Osaka Women's Marathon

Osaka Kokusai Joshi Marason
venue	Osaka Japan
First run	1982
Records
distance	42.195 kilometers
track record	2:21:18 h (2003) Mizuki Noguchi
Website	Official website

Nagai Stadium 2011

The start of the 2011 marathon

The Osaka Women's Marathon ( Japanese 大阪 国際 女子 マ ラ ソ ン Ōsaka Kokusai Joshi Marason, German International Women's Marathon Osaka ) is a marathon for the female running elite that has been held in Osaka since 1982 in January .

The start and finish is the Nagai Stadium . After the runners have left the stadium, the first kilometers are through Nagei Park. The course then runs north to Osaka Castle and from there west, past Osaka Pref. Office, the Osaka Tenman-gū and the Osaka City Office. From here in a southerly direction to the turning mark and then on the same route back to the stadium.

In 1995 the race was canceled due to the Kobe earthquake . From 2013 to 2015 Tetjana Hamera-Schmyrko won three times in a row . Because of doping , however, their victories were subsequently revoked.

statistics

track record

• 2:21:18 h, Mizuki Noguchi ( JPN ), 2003

List of winners

Numbers after the name indicate the number of wins to date.

date	Winner	Time (h)
Jan. 26, 2020	Mizuki Matsuda -2-	2:21:47
Jan. 27, 2019	Fatuma Sado ( ETH )	2:25:39
Jan. 28, 2018	Mizuki Matsuda ( JPN )	2:22:44
Jan. 29, 2017	Risa Shigetomo -2-	2:24:22
Jan. 31, 2016	Kayoko Fukushi -2-	2:22:17
Jan. 25, 2015	Jeļena Prokopčuka -2-	2:24:07
Jan. 26, 2014	Yukiko Akaba -2-	2:26:00
Jan. 27, 2013	Kayoko Fukushi ( JPN )	2:24:21
Jan. 29, 2012	Risa Shigetomo ( JPN )	2:23:23
Jan. 30, 2011	Yukiko Akaba ( JPN )	2:26:29
Jan. 31, 2010	Amane Gobena ( ETH )	2:25:14
Jan 25, 2009	Yōko Shibui -2-	2:23:42
Jan. 27, 2008	Mara Yamauchi ( GBR )	2:25:10
Jan. 28, 2007	Yumiko Hara ( JPN )	2:23:48
Jan. 29, 2006	Catherine Ndereba ( KEN )	2:25:05
Jan. 30, 2005	Jeļena Prokopčuka ( LAT )	2:22:56
Jan. 25, 2004	Naoko Sakamoto ( JPN )	2:25:29
Jan. 26, 2003	Mizuki Noguchi ( JPN )	2:21:18
Jan. 27, 2002	Lornah Kiplagat ( KEN )	2:23:55
Jan. 28, 2001	Yōko Shibui ( JPN )	2:23:11
Jan. 30, 2000	Lidia Simon -3-	2:22:54
Jan. 31, 1999	Lidia Simon -2-	2:23:24
Jan 25, 1998	Lidia Șimon ( ROM )	2:28:31
Jan. 26, 1997	Katrin Dörre-Heinig -4-	2:25:57
Jan. 28, 1996	Katrin Dörre-Heinig -3-	2:26:04
Jan. 29, 1995	Event canceled
Jan. 30, 1994	Tomoe Abe ( JPN )	2:26:09
Jan. 31, 1993	Junko Asari ( JPN )	2:26:26
Jan. 26, 1992	Yumi Kokamo ( JPN )	2:26:26
Jan. 27, 1991	Katrin Dörre -2-	2:27:43
Jan. 28, 1990	Rosa Mota ( POR )	2:27:47
Jan. 29, 1989	Lorraine Moller -3-	2:30:21
Jan. 31, 1988	Lisa Martin-Ondieki ( AUS )	2:23:51
Jan 25, 1987	Lorraine Moller -2-	2:30:40
Jan. 26, 1986	Lorraine Moller ( NZL )	2:30:24
Jan. 27, 1985	Carey May -2-	2:28:07
Jan. 29, 1984	Katrin Dörre ( GER )	2:31:41
Jan. 30, 1983	Carey May ( IRL )	2:29:23
Jan. 24, 1982	Rita Marchisio ( ITA )	2:32:55

See also

• Tokyo International Women's Marathon and Nagoya Marathon , two other elite races for women in Japan
• List of marathons

Web links

Commons : Osaka Women's Marathon  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Official website (Japanese) & (English)
• Osaka Marathon on arrs.run (Eng.)
• Osaka Marathon on marathoninfo.free.fr (French)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Olympic marathoner Shmyrko banned for doping in Ukraine ap.org