Tokyo Marathon

Tokyo Marathon
The 2009 Tokyo Marathon
Date	February
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Event type	road
Distance	Marathon
Established	2007
Official site	www.tokyo42195.org

The Tokyo Marathon (東京マラソン, Tokyo Marason) is an annual marathon sporting event in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. It is sponsored by Tokyo Metro. In November 2012 it was declared that from 2013 on it would be one of six World Marathon Majors.^[1] The last edition of the race took place on Sunday February 24, 2013.

History

Runners taking part in the 2008 Tokyo Marathon

The first Tokyo Marathon was held on 18 February 2007. However, years prior to 2007, Tokyo Marathon actually consisted of two marathons - the Tokyo International Marathon which took place on even years, and Tokyo - New York Friendship International Marathon which took place on odd years. In the inaugural year, 1981, both marathons took place. However, because it was not possible to support two marathons a month apart in the same city, from 1982, the alternating format went into effect.^{[citation needed]}

The 2007 marathon was also a representative selection race of the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka. The total number of participants was set at 30,000. Of that, 25,000 people signed up for the marathon, and 5,000 signed up for the 10K run.

Masakazu Fujiwara became the race's first Japanese male winner at the fourth edition.^[2]

The 2011 Tokyo Marathon was held on Sunday, 27 February 2011. It was the first Tokyo Marathon in which the weather wasn't rainy.

Numbers of applicants and runners

When registrations closed for the 2013 Tokyo marathon 303,450 people had applied for the full marathon, and 1,058 had applied for the 10km race. This gave a total number of around 304,508 applicants and an oversubscription rate of 10.3.^[3]

Course

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building -> Tokyo Imperial Palace -> Hibiya Park (10km Finish) -> Shinagawa -> Ginza -> Nihonbashi -> Asakusa -> Tsukiji -> Tokyo Big Sight (Full Marathon Finish)

Winners

Fun runners finishing the 2012 race

Key:       Course record

Year	Men's winner	Country	Time (m:s)	Women's winner	Country	Time (m:s)
2013	Dennis Kimetto	Kenya	2:06:50	Aberu Kebede	Ethiopia	2:25:34
2012	Michael Kipyego	Kenya	2:07:37	Atsede Habtamu	Ethiopia	2:25:28
2011	Hailu Mekonnen	Ethiopia	2:07:35	Noriko Higuchi [4]	Japan	2:28:49
2010	Masakazu Fujiwara	Japan	2:12:19	Alevtina Biktimirova	Russia	2:34:39
2009	Salim Kipsang	Kenya	2:10:27	Mizuho Nasukawa	Japan	2:25:38
2008	Viktor Röthlin	Switzerland	2:07:23	Claudia Dreher	Germany	2:35:35
2007	Daniel Njenga	Kenya	2:09:45	Hitomi Niiya	Japan	2:31:02

See also

• Tokyo International Marathon
• Tokyo International Women's Marathon

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tokyo Marathon.

• Tokyo Marathon official website
• Tokyo Marathon Write-Up III - registration, training, travel..etc.

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