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The 2023 Tokyo Marathon was the 16th edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, held on Sunday, 5 March 2023. [1] [2] [3] A Platinum Label marathon, it was the first of six annual World Marathon Majors events to be held in 2023, and the only one of the six that has not announced the inclusion of a non-binary division for the year.
The Tokyo Marathon (東京マラソン, Tōkyō Marason) is an annual marathon sporting event in Tokyo, Japan. It is a World Athletics Platinum Label [3] marathon and one of the six World Marathon Majors. [4] The latest edition of the race took place on 3 March 2024. It is sponsored by Tokyo Metro .
The Tokyo Marathon is one of six World Marathon Majors and has been contested annually since 2007, except in 2020 when it was an elite-only race due to the COVID-19 pandemic and in 2021, when the marathon was postponed to 2022 due to the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the 2023 marathon, 128,000 thousand people entered the lottery but only around five per cent of people earned a spot. The lottery opens in February and the New York Road Runners select the ...
Benson Kipruto (born 17 March 1991) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He won the 125th Boston Marathon in 2021 (2:09:51), the 2022 Chicago Marathon (2:04:24) and the 2024 Tokyo Marathon in a personal best of 2:02:16, where he also set a new course record. Kipruto finished third at both the 2022 and 2023 Boston Marathon with times of 2:07:27 and ...
The fist World Marathon Major of the year will be held on 3 March in Tokyo. The marathon will start at 9.10am local time (12.10am GMT), five minutes after the wheelchair athletes get underway.
In the meantime, the first ekiden, Tokaido ekidentohokyoso (東海道駅伝徒歩競走) was held in 1917 between Sanjō Ōhashi, Kyoto and Ueno Shinobazunoike (上野不忍池) Tokyo, celebrating 50 years after Tokyo became the capital. This race was a big relay race between Kyoto and Tokyo (516 km) held by Yomiuri Shimbun for three days. It ...
Robin Roberts, David Muir and 10 others from ABC News will run the marathon as a relay to raise money for Team For Kids, the Road Runners charity that supports its free youth and community events.