2020_Tokyo_Marathon

2020 Tokyo Marathon

2020 Tokyo Marathon

Marathon race in Tokyo, Japan

The 2020 Tokyo Marathon (Japanese: 東京マラソン2020) was the 14th edition of the annual marathon race in Tokyo, and was held on Sunday, 1 March. A World Athletics Platinum Label Road Race,[1] it was the first World Marathon Majors event held that year. The prior year's men's winner, Ethiopian Birhanu Legese, successfully defended his title by winning with a time of 2:04:15. In the women's marathon Israeli Lonah Chemtai Salpeter set a new course record, breaking the old one by over two minutes, as well as a new Israeli national record by winning with a time of 2:17:45; the sixth-fastest women's marathon in the world of all time.[2][3][4][5]

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The men's wheelchair race was won by Japanese racer Tomoki Suzuki, and the women's wheelchair race was won by Japanese racer Tsubasa Kina, both setting course records in their victory.[6][7][8] Women's winner Tsubasa Kina also went on to win the following year's 2021 Tokyo Marathon

References

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    "World Athletics Label Road Races". worldathletics.org. 8 March 2020. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
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    "Birhanu Legese and Lonah Chemtai Salpeter win Tokyo Marathon". Athletics Weekly. 1 March 2020.
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    "東京マラソン リーダーボード(速報)". Leaderboard.marathon.tokyo. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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    "Twitter". Mobile.twitter.com. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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    "Twitter". Mobile.twitter.com. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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    "Athletics: Legese wins virus-affected Tokyo Marathon, nat'l rec for Osako". Kyodo News. 1 March 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
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    "Lonah Salpeter shatters Tokyo Marathon course record". Running Magazine. 1 March 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
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    "Suzuki wins men's and Kina wins women's, both setting new course record! (Tokyo Marathon 2020 Wheelchair Marathon Race Report)". www.marathon.tokyo/. Retrieved 8 January 2024.


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