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) - There is no plan to change the location of the Olympic marathon from the northern island of Hokkaido even with the delay of the Games to next year, the president of the Tokyo 2020 ...

Early Thursday morning, Molly Seidel, the Tokyo Olympic marathon bronze medalist, announced her withdrawal from the U.S. Olympic Trials on Saturday in Orlando, citing a broken patella and a partially ...

Emily Sisson‘s first attempt to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics didn’t pan out. On February 29, 2020, Sisson competed at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta. It was only her second ...

MONACO (AP) — Former Tokyo Marathon runner-up Tsehay Gemechu was banned for four years because of suspected blood doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Thursday. The 25-year-old Ethiopian also was ...

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's governor insisted Wednesday she still wants to see the Olympic marathon held in the capital next year, despite plans to move the event to northern Japan over heat concerns. The location of the ...

Foreign athletes may not be able to take part in the World Athletics Continental Tour meeting scheduled for Tokyo on May 9, which is doubling up as the track and field test event for the re-scheduled ...