Sunday April 23rd, 2023
Gifu, Japan
Distance: Half Marathon
Offical Race Web Site
The Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon is an annual half marathon road running competition held in Gifu, Japan.
First held in 2011, the race is also called the Naoko Takahashi Cup, named after Naoko Takashi, the retired local runner who won the marathon at the 2000 Sidney Olympics and broke the marathon world record in 2001, becoming the first woman to complete the distance in under two hours and twenty minutes. The first edition featured top level and popular sections for the half marathon as well as a shorter 3-kilometre fun run. All the funds raised during the event went towards the reconstruction effort following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami.
Some 9000 people took part in the inaugural event including elite Kenyan runners Martin Mathathi and Catherine Ndereba.
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 1:00:20 | Amos KURGAT | KEN | |
| 2nd Male | 1:01:37 | Paul KUIRA | KEN | |
| 3rd Male | 1:01:38 | Philip MULUWA | KEN | |
| 4th Male | 1:01:40 | Kiyoshi KOGA | JPN | |
| Female | 1:08:18 | Dolphine Nyaboke OMARE | KEN | |
| 2nd Female | 1:09:53 | Hellen Ekalale LOBUN | KEN | |
| 3rd Female | 1:09:57 | Tirunesh DIBABA | ETH | |
| 4th Female | 1:10:11 | Malindi ELMORE | CAN |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
The Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon is an annual half marathon road running competition held in May in Gifu, Japan. The course for the competition starts and finishes at the Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium. It has a single-looped format and mainly follows the Nagara River in the north and central parts of the city. The first section of the race heads south for 4 km, passing through the Yanagase shopping district, until it reaches the Golden Statue of oda Nobunaga beside Gifu Station.
The course then returns north and, upon reaching the river, takes a 6 km-long route going east alongside the river, passing Mount Kinka and Gifu Castle. The course then crosses Tidori Bridge into the Nagara-Furutsu district and heads back west before finally ending up at the stadium.
