That is the discharge of World Sports activities Communications on the announcement of Sifan Hassan working the 2024 Tokyo Marathon, to be held on 3 March 2024.
London and Chicago marathon winner Sifan Hassan set to make Tokyo Marathon debut.
Double Olympic champion Sifan Hassan will proceed her 42.2km journey on the seventeenth version of the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday third, March 2024, aiming to proceed a record-breaking begin to life over the gap.
The Dutch athlete had a spectacular introduction to the marathon, beating what’s broadly considered the most effective feminine area ever assembled on debut in London in April earlier than setting the second-fastest time in historical past to take the Chicago title in 2:13:44 in October. That efficiency will depart the two-time World Champion on the monitor nicely positioned for an assault on the two:16:02 course report in Tokyo, held by Brigid Kosgei from 2022.
Hassan is raring to return to town the place she gained 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic gold in 2021, saying:
“I’m so excited to announce my participation in my subsequent marathon. I really feel Tokyo is the proper preparation for the Paris Olympic Video games as a result of I’ve nice Olympic recollections within the metropolis of Tokyo, and I really feel I can gas my Olympic hearth there. Within the streets of Tokyo, I will likely be seeking to proceed my marathon journey. I need to study from each marathon since each marathon is completely different, and I can’t wait to come back to Tokyo.”
Photograph: Bob Martin for London Marathon Occasions, picture ©TCS London Marathon
The World Marathon main course sees athletes begin by the Tokyo Metropolitan Authorities Constructing within the west of the Japanese capital, taking within the metropolis’s wealthy sights, earlier than ending by the long-lasting Imperial Palace within the heart of the metropolis.
Hassan has displayed unimaginable vary this 12 months, successful the World 1500m bronze in Budapest alongside 5000m silver, all while educating her physique to coach over the longer distance. The European marathon report holder may have an enviable option to make over what occasions to decide on in Paris, with the Olympic girls’s marathon to happen on eleventh August after a testing monitor schedule.
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