A total of 17,101 runners took part in the event, recognised as the world’s largest women-only marathon.
MoreChepkirui won last year’s Nagoya Women’s Marathon in 2:20:40 ahead of Japan’s Sayaka Sato and Bahrain’s Eunice Chumba.
MoreThe race started with a 3:19 first kilometre, and that pace was maintained for the next kilometre. A 10-strong lead group plus pacemakers reached the 5km mark in 16:42, with a small gap of around four seconds back to the
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