The Tokyo International Women's Marathon was a

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for female elite runners held in

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from 1979 until 2008 in November. It was first held in November 1979, and this race was the first women's marathon officially sanctioned by the

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(IAAF). After Adriaan Paulen, the IAAF president, watched this event, he announced his support for the women's Marathon to be included in the

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. After the 30th edition the organisers (

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(JAAF),

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and

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) discontinued the race, because the new

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held since 2007 is open for general runners of both sexes and Metropolitan Police Department deemed it difficult to care for two different city marathons within one year. The place of the Tokyo Women's Marathon in the Japanese race calendar was taken by the

Yokohama Women's Marathon The Yokohama Women's Marathon was a marathon held in Yokohama, Japan, and hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations, TV Asahi, the Asahi Shimbun. It is one of the major Japanese women's marathon races which is used to decide selection fo ...

whose first edition was held on November 15, 2009.

Winners

Key:

References

;Winners list
Tokyo Women's Marathon at ''arrs.run''

External links

(English version)

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