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The 2024 Tokyo Marathon was the 17th edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, held on Sunday, 3 March 2024. A Platinum Label marathon, it was the first of six annual World Marathon Majors events to be held in 2024. [1] With over 37,000 competitors, new course records were set in both the men's and women's races.
The men's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the inaugural edition in 1896.. All three medalists in Tokyo returned: 2016 and 2020 gold medalist Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya, 2020 silver medalist Abdi Nageeye from the Netherlands, and 2020 bronze medalist Bashir Abdi from Belgium.
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.
When is the 2024 Tokyo Marathon? 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 ...
The Olympic records for the event are 2:06:26 hours for men, set by Tamirat Tola in 2024, and 2:23:07 hours for women, set by Tiki Gelana in 2012. The men's marathon world record has been improved several times at the Olympics: in 1908, 1920, and then at successive Olympics by Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964. [11]
The following is the unofficial list of top finishers in the 2024 L.A. Marathon.Race results are still being certified and will be updated. Names are listed as they were entered on runners ...
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, are an ongoing international multi-sport event being held in Paris, France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 24 July. [1] Athletes representing 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are participating in the games. [2]
The women's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1984. In its four-decade-long Olympic history since the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the women's marathon will occur on the last day of the athletics program for the first time, with the men's race scheduled a day before.