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British marathon champion Charlotte Purdue clocks 68:45 in Japan for her second fastest ever time winning the Sanyo half-marathon on Sunday
Britain’s Charlotte Purdue won the half-marathon in 68:45 for the British marathon champion’s second fastest ever time over 13.1 miles and her quickest on a record-eligible course (behind her 68:08 recorded at this year’s Great North Run).
It is over a minute quicker than she ran at the Kagawa Marugame International Half Marathon in February.
Purdue beat, among others, Japanese Olympic marathon trials winner Honami Maeda (69:08).
Sara Miyake was third in 69:23, while Canada’s Rachel Cliff set a national record of 70:06 in sixth.
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