Returning to the roads after his 2:06:18 win at February's Osaka Marathon, Kiyoto Hirabayashi (Koku Gakuin University) took 5th at Sunday's Shanghai Half Marathon in a PB 1:01:23, just under a minute behind winner Roncer …
Koku Gakuin University 3rd-year Kiyoto Hirabayashi, 21, won Sunday's Osaka Marathon in a debut and collegiate record 2:06:18. KGU head coach Yasuhiro Maeda said the secret to Hirabayashi's speed was "the flexibility …
The rain mostly stopped exactly 10 minutes before the start of the Osaka Marathon, and conditions were actually pretty good for most of what ended up a record-breaking race.Backing off from the organizers planned 3:19/km when the…