Beppu Oita Mainichi Marathon in February next year postponed for one year Due to the influence of the new corona, September 23, 18:40
Next year's Beppu Oita Mainichi Marathon, which will be held in February with the participation of top-class athletes in Japan, will be postponed for one year due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
The Beppu Oita Mainichi Marathon is a marathon event in which approximately 3,500 people, including top-class athletes and citizen runners from Japan, participate, and is held every February with the start and finish points in Oita City.
At the February tournament, Misato Michishita, who has been appointed as the representative of the Tokyo Paralympics who participated in the visually impaired class, has set a new world record.
On the 23rd, the Kyushu Athletics Association, which hosts the tournament, held a press conference and announced that the tournament in February next year will be postponed for one year due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
The tournament secretariat also considered holding the event in a form that reduces the number of participating runners, but due to the difficulty in reducing the number of volunteers, which is 2,500, and the fact that the time of the tournament and the time of influenza epidemic overlap. , It means that we decided to postpone it.
This is the first time that the tournament has been postponed since 1952, when the first tournament was held.
Masao Yagi, President of the Kyushu Athletics Association, said, "I'm sorry for the runners who were looking forward to the tournament. The next tournament will be the 70th anniversary tournament, so I'd like to prepare for excitement from now on." I am.