The Osaka-Lake Biwa Marathon (大阪マラソン, Osaka Marathon) is an annual marathonroad running event for elite and non-elite men and non-elite women over the classic distance of 42.195 kilometres which is held in late October in the city of Osaka, Japan. There is also a "challenge run" with a distance of 8.8km.[1] In 2019 edition of the race, a new race course was introduced where it starts near to and finishes at the Osaka Castle Park. [2]
Men: Old course - 2:11:43 (2014) Jackson Limo New course - 2:07:31 (2022) Gaku Hoshi Women: Old course - 2:31:19 (2018) Soud Kanbouchia New course - 2:26:29 (2019) Aberu Mekuria
The event is jointly hosted by the Japan Association of Athletics Federations and Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese national newspaper. The first edition took place on October 30, 2011. In total, 27161 runners started the marathon race and of these 26175 finished the full distance.[3]
In 2022, an organisational change by JAAF meant the race was merged into the Lake Biwa Marathon.[5] The elite men's race is now the Lake Biwa Marathon.
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