A refugee athlete has been selected as an elite runner for the Tokyo Marathon for the first time in the event’s history. Yonas Kinde, who currently lives in Luxembourg, will take part in the marathon ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympics organizers approved the new route for the Tokyo 2020 marathon on Thursday, after the race was moved to the northern Japanese city of Sapporo earlier this year due to heat ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The women's marathon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and all the race walks have been rescheduled, following the controversial decision taken in October to move the events out of the ...

TOKYO — The route for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics marathon was announced Thursday with the main feature being a steep incline to finish the race at the newly built Olympic stadium. The route will pass ...

STORY: The Olympic marathon and race walking events during Tokyo 2020 will be moved to Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from originally planned courses in the capital due to worries about heat, ...

The decision to move the Tokyo 2020 marathon and race-walking events to northern Japan is "final", the International Olympic Committee's John Coates said Friday despite opposition from local officials ...

At 3am Kenyan time tomorrow, global stars will have gathered for this year's first World Marathon Major in Tokyo, Japan. And by 3:10am, the start gun will be fired and Eliud Kipchoge - a legendary ...

Elite men's race winner Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge (L) and elite women's race winner Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot pose during the trophy ceremony of the 2018 London Marathon in central London on April 22, ...