Tokyo Marathon

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1. Story
2. The youngest of the Majors and the first outside Europe and North America. It was first run on 18 February 2007, replacing the elite men-only Tokyo International Marathon that had been held since 1981 and consolidating it with a mass public race; Daniel Njenga and Hitomi Niiya were the first winners. It joined the World Marathon Majors for the 2013 series, its first race as a Major being on 24 February 2013. The course starts outside the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku and, since a redesign first used in 2017, finishes near Tokyo Station on Gyoko-dori rather than on the hilly, exposed waterfront leg it used before. The redesign cut turns and gradient and made the course markedly faster while keeping it inside the record-eligibility limits — a rare case of a city rebuilding its race explicitly to produce fast times.
3. Knowledge
4. Record-eligible road course criteria
5. Tokyo Marathon
6. Tokyo
7. Abbott World Marathon Majors
8. Connections
9. The mass-participation city marathon
10. Record-eligible road course criteria
11. Tokyo
12. Abbott World Marathon Majors
13. The first Tokyo Marathon
14. Tokyo becomes the sixth Major
15. Tokyo redesigns its course for speed
16. World Athletics
17. Boston Marathon
18. Tokyo Marathon
19. Tokyo redesigns its course for speed
20. Tokyo Marathon
21. The first Tokyo Marathon
22. Tokyo redesigns its course for speed
23. Boston Marathon
24. London Marathon
25. Berlin Marathon
26. Chicago Marathon
27. New York City Marathon
28. Tokyo Marathon
29. The World Marathon Majors series is announced
30. Tokyo becomes the sixth Major
31. Sydney runs its first race as the seventh Major
32. Cape Town is confirmed as the eighth Major
33. Cape Town scheduled to run as a Major
34. Evidence
35. From 2017 the Tokyo Marathon kept its start at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building but replaced the final waterfront section with a finish at Gyoko-dori beside Tokyo Station, changing roughly 13 to 14 km of the course and reducing turns and gradient; the race was first held on 18 February 2007, replacing the Tokyo International Marathon. V55 verification basis: read through attributed search summaries of the organiser announcement and Japan Running News coverage.
36. On 23 January 2006 the Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York City marathons announced the World Marathon Majors, launched at the 110th Boston Marathon on 17 April 2006 with a points-based series and a one-million-dollar purse; Tokyo joined for the 2013 series. V55 verification basis: read through an attributed search summary of the announcement and of the 2012 accession release.