Women’s 5000m: Yuriko Kobayashi (Toyota Industries), Laura Thweatt (Boulder Track Club) Men’s 5000m: Kenyon Neuman (Hudson Training Systems)
Yuriko Kobayashi
University of Washington Final Qualifier Meet (Indoors)
Yuriko Kobayashi (Toyota Wellness) – Women’s Mile and 5000m
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31:51.91 PB for Yuriko Kobayashi
Fresh off a month of Boulder training, Toyota’s Yuriko Kobayashi (Toyota/Mizuno) chopped 30-seconds off her 10,000m PB this evening at the All-Japan Corporate Track Championships, taking 2nd overall behind Kenya’s Sally Chepyego (31:33.76) and finishing as top Japanese in the event. It was only the second 10,000m of Yuriko’s career, following her 32:21.03 debut at a Hokuren meeting this summer in Japan. Earlier in her career, Yuriko was the world’s fastest 1500m junior in 2006 (with her 4:07.86 PB) and has been slowly moving up in distance since her graduation from college.
In her first race since the Olympics and also on the heels of a Boulder training camp, Kayoko Fukushi (Wacoal/adidas) finished a half-second back in third in 31:52.54. Kayoko was announced this week as part of the invited field for the November 4th ING New York City Marathon, which has assembled a spectacularly deep field of many of the world’s top women.
Fukushi’s fellow 5000m/10000m Olympian, Mika Yoshikawa of Panasonic, another recent Boulder trainee, took 5th overall in 32:09.10.
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