Reiko Tosa
Reiko Tosa ( Japanese 土 佐 礼 子 Tosa Reiko ; born June 11, 1976 in Matsuyama ) is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon .
In 1999 she was fifth at the World Half Marathon Championships in her personal best of 1:09:36 h. In 2000 she finished second in both the Nagoya Marathon and the Tokyo International Women's Marathon .
In the marathon of the World Athletics Championships 2001 in Edmonton, she took silver behind Lidia Șimon (ROM) and ahead of Svetlana Sakharova (RUS).
In 2002 she set her personal best of 2:22:46 h as fourth in the London Marathon . In the marathon of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, for which she had qualified with a win at the Nagoya Marathon that year, she was fifth.
In 2006 she finished third in the Boston Marathon and won the Tokyo International Women's Marathon. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka she won bronze third behind Catherine Ndereba (Kenya) and Zhou Chunxiu (China).
Reiko Tosa is 1.65 m tall and has a competition weight of 51 kg. She starts for the team at the insurance company Mitsui Sumitomo .
Web links
- Reiko Tosa in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr (French)
- Athletes portrait on the website of the World Marathon Majors (English)
- She was fighting to uphill battle , article about Tosa Boston Marathon 2006 Boston Globe (English)
- Report on her victory in Tokyo in 2006 ( Memento of 23 November 2006 at the Internet Archive ) on the website of the IAAF (English)
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| SURNAME | Tosa, Reiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 土 佐 礼 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Matsuyama |