Mara Yamauchi

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Mara Yamauchi at the 2009 London Marathon

Mara Yamauchi (born Myers ; born August 13, 1973 in Oxford ) is a former British long-distance runner . After world record holder Paula Radcliffe, she ran the second fastest time for a British woman on the marathon route .

It is named after the Mara River in Kenya , where her parents lived a total of 25 years and she herself spent her first ten years.

She began doing serious running as a student. After completing her master's degree in political economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science , she joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1996 . In 1998 she became the English cross-country champion . In the same year she was transferred to Japan and stopped walking. In 2002 she married Shigetoshi Yamauchi from Japan.

In 2003 she returned to England and started working part-time to get back to running. In 2006, she was given unpaid leave from the Foreign Ministry to prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games and moved to Japan.

After a tenth place in the London Marathon in 2:31:52 h, she was nominated for the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, where she finished 18th. In the same year, she rose to fifth in the Tokyo International Women's Marathon to 2:27:38 h. She was even faster in the next two years in London, where she finished sixth in 2:25:13 and 2:25:41 - apart from Paula Radcliffe , the fastest times that a British runner had achieved up to then. At the Commonwealth Games in 2006 , she won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meter run in her personal best of 31: 49.40 minutes. She finished ninth in the 2007 World Cup marathon in Osaka.

Her greatest success so far is winning the 2008 Osaka Women's Marathon , where she set her personal record to 2:25:10 h. At the Olympic Games in Beijing , she finished sixth in the marathon as the best British woman in 2:27:29 h. In November, she finished third in the last Tokyo International Women's Marathon in 2:25:03 h .

In February 2009 she won the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon in a personal best of 1:08:29 h. In April, she finished second behind the German Irina Mikitenko in the London Marathon in 2:23:12 h and undercut her personal best by almost two minutes. In 2010 she won the Ōme marathon over 30 km, after winning the 10 km in 2006, 2007 and 2009. Then she set a course record of 1:09:25 in the New York City Half Marathon . In 2013 she retired from competitive sports.

Mara Yamauchi is 1.62 m tall and weighed 50 kg at competition times. It started in England for the Harrow AC and in Japan for the Second Wind AC .

Personal bests

Web links

Commons : Mara Yamauchi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Britain's Yamauchi wins Osaka Ladies Marathon in 2:25:10 ( memento from March 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). January 27, 2008
  2. ^ IAAF: Mogusu and Yamauchi triumph in Marugame Half Marathon ( Memento from November 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). February 2, 2009
  3. ↑ Japan Running News: Mara Yamauchi and Takashi Ota Win Ome 30 km Road Race . February 21, 2010
  4. ^ IAAF: Kamais and Yamauchi Triumph at NYC Half-Marathon ( Memento of March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). March 21, 2010
  5. ↑ Mara Yamauchi says goodbye www.leichtathletik.de January 23, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Yamauchi, Mara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Myers, Mara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH 13th August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford