2021 Tokyo Marathon to be held in October, 2022 race set for March

Next year's Tokyo Marathon will be held on Oct. 17 instead of March as originally planned, while the 2022 event will be staged five months later on March 6, the Tokyo Marathon Foundation announced Friday.Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, this year's race was limited to an elite field of invited runners, but next year's marathon will return to being a mass-participation event with about 38,000 runners.Organizers had hoped to hold next year's race in March but abandoned that plan in view of the current state of coronavirus infections in Japan and the fact that travel from overseas is sti…READ FULL ARTICLE