Honami Maeda


Honami Maeda is a Japanese long-distance runner. She is the holder of the Japanese national record for 30 km, and the winner of the 2017 Hokkaido Marathon and the 2019 Marathon Grand Championship. She has been selected to represent Japan at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Running career

Maeda won her first marathon in 2017. She was second in the 2018 Osaka International Women's Marathon, and in the same year won the Sanyo Women's Half Marathon in 1:09:12. In 2020 Maeda won the Japanese Olympic Marathon trials in 2:25:15, beating second placed Ayuko Suzuki and third placed Rei Ohara.