Hobby is running.
Please enjoy a photo first: What is everyone's first impression?
Lovely? Picturesque? Legs so straight? Forgive me as a girl for seeing Maeda Hotan and can't help but shout: Kawaii! Then seven words came out of his mouth superficially: white skin, beautiful and long legs.
Cough cough,
Speaking back to Hotan Maeda.
In the Ome 30 km marathon held on February 16, Hotan Maeda broke the 30 km national record with a time of 1 hour, 38 minutes and 35 seconds after leading the second place by 8 minutes.
In fact, in this game, Maeda Hotan is aimed at breaking the record. Hotan's stated goal was the original record of 1 hour, 39 minutes and 06 seconds, a record set by former Olympic champion Nokori Kozuki in 2004.
Hotan Maeda broke the 16-year-old Japanese record, a result that many people did not expect.
Maybe after watching her running life, we will know the answer.
The running life that began in the first grade of elementary school
Honami Maeda was born on July 17, 1996 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. She said that because her parents were big fans of Tokyo Love Story (1991), her name Hotan pronounced the same as actress Honami's name, Suzuki Honami. When he was a child, Hotan Maeda was as active and active as a boy.
In the first grade of elementary school, after Honan participated in the marathon and won the first place, his confidence increased greatly, and he fell in love with marathon sports ever since. During her elementary school years, Hotan continued to compete in schools and won awards. She won the first place in the school marathon in her sixth grade, and in the submission of the primary six graduation essay collection, Hotan wrote about running. The article said that because of the father to accompany the training, this is the most valuable first place.
After graduating from junior high school, Hotan Maeda went to school in Osaka from Hyogo Prefecture, where she attended Kaoru Osaka Girls' High School, which is a famous women's college for long-distance running. At that time, her predecessors included Omori Naetsuki, Matsuda Mitsuo, Kagamiyama sisters (Kagasa Seiri and Kagasa Keinai) and other long-distance running elites, Matsuda.
In the third year of junior high school, Hotan Maeda won the 1500m at the Osaka National High School Conference held in July 2014 and set a new record for the conference.
When he graduated from high school, Hotan wrote down his dream in a notebook: to participate in the Olympic Games.
So, after graduating from high school in 2015, Hotan went to work for a company that gathered long-distance running elites, that is, Tianmanya Department Store headquartered in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture. At work, Hotan is an ordinary quiet clerk, and when he arrives at the arena, he becomes a warrior running like the wind.
After joining Tenmanya, Hotan worked closely with his teammates Such as Ohara Andi and Shigetomo Isaac to be active and shine in various women's industrial group stage-play events. Hotan is 166 centimeters tall and weighs only 46 kilograms, which can be seen that her body fat content is quite low. Interestingly, despite her slender appearance, she eats 2.5 times as much as other athletes.
Mr. Taketomi, Hotan's head running coach and 30 years of coaching experience, said it was good that the food would allow her to recover better.
In addition, Hotan's arms and legs are relatively slender, but the distance to raise the legs is relatively low, and less time is wasted in the air, reducing loss.
20-year-old Hotan Maeda's marathon attack path
On January 29, 2017, the Osaka Women's Marathon was held, and the under-21-year-old Hotan Maeda began the marathon with a time of 2 hours, 31 minutes and 19 seconds. In August of the same year, she ran 2 hours, 28 minutes and 48 seconds in the Hokkaido Marathon, and successfully passed the 230th level, with which Hotan has been able to qualify for the MGC Selection Competition.
But she was not satisfied, and in January 2018, Hotan ran another 2 hours, 23 minutes and 48 seconds in the Osaka Women's Marathon, speeding up her full horse pb by 5 minutes. The winner of the race was 22-year-old marathon rookie Miyo Matsuda, with a time of 2 hours, 22 minutes and 44 seconds.
Because of this result, Hotan ranked 7th out of 15 women who initially qualified for the MGC Selection Competition.
After the all-horse pb, Hotan ran the Berlin Marathon in Germany in September 2018, and her first overseas marathon ranked seventh with a time of 2 hours 25 minutes and 23 seconds; in March 2019, she lost the Tokyo Marathon and finally ranked 12th in the whole field and 2nd in Japan with a time of 2 hours 31 minutes and 42 seconds. The winner of the match was Asao Irisan, who scored 2 hours, 24 minutes and 33 seconds.
"From now on, I will compete with the world's players."
On September 15, 2019, the MGC Competition opened, and Hotan Maeda won the first place with a time of 2 hours, 25 minutes and 15 seconds, becoming the first female athlete to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. In the race, Hotan began to lead all the way to the finish line after 20 kilometers, and no female runner overtook her.
She said to herself: "From now on, I will compete with the world's players. "So she kept going to the end with absolute superiority and she was going to do her best to finish the race.
Touchingly, during this match, Maeda Hotan's parents came to the scene to cheer up, and Hotan's parents said that they hoped that at the Tokyo Olympics, everyone could become her supporters. They are happy to be the force behind their daughter and want her to practice hard and achieve her goals.
After the MGC match, Hotan said: "My heart is already in the Tokyo Olympics next year. ”
Breaking the Ome 30 km record is unexpected, so we might as well guess that Maeda Hotan was able to break the Japanese record of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 12 seconds set by Nokori At the Tokyo Olympics in the 2005 Berlin Marathon?
Maybe we should look forward to this summer.