The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will hear hammer thrower Koji Murofushi’s appeal against his exclusion as a candidate for election to the IOC Athletes’ Commission on April 11 and 12, the CAS said Monday. Taiwan’s Chu Mu-yen, who has also appealed, is ...

The Tokyo Marathon will make its debut as a World Marathon Majors race Sunday with a potential race record in store in the men’s competition. Tokyo joins Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York in the six-legged series contested over a two-year period. The ...

Former world silver medalist Yoshimi Ozaki will retire after running in this month’s Tokyo Marathon. The 31-year-old Ozaki, who finished 19th at last year’s London Olympics, said Saturday she has lost her motivation to compete. The Tokyo Marathon on Feb. 24 will be her ...

Tetyana Gamera-Shmyrko won the Osaka Women’s Marathon on Sunday, improving on her runnerup finish last year with a come-from-behind victory over Japan’s Kayoko Fukushi. The 29-year-old Ukrainian scored a personal-best time of 2 hours, 23 minutes, 58 seconds, cutting the tape 23 seconds ahead ...

Mara Yamauchi, winner of the 2008 Osaka Marathon and an Olympian for Britain, announced Tuesday on her blog that she will retire from racing and resume her career in the foreign service. The 39-year-old Yamauchi, who is married to a Japanese national, has extensive ...

Team ace Tsuyoshi Ugachi surged ahead in the fourth leg to put Konica Minolta in the driver’s seat en route to its first victory in five years at the national corporate ekiden championship on Tuesday. Konica Minolta completed the seven-leg, 100-kilometer road relay in ...