Tomo Morimoto

This was the race's second fastest run for a woman at that point after Maura Viceconte's course record.

[4] She was also runner-up at the Vienna Marathon that year, finishing behind Luminița Talpoș who defended her title.

[5] She missed out on a place in the Japanese squad for the 2008 Summer Olympics as the selectors preferred to pick Yurika Nakamura.

She signed up for the 2009 London Marathon and finished in eighth place with a time of 2:26:29 – the best performance by an Asian woman at the event.

[6] At the Berlin Marathon in September 2010 she was among the race favourites and took third place with a time of 2:26:10 behind Ethiopians Aberu Kebede and Bezunesh Bekele.