Tomoe Abe

Tomoe Abe (安部友恵, Abe Tomoe, born 13 August 1971 in Kitsuki, Ōita) is a retired Japanese ultramarathon and marathon runner who won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1993 World Championships with a time of 2:31:01.^[1]^[2] Her personal best time is 2:26:09, achieved when she won the 1994 Osaka Ladies' Marathon.

She is the female world record holder in the ultramarathon of 100 kilometres with a time of 6:33:11, which was set on June 25, 2000, at the Lake Saroma Ultramarathon, an official IAAF(International Association of Athletics Federations) race held annually in Hokkaido, Japan.^[3]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Japan
1990	World Junior Championships	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	11th	10,000m	35:23.47
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	3rd	Marathon	2:31:01
1994	Osaka Ladies Marathon	Osaka, Japan	1st	Marathon	2:26:09
1996	Hokkaido Marathon	Sapporo, Japan	1st	Marathon	2:31:21
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	29th	Marathon	2:45:19
2000	Osaka Ladies Marathon	Osaka, Japan	6th	Marathon	2:28:01
2001	Nagoya Marathon	Nagoya, Japan	5th	Marathon	2:27:01

^ Moorcroft, Dave; Foster, Brendan (15 August 1993). "1993 World Championships". BBC. 27 minutes 50 seconds. London, England: posted by Basil Sage as '4230 World Track & Field 1993 Marathon Women' as first in a series of digitized (from VHS) videos for the full marathon (published 14 September 2017). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023 – via YouTube.
^ Moorcroft, Dave; Foster, Brendan (15 August 1993). "1993 World Championships". BBC. 7 minutes 20 seconds. London, England: posted by Basil Sage as '4253 World Track & Field 1993 Marathon Women' as last in a series of digitized (from VHS) videos for the full marathon (published 11 October 2017). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023 – via YouTube.
^ "100 kilometers Records". iaaf.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2022.

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