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Close ✕Tokyo Marathon
The youngest of the Majors and the first outside Europe and North America.
35.7, 139.7 · route · 2007 – present, annual
On the world
- A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places
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- located in Tokyo — The course runs from Shinjuku across central Tokyo to a finish near Tokyo Station.
- is influenced of The mass-participation city marathon — Tokyo replaced an elite men-only race with a mass public event in 2007, adopting a form invented three decades earlier and a continent away.
- constrained by Record-eligible road course criteria — The 2017 redesign had to make the course faster while keeping its net drop inside the 1 m per km limit, which bounded how much gradient it could take.
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