Risa Takenaka

Risa Takenaka ( Japanese 竹 中 理 沙 , Takenaka Risa ; born January 6, 1990 ) is a Japanese long-distance runner .

She has been working for Shiseido since 2012 as a member of the running club.

At the 2014 Half Marathon World Championships in Copenhagen , she won bronze in the relay .

On June 5, 2015, she won the Gold Coast Marathon in the second fastest time in this run in 2:28:25 hours.

Personal bests

• 1500 m : 4: 20.57 min, August 3, 2006, Osaka
• 5000 m : 15: 31.12 min, October 1st, 2010, Chiba
• 10,000 m : 32: 07.08 min, July 6, 2014, Abashiri
• 10K road run : 32:38 min, December 23, 2013, Okayama
• Half marathon : 1:10:10 h, February 16, 2014, Yamaguchi
• Marathon : 2: 28: 09h, March 8, 2015, Nagoya

Web links

• Risa Takenaka in the database of World Athletics (English)
• arrs.run

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 竹 中 理 沙 . (No longer available online.) Shiseido, archived from the original on February 3, 2018 ; Retrieved November 21, 2015 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Kenyan barber trims plenty off the Gold Coast Airport Marathon record. July 15, 2015, accessed November 9, 2015 .