The Tokyo Olympics and the men's marathon on land start at 7:00 am.
It is held on a course that arrives and departs from Sapporo Odori Park in the center of Sapporo.
We will keep you updated on the progress of the race.
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1 km point.
The head of the large group passed at a rather slow pace of around 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
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race started at 7:00 am.
Three players from Japan, Shogo Nakamura, Yuma Hattori, and Suguru Osako, are participating.
Before the race, as of 6:50 am, the weather conditions are 25.9 degrees Celsius and 81 percent humidity.
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From Japan, Shogo Nakamura and Yuma Hattori, who were selected as representatives of the 2019 Marathon Grand Championship, and Osako, who set the Japanese record at the Tokyo Marathon last year. Three of the great players will participate.
As a measure against the heat wave, the venue was moved from Tokyo to Sapporo at the suggestion of the IOC = International Olympic Committee, but the hot days continue in Sapporo, and it seems that the measures against the heat of the athletes will be the key.
The course in Sapporo is flat unlike the course in Tokyo where there was an uphill at the end, and the first lap is a large loop of 20 km, and the second and third laps are anomalous loops of 10 km. It will be held on a lap course.
Among them, the campus of Hokkaido University, where I will go three times, seems to be a starting point for the game because the small cranks continue and it becomes difficult to see the previous player, and in the women's race there was a sieving around here.
Nakamura, who is strong against the heat of summer, Hattori, who is familiar with the running course at the test tournament, and Osako, who has announced his intention to retire from active duty in this race, set a world record of 2 hours and 1 minute. We are paying attention to what kind of battle we will challenge to the world's strongest players such as Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya.