Tomoe Abe
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Born | Kitsuki, Ōita | August 13, 1971||||||||||||||
Height | 149 cm (4 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||
Sport | marathon, ultramarathon | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tomoe Abe (安部 友恵, Abe Tomoe, born 13 August 1971 in Kitsuki, Ōita) is a retired Japanese ultramarathon and marathon runner who won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1993 World Championships with a time of 2:31:01.[1][2] Her personal best time is 2:26:09, achieved when she won the 1994 Osaka Ladies' Marathon.
She is the female world record holder in the ultramarathon of 100 kilometres with a time of 6:33:11, which was set on June 25, 2000, at the Lake Saroma Ultramarathon, an official IAAF(International Association of Athletics Federations) race held annually in Hokkaido, Japan.[3]
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1990 | World Junior Championships | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | 11th | 10,000m | 35:23.47 |
1993 | World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 3rd | Marathon | 2:31:01 |
1994 | Osaka Ladies Marathon | Osaka, Japan | 1st | Marathon | 2:26:09 |
1996 | Hokkaido Marathon | Sapporo, Japan | 1st | Marathon | 2:31:21 |
1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 29th | Marathon | 2:45:19 |
2000 | Osaka Ladies Marathon | Osaka, Japan | 6th | Marathon | 2:28:01 |
2001 | Nagoya Marathon | Nagoya, Japan | 5th | Marathon | 2:27:01 |
References
[edit]- ^ Moorcroft, Dave; Foster, Brendan (15 August 1993). "1993 World Championships". BBC. 27 minutes 50 seconds. London, England: posted by Basil Sage as '4230 World Track & Field 1993 Marathon Women' as first in a series of digitized (from VHS) videos for the full marathon (published 14 September 2017). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023 – via YouTube.
- ^ Moorcroft, Dave; Foster, Brendan (15 August 1993). "1993 World Championships". BBC. 7 minutes 20 seconds. London, England: posted by Basil Sage as '4253 World Track & Field 1993 Marathon Women' as last in a series of digitized (from VHS) videos for the full marathon (published 11 October 2017). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023 – via YouTube.
- ^ "100 kilometers Records". iaaf.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2022.