Satoshi Irifune

Satoshi Irifune (Japanese入 船 敏, Irifune Satoshi, born December 14, 1975 in Hioki ) is a Japanese marathon runner.

At the World Athletics Championships 1999, he joined the 10,000 m on the 20th Place.

The following year he was second in the Japanese firms Championship in the half marathon, finishing at the World Half Marathon Championships in Vera Cruz on the 18th Place. Every eleventh he was in 2002 at the Lake Biwa Marathon and the 2004 Tokyo International Women's Marathon.

In 2005 he won the Beppu - Oita Marathon and came at the World Championships in Helsinki on the 20th Place. In 2006 he was fourth positions respectively in Tokyo and at the Asian Games in Doha. A third place at the Tokyo Marathon 2007 was followed in 2008 just there a fifth place and a second at the Fukuoka Marathon. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 he ran a rank 14.

In 2010 he finished tenth in the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon and ninth in Fukuoka.

Satoshi Irifune is 1,76 m tall and weighs 59 kg. He is a graduate of Commerce High School in Kagoshima. After he started for the corporate team of Kyocera first, he joined in July 2000, the team of Kanebo Cosmetics.

Personal Best

  • 5000 m: 13:22,12 min, July 14, 2001 Heusden
  • 10,000 m: 27:53,92 min, 4 May 2001 Palo Alto
  • Half Marathon: 1:01:36 h, March 12, 2000 Yamaguchi
  • Marathon: 2:09:23 h, December 7, 2008, Fukuoka
Hioki, Kagoshima 1999 World Championships in Athletics 2000 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 2005 World Championships in Athletics 2006 Asian Games Fukuoka-Marathon 2009 World Championships in Athletics 5000 metres Heusden-Zolder Palo Alto, California Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi
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