Mao Ichiyama

Quick Facts

Intro

Japanese long-distance runner

Places

Japan

Long-distance runner Runner

Work field

Sports

Gender

Female

Birth

1997

Place of birth

Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Age

27 years

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Mao Ichiyama (一山麻緒, Ichiyama Mao, born May 29, 1997, Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese long-distance runner. She made to 2020 Japanese Olympic Team.

Running career

Ichiyama is winner of 2017 Fukuoka International Cross Country (8 km in 26:46) and 2020 Nagoya Women's Marathon in 2:20:29 thus beating 2:21:47 time of Mizuki Matsuda (2020 Osaka International Women's Marathon) to enter as third participant to 2020 Tokyo Olympics, together with Honami Maeda and Ayuko Suzuki.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Japan
2017	Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon	Virginia Beach, United States	1st	Half Marathon	1:13:49
2017	Sanyo Women's Half Marathon	Okayama, Japan	3rd	Half Marathon	1:09:14
2018	IAAF World Half Marathon Championships	Valencia, Spain	19th	Half Marathon	1:11:02
2018	BOLDERBoulder 10k	Boulder, United States	8th	10 km	34:10
2018	KBC Night of Athletics	Heusden-Zolder, Belgium	19th	5000 m	15:45.56
2019	Kagawa Marugame International Half Marathon	Marugame, Japan	6th	Half marathon	1:10:49
2019	Tokyo Marathon	Tokyo, Japan	7th	Marathon	2:24:33
2019	London Marathon	London, United Kingdom	17th	Marathon	2:27:27
2019	Hakodate Marathon	Hakodate, Japan	1st	Half marathon	1:08:49
2020	Kagawa Marugame International Half Marathon	Marugame, Japan	5th	Half marathon	1:08:56
2020	Nagoya Women's Marathon	Nagoya, Japan	1st	Marathon	2:20:29