atsede Baysa   Ethiopia 2:35:03
Other notable performers

Wheelchair men

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Competitors in the women's wheelchair marathon race
Position Athlete Nationality Time
  Hiroyuki Yamamoto   Japan 1:30:43
  Soejima Masazumi   Japan 1:30:44
  Horano-jo Kota   Japan 1:34:45

Wheelchair women

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Position Athlete Nationality Time
  Wakako Tsuchida   Japan 1:48:08
  Kazumi Nakayama   Japan 2:04:05
  Koki Mizuki   Japan 2:07:35

References

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  1. ^ a b Minshull, Phil (2014-01-23). 2014 Tokyo Marathon releases elite fields, course records under threat. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-03-24.
  2. ^ a b Nakamura, Ken (2014-02-21). Course records expected at Tokyo Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-03-24.
  3. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2014-02-23). Chumba and Tsegaye break course records at Tokyo Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-03-24.
  4. ^ Larner, Brett (2014-02-23). Chumba and Tsegaye Set Tokyo Marathon CRs as Five Japanese Men Break 2:10. Japanese Running News. Retrieved on 2014-03-24.
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