Mari Ozaki
Mari Ozaki (Japanese小崎 まり, Mari Ozaki, * July 16, 1975 in Hirakata ) is a Japanese long-distance runner.
At the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in 2001, she took the 19th place in the 10,000 -meter run.
In 2002 she won the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon, and a year later she debuted successfully on the marathon course, when she was in fifth at 2:23:30 Osaka Women's Marathon.
Two years later she qualified at the same place by a second place in 2:23:59 for the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, when they finished 15th place in the marathon.
The 2007 season started for them with a second place at the Osaka Women's Marathon in 2:24:39. Again she was nominated for the 2007 World Cup, and as Fourteenth she took in Osaka, along with Reiko Tosa and Kiyoko Shimahara bronze in the marathon team score.
Bests
- 5000 m: 15:12,76 min, June 8, 2003, Yokohama
- 10,000 m: 31:34,15 min, April 24, 2005 Kobe
- Half Marathon: 1:09:33 h, February 3, 2002 Marugame
- Marathon: 2:23:30 h, 26 January 2003 Osaka