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Oita and Tokyou Marathons Announce Elite Fields By David Monti with Ken Nakamura (c) 2008 Race Results Weekly, all right reserved January 21, 2008
Next month's Beppu-Oita Mainichi and Tokyo International Marathons have released their elite fields:
Beppu-Oita (03-Feb):
Invited International: Elijah Mutai (KEN) 2:09:27 PB (2005 Chunchon) Mark Yatich (KEN) 2:09:52 (2003 Los Angeles) Ruggero Pertile (ITA) 2:10:12 (2004 Roma) Rachid Kisri (MAR) 2:10:36 (2006 Treviso) Scott Wescott (AUS) 2:11:36 (2005 Beppu-Oita) Asheber Girma (ETH) 2:16:39 (2007 Addis Ababa)
Invited Japanese: Michitane Noda 2:09:58 (2003 Fukuoka) Noriyuki Mizuguchi 2:14:26 (2003 Nagano) Kenta Oshima 1:01:48 (2003 JPN Corporate Half Marathon) Takayuki Ota 1:02:50 (2006 Kyoto Half Marathon )
Other Top Runners: Daniel Mwangi (KEN) Akira Shimizu (JPN) Akira Kiniwa (JPN)
Tokyo (17-Feb): Invited International: Daniel Njenga (KEN) 2:06:16 (2002 Chicago) Viktor Roethlin (SUI) 2:08:20 (2007 Zurich) Jon Brown (CAN) 2:09:31 (2005 London) Eric Wainaina (KEN) 2:08:43 (2002 Tokyo) Samson Ramadhani (TAN) 2:08:01 (2003 London) Hailu Negussie (ETH) 2:08:16 (2002 Hofu) Abel Kirui (KEN) 2:06:51 (2007 Berlin)
Invited Japanese: Toshinari Suwa 2:07:55 (2003 Fukuoka) Satoshi Irifune 2:09:58 (2005 Beppu-Oita) Ken-ichi Kita 2:11:41 (2006 Nobeoka) Kazushi Hara 2:12:11 (2004 Lake Biwa) Kenjiro Jitsui 2:08:50 (1996 Tokyo) Koji Shimizu 2:08:28 (2003 Lake Biwa)
Other Top Runners: Teruto Ozaki (JPN) Kurao Umeki (JPN) Kazutoshi Takatsuka (JPN) Kazuyoshi Tokumoto (JPN) Seiji Kobayashi (JPN) Manabu Itayama (JPN) Takayuki Nishida (JPN) Julius Gitahi (KEN)
Pacemakers: Makoto Iwase (JPN) Joseph Kariuki (KEN) Zebedayo Bayo (TAN) David Kemboy (KEN) Luis Jesus (POR)
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