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Runners to watch in the Boston Marathon

Wakako Tsuchida of Japan
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Wakako Tsuchida

Number: W101

Personal Best: Oita, 2001 - 1:38:32

Age: 37

Country: Japan

Boston Marathon: Winner of last 4 women's wheelchair races. 2010 time: 1:43:32.

Of Note: Tsuchida, Japan’s first women’s professional wheelchair athlete, captured her fourth straight Boston Marathon title in the women’s wheelchair division last year. This will be her seventh Boston Marathon. In each of the last four years she has won by at least three minutes. She has won the Oita Marathon four times (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003) and the Honolulu Marathon twice (2003, 2005).

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