Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa won the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday, using a late burst of speed to break away from Dickson Chumba inside the final 2 km to cross the line for his first major marathon win.
Lilesa and Chumba got separation from the leading pack around the 30-km mark, breaking away from a group of seven that had been out in front from early in the race, but it was Lilesa who had the stronger final kick, taking the win in 2 hours, 6 minutes and 56 seconds.
Chumba, a Kenyan who won the Tokyo Marathon in 2014, eventually fell to third when his countryman Bernard Kiprop Kipyego passed him just meters before the line. Chumba would have shared the Abbott World Marathon Majors title with Eliud Kipchoge with a first-place finish.