On March 13, local time, the world's only platinum women's event, the Nagoya Women's Marathon, started on time. Although the top three women in Japan's active women's competition have been absent, but the competition is still not lost highlights and surprises, in addition to Kenya's famous Cheptych won the championship with a good result of 2:17:18 pure women's history of the second best time to win the prize of 250,000 US dollars, a Japanese university student named Yuhana Suzuki also attracted the attention of the whole audience, in her first horse race, she ran 2 hours and 25 minutes and 02 seconds, the result ranked fifth in the field, the third place in Japan, second only to the Japanese veteran Yuka Ando and the special invited player Hosoda Ai, And set a new record for Japanese female university students in malaysia.
For this race, Yuka Suzuki opened in the women's second group, passing the first 5 km in 17 minutes and 11 seconds.
10 km time 34 minutes 06 seconds, 15 km time 51 minutes 07 seconds, 20 km time 1 hour 08 minutes 07 seconds, 25 km time 1 hour 25 minutes 09 seconds, 30 km time 1 hour 42 minutes 02 seconds. 35 km time 1 hour 42 minutes 30 seconds, 40 kilometers 2 hours 16 minutes 30 seconds.
In the end, Yuka Suzuki finished the race in 2 hours, 25 minutes and 02 seconds and qualified for MGC, the only Japanese university student to qualify so far, and she also improved the record for japanese female college students by 1 minute and 44 seconds. The original Japanese female university student all-horse record was 2 hours, 26 minutes and 46 seconds, created by Ayari Maeda at the 2014 Osaka International Marathon.
Born in Akita Prefecture, Japan, 22-year-old Yuhana Suzuki was unknown during his time at Obiharu High School, finishing 14th in the 3,000-meter race and not even reaching the final in his junior year of high school. However, after entering Daito Bunka University, Suzuki Yuka's performance has made a qualitative breakthrough, and in the first three academic years, Suzuki has won the second, third and sixth divisions of the all-Japan Women's Stage For three consecutive years. In 2019, she won the gold medal in 1 hour, 11 minutes and 27 seconds at the Japan Collegiate Half Horse Championships; in 2021, she also won the women's 10,000 meters championship in Japan's intercollegiate competition and set a record for the event.
However, due to the impact of the epidemic, Suzuki Yuhana's season in the third year was shortened, coupled with an injury to the right leg fibula, although she participated in the Mt. Fuji Women's Stagecoach Competition, she still missed the competition in the first half of the fourth academic year, during which the freshman of Takushoku University did not break the holy clothes to enter everyone's field of vision with a super high level of competition.
Accompanying Suzuki to the university competition, Suzuki's coach gradually discovered that Suzuki Yuhana was a runner who could lead the way on his own. "Since the relay race only needs to run one zone, it is possible to maintain a fast pace from the beginning, but for the all-horse race, this pace is difficult to last for a long time, but Suzuki has this ability, so I hope she can make good use of her advantage."
This year's Nagoya Women's Marathon, the first race in the whole country and the last race Yuka Suzuki will participate in as a university student, will soon graduate from Daito Bunka University, and a new career will begin for her.