[Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2023 Invited Athletes]Honami Maeda (Tenmaya)

We will introduce the Japanese invited runners of Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2023 with “aspirations”.[Chunichi Shimbun Web Special Page]https://www.chunichi.co.jp/wadai/womens_marathon Maeda Honami is from Hyogo Prefecture. She moved to Tenmaya from Osaka Kaoruei Girls’ High School. she is 26 years old. In 2017 she won Hokkaido in 2 hours 28 minutes 48 seconds and became the first female to qualify for the MGC at the Tokyo Olympics. She won the 2019 MGC ​​with a difference of nearly 4 minutes. At the Tokyo Olympics, she persevered in a hot race and finished 33rd. Her first marathon was the 2017 Osaka International. Her personal best is 2 hours 23 minutes 30 seconds in Osaka in 2009. Her personality is “a sore loser”. Her most frustrating race was the Tokyo Olympics. Her hobby is running.