The 2015

Tokyo Marathon The is an annual marathon sporting event in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. It is a World Athletics Platinum Label marathon and one of the six World Marathon Majors. The latest edition of the race took place on . It is sponsored by Tokyo Metro. H ...

( ja, 東京マラソン 2015) was the ninth edition of the annual

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race in

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, Japan and was held on Sunday, 22 February. An

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, it was the first

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event to be held that year and represented the third occasion that the Tokyo race was part of the elite-level marathon series. 2015 Tokyo Marathon fun runner

The elite race winners were both from Ethiopia – the first such time that athletes from the same nation won the men's and women's division. Endeshaw Negesse was just over twenty seconds off the course record with 2:06:00 hours while Berhane Dibaba took the women's title in 2:23:15. It was the first major marathon win for both athletes, although Berhane Dibaba had been runner-up in Tokyo the previous year. The reigning Olympic and world champion Stephen Kiprotich was runner-up in the men's race and

Dickson Chumba Dickson Kiptolo Chumba (born 27 October 1986) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. He has won the Rome, Eindhoven, Tokyo, and Chicago marathons and has a personal best of 2:04:32 for the distance. Career Born in Kenya' ...

was third, failing to defend his title. The women's podium was rounded out by Helah Kiprop (2014 winner of the

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) and reigning Olympic champion

Tiki Gelana Erba Tiki Gelana ( am, ኧርባ ቲኪ ገላና; born 22 October 1987) is an Ethiopian professional long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. Her personal best of 2:18:58 had been the Ethiopian national record for the event from 2012 ...

. The 2014 women's champion,

Tirfi Tsegaye Tirfi Tsegaye Beyene (born 25 November 1984) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. She has won the Berlin Marathon, the Paris Marathon (in a course record), the Tokyo Marathon (also in course-record time), and th ...

did not return to defend her title. The fastest home athletes both finished in seventh position overall: Masato Imai in the men's and

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in the women's division.Nakamura, Ken (2015-02-22)
Ethiopian duo Negesse and Dibaba win at the 2015 Tokyo Marathon
IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-02-23. As in the previous year, the

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was principally a national affair.

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defended her title while Kota Hokinoue—winner at the

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—won the men's wheelchair race for the first time.

Results

Elite men

;Other notable performers * Ryo Yamamoto: 17th, 2:12:46 * Yuki Sato: 20th, 2:14:15 *

Arata Fujiwara is a Japanese marathon runner. At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics held in Berlin, Germany, Fujiwara finished 61st in the men's marathon in a time of two hours, thirty-one minutes and ten seconds. He represented Japan at the 2012 S ...

: 37th, 2:19:40

Elite women

Men's wheelchair

2015 Tokyo Marathon - leading wheelchair men

Women's wheelchair

References

;Race results
Results 2015 Tokyo Marathon Man
. Tokyo Marathon. Retrieved on 2015-02-23.
Results 2015 Tokyo Marathon Woman
. Tokyo Marathon. Retrieved on 2015-02-23.
Results マラソン車いす男子／Marathon:Wheelchair(Men)
. Tokyo Marathon. Retrieved on 2015-02-23.
Results マラソン車いす女子／Marathon:Wheelchair(Women)
. Tokyo Marathon. Retrieved on 2015-02-23.

External links

Official websiteParticipation data
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