Former marathon world champion Asari announces retirement

IKEDA, Japan - Former women's marathon world champion Junko Asari announces her retirement at a press conference in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture on Jan. 24. Asari became the first female Japanese world champion in athletics when she won the women's marathon in Stuttgart, Germany in 1993.

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