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
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