The Tokyo Olympics, track and field, and women's marathon started at 6 am.
The Japanese national team is Honami Maeda, Ayuko Suzuki, and Mao Ichiyama.
We will keep you updated on the progress of the race.
[Race progress]
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Honami Maeda of Japan jumped out in front of the group
2 km before
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1 km point.
Honami Maeda pulled the group in the lead and passed at a slow pace of 3 minutes 39 seconds.
Ayuko Suzuki and Mao Ichiyama will also run in the group.
<Start> The
race
started
at 6 am.
The weather conditions before the race were 25.7 degrees Celsius.
Humidity is 80%.
(* The women's marathon started at 6 am, one hour ahead of schedule due to heat measures.)
[Attention here]
The women's marathon is held on a course that departs from and arrives at Sapporo Odori Park in the center of Sapporo.
From Japan, Honami Maeda and Ayuko Suzuki, who were selected as representatives of the 2019 Marathon Grand Championship, and last year's Nagoya Women's Marathon, set the fourth fastest time in Japan. Three of Mao Ichiyama's (Ichiyama and Mao) will participate.
The venue was relocated from Tokyo to Sapporo at the suggestion of the IOC = International Olympic Committee as a measure against the heat wave, but the maximum daytime temperature in Sapporo is expected to exceed 30 degrees Celsius, and measures against the heat are the key. that's right.
The course in Sapporo is flat unlike the course in Tokyo where there was an uphill at the end, and the first lap is a large loop of 20 km, and the second and third laps are anomalous loops of 10 km. It will be held on a lap course.
Above all, the campus of Hokkaido University, where I will go three times, is likely to be a starting point for the game, such as the spurt in the second half, because the small cranks continue and it becomes difficult to see the previous player.
How will Maeda, who is strong against the heat of summer, Suzuki, who is proud of his speed, and Ichiyama, who is growing rapidly, become the world's strongest players such as Kenya's Brigid Kosgei, who holds a world record of 2 hours and 14 minutes. I am paying attention to whether I will challenge a great battle.