Mara Yamauchi
Mara Yamauchi (born Myers, born August 13, 1973 in Oxford) is a former British long-distance runner. She ran after the world record holder Paula Radcliffe set the second fastest time a British woman on the marathon course.
It was named after the river Mara in Kenya, where her parents have lived a total of 25 years, and they spent their first ten years.
With serious running training she began as a student. After completing her master's degree in political economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1996, she joined the service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1998 she was British champion in cross-country running. In the same year she was transferred to Japan and continued with running out. In 2002 she married the Japanese Shigetoshi Yamauchi.
In 2003 she returned to England and began to work part-time in order to devote himself again running. In 2006 she was unpaid released by the Foreign Ministry, to prepare for the Olympic Games in 2008, and moved to Japan.
According to a tenth place in the London Marathon in 2:31:52 hours, she was nominated for the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, when they finished 18th place. In the same year, it increased as the Fifth Tokyo International Women's Marathon at 2:27:38 h even faster she was in the next two years in London, where she in 2:25:13 and 2:25:41 respectively the sixth place was taken - by Paula Radcliffe apart the fastest times, which had achieved up to that point a British runner. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won the bronze medal in her personal best time of 31:49,40 min in the 10,000 meter race. In a marathon, the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she was ninth.
Your biggest achievement so far is winning the Osaka Women's Marathon 2008, in which she screwed her personal best to 2:25:10 h. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, she finished in 2:27:29 h as the best British ranks sixth in the marathon. In November, she was in 2:25:03 h third in the last edition of the Tokyo International Women's Marathon.
In 2009 she won in February at Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon in a personal best of 1:08:29 h In April she won the London Marathon behind the German Mikitenko second in 2:23:12 h and thus undercutting their personal Best Performance by almost two minutes. In 2010 she won the Ōme Marathon over 30 km after they had won this competition in 2006, 2007 and 2009, over 10 km. Then they presented at the New York City Half-Marathon with a 1:09:25 course record. 2013, it withdrew from competitive sports.
Mara Yamauchi is 1,62 m tall and weighed about 50 kg competition times. It started in England for the Harrow AC and in Japan for the Second Wind AC.