Kyoto Marathon

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| image = Kyoto Marathon logo, 2017.jpg

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| date = Third Sunday in February

| location = Kyoto, Japan

| type = Road

| distance = Marathon

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| est = 2012

| record = Men: 2:14:15
{{flagicon|JPN}} Yuma Morii (2024)
Women: 2:45:15
{{flagicon|JPN}} Yuria Ikuno (2017)

| homepage = {{URL|https://www.kyoto-marathon.com/|Kyoto Marathon}}

| participants = 13,894 (2020)

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The {{Nihongo|Kyoto Marathon|京都マラソン|Kyōto Marason}} is an annual marathon sporting event for men and women over the classic distance of 42.195 kilometres which is held in mid February in Kyoto, Japan. The course starts at Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium and pass through Kyoto Botanical Gardens and the right bank of Kamo river and finishes near Heian Jingu. It was one of the top ten most expensive of the world's biggest marathons by entry cost in 2015.{{Cite news|title = Running costs: what are the world's most expensive marathons?|url = https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/datablog/2015/mar/17/running-costs-what-are-the-worlds-most-expensive-marathons|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 17 March 2015}}

An event with the same name was held from 1969 to 1982.{{Cite news|title = Sakamoto Wins Marathon|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/10/archives/sakamoto-wins-marathon.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = February 10, 1975}}

Results

Key: {{legend2|#A9F5A9|Course record|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}

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Edition

!Date

!Men's winner

!Time (h:m:s)

!Women's winner

!Time (h:m:s)

1st

|11 March 2012

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Junichi Ushiyama|JPN}}

|2:26:21

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Reiko Kobayashi|JPN}}

|2:48:47

2nd

|10 March 2013

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Shingo Igarashi|JPN}}

|2:20:30

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Reiko Kobayashi|JPN}}

|2:49:06

3rd

|16 February 2014

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Hiroki Yokoyama|JPN}}

|2:25:18

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Yukari Nomura|JPN}}

|2:49:10

4th

|15 February 2015

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Hiroki Yokoyama|JPN}}

|2:21:14

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Ai Furukubo|JPN}}

|2:45:30

5th

|21 February 2016

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Daisuke Uekado|JPN}}

|2:17:54

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Hisayo Matsumoto|JPN}}

|2:50:41

6th

|19 February 2017

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Kosuke Murasashi|JPN}}

|2:20:32

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Yuria Ikuno|JPN}}

|bgcolor=#A9F5A9|2:45:15

7th

|18 February 2018

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Shunsuke Hisamoto|JPN}}

|2:23:44

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Izumi Nakajima|JPN}}

|2:51:57

8th

|17 February 2019

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Tatsuya Maruyama|JPN}}

|2:16:27

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Risa Shinozaki|JPN}}

|2:51:40

9th

|16 February 2020

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Yūji Shibukawa|JPN}}

|2:21:48

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Chiaki Omae|JPN}}

|2:45:25

10th

|19 February 2023

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Yudai Fukuda|JPN}}

|2:19:39

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Mikiko Ota|JPN}}

|2:48:57

11th

|18 February 2024

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Yuma Morii|JPN}}

|bgcolor=#A9F5A9|2:14:15

|align=left|{{flagathlete|Fuka Hirokawa|JPN}}

|2:47:22

Kyoto Marathon (1969–1982)

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|+ Winners

EditionDateAthleteCountryTimeclass="unsortable" | Notes
style="text-align: center;" | 1March 9, 1969Seiji Fukada{{JPN}}2:17:43.8
style="text-align: center;" | 2February 8, 1970Kokichi Uchino{{JPN}}2:16:55.8
style="text-align: center;" | 3February 7, 1971Hayami Tanimura{{JPN}}2:13:45.2Course record
style="text-align: center;" | 4February 6, 1972Susumu Sato{{JPN}}2:17:37
style="text-align: center;" | 5February 5, 1973Jack Foster{{NZL}}2:14:53.4
style="text-align: center;" | 6February 3, 1974Matti Vuorenmaa{{FIN}}2:15:10.8
style="text-align: center;" | 7February 9, 1975Mineteru Sakamoto{{JPN}}2:17:15.4
style="text-align: center;" | 8February 8, 1976Hatsuo Okubo{{JPN}}2:16:50.2
style="text-align: center;" | 9February 13, 1977Bill Rodgers{{USA}}2:14:26.2
style="text-align: center;" | 10February 12, 1978David Chettle{{AUS}}2:16:00.4
style="text-align: center;" | 11February 11, 1979Masahiko Furuta{{JPN}}2:18:08.2
style="text-align: center;" | 12February 10, 1980Kazuo Takatori{{JPN}}2:15:23
style="text-align: center;" | 13February 15, 1981Koshiro Kawaguchi{{JPN}}2:18:14
style="text-align: center;" | 14February 11, 1982Masahiko Furuta{{JPN}}2:17:582nd victory

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