Kobe Marathon

Kobe Marathon
Kobe Marathon
	Sannomiya start point
Date	November
Location	Kobe, Japan
Event type	Road
Distance	Marathon
Primary sponsor	Sysmex
Established	2011
Course records	Men: 2:08:46 (2019); Geofrey Kusuro; Women: 2:27:39 (2019) ; Haruka Yamaguchi
Official site	Kobe Marathon
Participants	19,448 (2019); 19,569 (2018)

The Kobe Marathon (神戸マラソン, Kōbe Marason) is an annual marathon sporting event for men and women over the classic distance of 42.195 kilometres which is held in mid November in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

Before of race start of first edition 2011, a stone monument was unveiled to commemorate the first ever marathon held in Japan, the Marathon Great Race held in Kobe on March 21, 1909.

History

The race was first held in 2011.

The 2020 edition of the race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all registrants automatically receiving full refunds.^[1]

Course

The race begins in front of Kobe City Hall, passes through Takatori district, and after crossing and turning around in the West side of Akashi Kaikyo Bridge heads for to Komagayashi / Wada Cape area, where the finish line is located near the citizen's square of Port Island.

Winners

Key: Course record

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's winner	Time (h:m:s)
1st	2011	Takuya Nakayama (JPN)	2:24:13	Satoko Uetani (JPN)	2:40:45
2nd	2012	Kensuke Takahashi (JPN)	2:21:13	Yui Ouchi (JPN)	2:39:52
3rd	2013	Hironori Arai (JPN)	2:17:01	Chihiro Tanaka (JPN)	2:36:53
4th	2014	Harun Malel (KEN)	2:13:45	Hiromi Saitô (JPN)	2:38:24
5th	2015	Tadashi Suzuki (JPN)	2:18:01	Yuri Sugiyama (JPN)	2:42:01
6th	2016	Morris Mwangi (KEN)	2:22:31	Jacqueline Kiplimo (KEN)	2:40:07
7th	2017	Khalil Lemciyeh (MAR)	2:12:42	Maegan Krifchin (USA)	2:33:14
8th	2018	Khalil Lemciyeh (MAR)	2:13:54	Susan Jerotich (KEN)	2:31:38
9th	2019	Geofrey Kusuro (UGA)	2:08:46	Haruka Yamaguchi (JPN)	2:27:39
	2020	cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic^[1]