2020 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	?? Athletes from ?? Countries
Competition location	Ōdōri Park
Competition phase	August 9, 2020
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The marathon men at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will take place on 9 August. Originally the start and finish should be in the newly built Olympic Stadium and the route should lead through the Imperial Palace Garden . After several athletes had health problems at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha due to the climatic conditions, the IOC announced in October 2019 that it would move the marathons and competitions in the cooler Sapporo to Hokkaidō at the games . The new venue is now Ōdōri Park .

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Eliud Kipchoge ( Kenya )	2:08:44 h	Rio de Janeiro 2016
World Champion	Lelisa Desisa ( Ethiopia )	2:10:40 h	Doha 2019
European champion	Koen Naert ( Belgium )	2:09:51 h	Berlin 2018
North / Central America / Caribbean champions	Competition not in the championship program		Toronto 2018
South America champion	Competition not in the championship program		Lima 2019
Asian champion	Competition not in the championship program		Doha 2019
African champions			Algiers 2020
Oceania Champion	Competition not in the championship program		Townsville 2019

Existing records

World record	Eliud Kipchoge ( Kenya )	2:01:39 h	Berlin	16th September 2018
Olympic record	Samuel Wanjiru ( Kenya )	2:06:32 h	Beijing Marathon , China	August 24, 2008

Result

August 9, 2020, 7:00 a.m. (11:00 p.m. CET)

Web links

• Athletics on the Tokyo 2020 official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ryusei Takahashi: Tokyo Gov. Koike gives up fighting IOC's decision to move Olympic marathon to Sapporo. The Japan Times , November 1, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .