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'Marathon and Race Walk Courses Revealed With One Year to Go to World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25'



https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/tokyo25/news/news/wchtokyo25-marathon-and-race-walk-routes-revealed

The marathon course for next year's Tokyo World Championships was announced today. Essentially just a tweak of the Tokyo Legacy Half Marathon and MGC Race courses based on the original course for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the Worlds route includes an uphill finish and six 180˚ turns, the one at 10 km apparently there in order to make it possible to shoehorn in another one at the finish line of the Tokyo Marathon course in front of Tokyo Station. Apart from the section between Tomihisacho and Ichigaya Mitsuke, down on the way out and up on the way back, it is almost totally flat, a bit of a missed opportunity to make a more challenging course like the one at the Paris Olympics.
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