The 2020 Tokyo Marathon ( ja, 東京マラソン2020) was the fourteenth edition of the annual
marathon race in Tokyo, and was held on Sunday, 1 March. A
World Athletics Platinum Label Road Race, it was the first
World Marathon Majors
The World Marathon Majors (WMM) (known for sponsorship reasons as the Abbott World Marathon Majors) is a championship-style competition for marathon runners that started in 2006. A points-based competition founded on six major marathon races reco ...
event held that year. Last year's winner,
Birhanu Legese
Birhanu Legese Gurmesa (born 11 September 1994) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He won the 2019 and 2020 Tokyo Marathon and finished second at the 2019 Berlin Marathon.
Legese is currently part of the NN Running Team, which is managed ...
, successfully defended his title by winning with a time of 2:04:15, while
Lonah Chemtai Salpeter
Lonah Korlima Chemtai Salpeter ( he, לונה צ'מטאי-סלפטר, , born 12 December 1988) is a Kenyan-Israeli runner. She won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. At the European Athletics Championsh ...
set a new course record as well as a new
Israeli national record by winning with a time of 2:17:45. 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.
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2020 marathons
2020 in Tokyo
Tokyo Marathon
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.
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