The course for the men’s and women’s marathon competitions in Sapporo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been set, the organizers announced on Thursday.
Toshiro Muto, CEO of the host committee, said at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday that the International Olympic Committee, World Athletics and Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympics and Paralympics had agreed on it that morning.
The decision was made after officials of the IOC and World Athletics, the sport's global governing body (formerly known as the International Association of Athletics Federations or the IAAF), had held an inspection in Sapporo last Saturday.