The Tokyo Marathon 2013 will be added as the 6th member of the World Marathon Majors (WMM) after Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York and will kick off the 2013 WMM series on 24 February followed by Boston on 15 April, London on 21 April, Berlin on 29 September, Chicago in October and New York in November.
The Tokyo Marathon has been one of the world's largest mass marathon races and is currently attracting about 300,000 runners for the 36,000 slots at the Start with about 10% foreigners.
The Tokyo course records of 2:07:23 for men and 2:25:28 for women are currently held by Viktor Rothlin of Switzerland in 2008 and Atsede Habtamu of Ethiopia in 2012 respectively
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