After moving outside of Tokyo, the new Sapporo course will include three loops.
The course for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic marathon was unveiled Thursday at its new location in Sapporo.
Heat concerns caused the men’s and women’s races to be moved out of the host city in Tokyo to the site of the 1972 Winter Olympics.The Tokyo Olympics marathon course has been unveiled after its move out of the host city to Sapporo,Both the men’s and women’s races will now follow a three-loop course, starting in the city’s famous Odori Park.
Throughout the course, runners will pass landmarks of the city, including Sapporo TV Tower, the Toyohira River , and Hokkaido University, one of Japan’s former imperial universities, originally founded in 1876., which would have taken runners through the city with three hairpin turns on the course before returning to the finish. The elevation profile for that course had only two hills—one that descended roughly 100 meters at the start and then going back up that in the final mile to the finish.
, which takes place on a fairly similar course, the route includes a 5K climb covering 100 feet of elevation before flattening out and not returning to that section for the final two loops. In addition, temperatures will vary drastically from those in Tokyo, with Sapporo expected to be as much as five to six degrees cooler. Tokyo’s temperatures would have been more similar to the summer heat in
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