Eriko Asai

Eriko Asai (Japanese浅井 えり子, Eriko Asai, born October 20, 1959 in Adachi, Tokyo ) is a former Japanese marathon runner.

Sports career

In 1980, while studying at the Bunkyo University, she ran at the Tokyo International Women's Marathon their first competition 42.195 miles and was in 3:00:32 h Twelfth. In 1982 she became a member of the company's team of NEC Home Electronics, where she was coached by Isao Sasaki. In 1983 she was in each case with a personal best third at the Vancouver Marathon in 2:50:36 h and Fifth in Tokyo in 2:39:47 h The following year it increased again in fourth at Nagoya Marathon 2:38:31 h and as runner-up in Tokyo to 2:33:43 h 1985 she finished ninth at the IAAF World Cup Marathon in Hiroshima. As second in the Osaka Women's Marathon 1986, she was nominated for the Asian Games in Seoul, where she won the gold medal. At the World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome, she came on the 26th place. In 1988, she qualified with a fourth place in Osaka for the Olympic Games in Seoul, where she broke in on rank 25. In 1989, she finished fourth in the Boston Marathon, 1990 Eleventh in Osaka and Nagoya, and each third party in the Hokkaido Marathon. In 1991, she presented the pilot Marathon Betsukai ( sub-prefecture Nemuro ) with 2:35:29 h the current course record. In the following season they finished third in Nagoya and won the Sapporo Half Marathon, in which she had been victorious in 1987. As a seventh at the World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 in South Shields, they also contributed to winning the gold medal for the Japanese team, and in Tokyo, she was third. In 1993, she was twice under two and a half hours in Nagoya, she finished fourth in 2:28:22 h, and the Gold Coast Marathon with 2:29:29 hours she put the current course record. In Tokyo, she was fifth. In 1994 she won the Ōme Marathon over 30 km and Nagoya.

In August, a malignant melanoma was diagnosed with her ​​trainer and life partner Isao Sasaki. The couple married shortly afterwards, and when the therapy seemed to initially run successfully, they drove to the Honolulu Marathon, where Eriko Asai was second. At the beginning of the year, however, worsened his condition, and he died on 3 March 1995, exactly one year after Eriko's triumph in Nagoya. A year later, Eriko Asai arrived in Nagoya on the 14th Place. In the high-caliber Japanese women's race they could no longer occupy top positions. However, it was with more than 40 years in 1999 and 2000 Fifth Eighth in Honolulu, and in 2001 she came at Gold Coast Marathon on the third and in Honolulu to ninth place.

Training method

Isao Sasaki's preferred training method were similar to Ernst van Aaken, long runs at a slow pace (long slow distance). He wrote about it in 1984 a book entitledゆっくり 走れ ば 速く なる( naru yukkuri hashireba hayaku, " running slow, and you'll quickly "). Eriko Asai leads this legacy continued as a trainer, running teacher and author.

Personal Best

  • 5000 m: 15:41,80 min, May 5, 1993 Shizuoka
  • 10,000 m: 32:22,18 min, April 25, 1993 Kobe
  • Half Marathon: 1:10:51 h, September 20, 1992, South Shields
  • Marathon: 2:28:22 h, March 7, 1993, Nagoya

Publications

  • もういちど 二 人 で 走り たい(Mon ichido futari de Hashiritai ). Tokuma Shoten, Tokyo, 1995, ISBN 4-19-860391- X
  • 新·ゆっくり 走れ ば 速く なる( Shin yukkuri hashireba hayaku naru ). Runners, 1997, ISBN 4-947537-48-5; Reprint ibid. 2005, ISBN 4-947537-63-9
Vancouver-Marathon Nagoya-Marathon World Marathon Cup 1986 Asian Games 1987 World Championships in Athletics Boston-Marathon 1992 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships Gold-Coast-Marathon Honolulu-Marathon 5000 metres Shizuoka, Shizuoka
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