The Tokyo Marathon is an amazing race, and rightly one of the world major marathons. The Japanese people love & respect marathon running and as a nation have an amazing number of elite marathoners. Yesterdays race was won by Kenyan Dickson Chumba in a new race record time of 2:05:42. He beat home Ethiopian Tadese Tola (2:05:57) & compatriot … [Read more...]
2013 Tokyo Marathon preview
February 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The 2013 Tokyo marathon, to be run on Sun 24th Feb, will be the 7th edition of the race, and the first as a member of the prestigious World Marathon Majors. The event has the strongest field assembled yet in what is looking like being a record-breaking race. The men’s field for Sunday’s race includes defending champion, Michael Kipyego (KEN), … [Read more...]
