Suguru Osako

A marathon in the 2:04 range still reads like a typo to me. Suguru Osako, born in Machida, Tokyo in 1991 and standing 170 cm, is not built to overpower anybody; he simply refuses to slow down. He took the 10,000 m gold at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, holds the Asian junior record in the half marathon, and rewrote the Japanese marathon record himself, running 2:04:55 for fourth place at the 2025 Valencia Marathon. What I respect most is that he never settled into the comfortable, well-funded system waiting for him at home. He kept choosing his own base, his own training, his own terms, which is a lonelier way to build a career than it sounds. He has stepped away from the sport and then come back to it, and that tells me running isn't a job to him so much as the way he checks whether he's still himself.

Name (English)

Suguru Osako

Name (Japanese)

大迫傑

Born

May 23, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

Origin

Machida, Tokyo, Japan

Height

170 cm

Occupation

long-distance runner / marathon runner / athletics competitor / athlete

High school

Saku Chosei Junior & Senior High School

University

Waseda University

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://suguruosako.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/suguru_osako/
• Xhttps://x.com/sugurusako
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%BF%AB%E5%82%91

Tags

• Tokyo
• long-distance runner
• marathon runner
• athletics competitor

Last updated

2026-07-26

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.