Just this Sunday (March 6), the 2021 Tokyo Marathon will start, a one-year postponement of the event that brings together a group of the world's top athletes, including men and women's marathon world record holders Kipchoge and Kosgai, and Five Star Sports will also bring you the live broadcast of the 2021 Tokyo Marathon from 8 o'clock on March 6.
The Tokyo Marathon, one of the six Grand Slams, has been postponed to the present due to the impact of the epidemic.
After winning the Olympic marathon gold medal, Kipchoge has also said that he will attack the Olympic triple crown, and before that, he also wants to complete his six Grand Slam gold journey, has won Berlin, Chicago and London, he will also challenge East Malaysia this time, although he has a career of more than 20 years, but in fact, Kipchoge's appearance at the Tokyo Marathon is only his third race in Japan. In addition to winning a brilliant Olympic gold medal in Sapporo last year, his other Japanese participation was at the 2007 Sapporo World Championships, when he was a member of the Bernard Sapporo Championships. Lagart later won the silver medal in the 5000m.
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No one would suspect kipchoge as the biggest hit at the 2021 Tokyo Marathon, but who will be the one to keep up with him?
Riggs, who is third in the world, may be a popular candidate, and as the defending champion of East Malaysia for two consecutive years, Riggs knows the track of the Tokyo Marathon very well. Especially in that 2019 race, he performed well on extremely cold and rainy days.
Of course, there is also Kengo Suzuki, the Japanese national record holder who fights on home, if he can still maintain or break the 2:04:56 result, although it is difficult to win the championship, it should not be a problem to refresh his best in the six majors.
Of course, we can't ignore the women's race, the women's marathon world record holder Kosgai will also appear in Tokyo, in addition, Tanui will also participate, she won last year's Amsterdam Marathon. Asasuke Ichiyama, who married Kengo Suzuki at the end of last year, will also compete, and Asao Ichiyama won the Nagoya Women's Marathon in March 2020, taking japan's last Tokyo Olympics place, and in the Nagoya race, she won the championship with a staggering 2:20:29 result. At last year's Olympic marathon, she experienced the test of high temperature and heat on her home, and finally achieved a good result of eighth place, and was also the best performer among the Japanese women's athletes.
Kosgai
The stars are high, and they will also start tokyo together this weekend. Five Star Sports will also bring you a live broadcast of the 2021 Tokyo Marathon from March 6 at 8 am, so please lock in.