The 2025 Osaka Marathon in Japan started on the 24th local time, and the 25-year-old long-distance runner Ryota Kondo, who switched to the full marathon for the first time, reached the finish line with a time of 2 hours, 05 minutes and 39 seconds, setting a record for the best start of a Japanese runner.

25-year-old long-distance runner Ryota Kondo

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, at the Beppu Oita Marathon on the 2nd of this month, Hiroki Wakabayashi just set a new Japanese record for the first marathon with a time of 2 hours 06 minutes 07 seconds, but he did not expect Kondo Ryota to break through 28 seconds in one fell swoop today and finish in 2 hours 05 minutes 39 seconds.

In addition, Kondo was the fifth-fastest marathon in Japan's history, but unfortunately he was two seconds slower than 28-year-old Ethiopian Adane, who won the race in 2:05:37 and broke the conference record.