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　The Tokyo Marathon 2020, which also served as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Japan National Team Selection Meeting “Marathon Grand Championship (MGC) Final Challenge”, was held on March 1 at a course from Tokyo Metropolitan Government to Tokyo Station and Gyoyuki Street. Due to the spread of the new coronavirus, we limited the participation of about 200 elite runner slot players, including last year's tournament champion Birhanu Regse (Ethiopia), who has a self-record of 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 48 seconds. Without the general runners recruited, the scale of the tournament was reduced, such as a review of the number of volunteers, and the event was implemented in an unusual situation amid a request for self-restraint of support along the roadside.

In the vicinity of Nihonbashi, 10 km before, Daihito Inoue and Tsue Osako put them right behind the pacemaker and passed in the lead group.　　　　　　　　　　　　　In the race, Birhanu Regse won the second consecutive victory in 2 hours, 4 minutes, 15 seconds, and Osako won the 4th place of the top Japanese team of 2 hours, 5 minutes and 29 seconds to set his own Japanese record. It became the most promising candidate for the second frame. The final representative will be finalized depending on the results of the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, which will be held on the 8th as the final race of the final challenge.　In addition, Mr. Osako, who has set a new record in Japan, will receive a second bounty of 100 million yen from Project EXCEED, the Japan Business Team Athletics Federation Marathon and Nippon Resurrection Project.