Yang Shaohui sets a new record! 2023 is a breakthrough year for China’s marathon, 2 hours, 07 minutes and 9 seconds
Today is another day recorded in the history of Chinese marathon! At the Fukuoka Marathon on December 3, Beijing time, Chinese runner Yang Shaohui ran 2 hours, 07 minutes and 9 seconds, winning second place in the race and breaking the Chinese marathon record. It was better than He Jie's run at the Wuxi Marathon in March this year. The original national record was 21 seconds faster. Yang Shaohui also became the first Chinese player to reach "207" twice. At the same time, Yang Shaohui, who created new history, also successfully defeated all Japanese players in the same field.
Photo, Budapest, August 27, 2023 Chinese player Yang Shaohui during the competition. Yang Shaohui finished 38th. On the same day, the men's marathon final of the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary.
Fukuoka is a very famous fast track in Japan and has extremely strict requirements for participants. This year's registration threshold is 2 hours and 27 minutes.
After the start of the race, Yang Shaohui and Feng Peiyou remained in the first group. The half-way time took about 63 minutes. After 33 kilometers, Feng Peiyou gradually fell behind, but Yang Shaohui still maintained the rhythm. Another Japanese athlete Kyohei Hosaya was also there. The first group. After 40 kilometers, Yang Shaohui and Kenyan athlete Michael Githate started competing. At this time, Japanese athlete Kyohei Hosaya began to fall behind. In the end, Michael Githate won the championship with an advantage of 1 second, and Yang Shaohui won the runner-up, successfully breaking the Chinese national record!
He Jie came before him, and Yang Shaohui came after him. National records that had been dusty for many years were broken one after another! 2023 will become the year when Chinese men’s marathon achieves a huge breakthrough.
"Japanese marathons have a high standard, and they often run within '208' or even '206', but these results are actually achieved by people running on different tracks and in different competitions. If they come to our track, or we go Competing with them on the same track, we are not necessarily that far behind them." Yang Shaohui once said that his current outstanding results in the Fukuoka Marathon confirm Yang Shaohui's judgment, but this will not be his ultimate goal.
"If my body allows, I hope to continue to represent China in the marathon at the next Olympics, and I also hope to improve my results and rankings."
Another Chinese athlete Feng Peiyou in the Fukuoka competition finished sixth with a time of 2 hours, 08 minutes and 7 seconds, making him the third Chinese male marathon runner to successfully meet the marathon standards for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
