There is probably no more appropriate week than the one that marks World Women’s Day to prepare for the International Women’s Marathon to be held in Nagoya, Japan this coming Sunday (March 13). For running enthusiasts in the country there are two interesting angles here: 1. Luna Chamtai Salpeter will compete in this marathon. 2. The prize for the winner is unprecedented even in terms of men and stands at $ 250,000 – an all-time record whenThe goal of the organizers was, among other things, to empower the marathon runners, who in some places in the world were not allowed to compete at all in the 1960s. And even when it comes to the Olympics, women have only started competing in marathons since 1984.
The World’s Largest Women’s Marathon Photo: shutterstock
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In that year, by the way, the women’s marathon was launched in Nagoya, which a few years earlier had run in the form of a shorter road run, and today is the only marathon with the Platinum label of the International Athletics Association for women only, and after the last two years Ever with more than 20,000 runners.
Nagoya is the fourth largest city in Japan, and on the day of the marathon is expected to be clear, with the maximum temperature at noon expected to reach 20 degrees Celsius, but will probably be more pleasant at the start – 9:10 a.m. Japan, i.e. 2:10 p.m. Israel (between Saturday and Sunday). The track record of the Japanese Mai Ochiama set two years ago stands at 2:20:29 hrs, but this year two runners with much faster personal records will run in Nagoya, and one of them is Luna Chamtai Salpeter.
The Israeli Representation
Luna Chamtai Salpter who is the eighth marathon runner of all time in the world, with Personal record of 2:17:45 p.m. (Which she set when she won the Tokyo Marathon in 2020) is one of the two senior runners on paper in the Nagoya Women’s Marathon in 2022. Since that amazing achievement of Salpeter just before the world closed in early 2020, she has run 3 more official marathons in 2021: the first was a test at Agmon Hula The Olympics where she set 2:22:37 hrs, at the Olympics themselves in August she fought for the bronze medal but Lost strength 4 miles to the finish and finished in 66th place, and for the third time she ran the prestigious London Marathon in October andFinished fifth With its second result ever, 2:18:54 h.
The difference between the preparations for her previous marathons and the preparation for the current one is the joining of Luna Chamtai Salpter to the Dutch running group NN RUNNING which many of the world’s top runners and runners are members of, including the greatest of them all Elioud Kipchuga. According to a post recently published by her husband and coach, Dan Salpter, the change is reflected in the fact that she made most of her preparations as part of a team with depth and in many trainings enjoyed rhythm dictators and training partners from different countries around the world.
Of course every track is different and weather conditions play a role, but there is no doubt that Luna Chamtai Salpeter will want to run faster than the track record of the Nagoya Marathon, and maybe even get closer to the personal peak from the Tokyo Marathon. In any case, On paper she should have at least one big rival who will compete with her for the big money and prestige.
On the way to another victory? Luna Chamtai Salpter | Photo: shutterstock
The great rival and the rest of the rivalry
The second runner to compete in Nagoya and have a faster personal record than the track record (significantly) is also the fourth marathon runner in the world of all time. This is the Kenyan Ruth Chepengtitch, with a personal record of 2:17:08 hrs (Dubai Marathon 2019) who is also the world champion from Doha 2019 and to this day she has won five of the six marathons in which she reached the finish line (retired during the Tokyo Olympic Marathon 2020).
Chapengetić, who until last October was also the world champion in a half marathon, arrives in Japan afterWon the Chicago Marathon Last October at 2:22:31 p.m.
As for the other rivals in the elite field of the competitors, most will be local and the one who will lead the Japanese is Yaka Ando, who has a personal record of 2:21:36 hrs, who previously finished twice in second place in Nagoya and may even try to face the Japanese record for women (2:19: 12 hours of Mizuki Noguchi from 2005). She will be joined by 4 other Japanese runners who hold personal records around 2: 25-2: 26 hrs and the 45-year-old Australian Shane Diver, who only in 2019 set a personal best of 2:24:11 hrs when she finished seventh in the London Marathon, and her personal best In a half marathon she set two years ago.
The goals
Thanks to the results she achieved in 2021, Luna Chamtai Salpter has already secured her participation in the World Athletics Championships to be held this coming July in Oregon in the United States. In Nagoya she will try to take advantage of the fast track to try and get closer to her personal best, and if she manages to produce another run that will be faster than two hours and 19 minutes, maybe even two hours and 18 minutes, she will definitely try to compete for victory against one of the fastest runners in history. In the end, the Israeli champion also belongs to the “Top 10” club of all time and sorry for the cliché but the marathon, really has its own rules and only on Sunday morning can we be smarter.
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