{"id":139844,"date":"2021-03-31T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=139844&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:33:44","slug":"fukuoka-international-marathon-to-be-discontinued-after-this-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-international-marathon-to-be-discontinued-after-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka International Marathon To Be Discontinued After This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukuoka International Open Marathon will hold its last race in December 2021. Two world records were set at the event that began in 1947 and was awarded World Athletics Heritage status in 2020 to offer one of the fastest marathon routes in the world. However, due to the reduced participation by the world\u2019s top runners, the tournament had faced financial challenges during recent years. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/news\/html\/20210326\/k10012937461000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHK<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkansports.com\/sports\/athletics\/news\/202103260002866.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikkan Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@amutiomi?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-139845\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/miguel-a-amutio-QDv-uBc-poY-unsplash.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/miguel-a-amutio-QDv-uBc-poY-unsplash.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/miguel-a-amutio-QDv-uBc-poY-unsplash.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/miguel-a-amutio-QDv-uBc-poY-unsplash.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/miguel-a-amutio-QDv-uBc-poY-unsplash.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Miguel A. Amutio<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. 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Two world records were set at the event that began in 1947 and was awarded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":139845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-139844","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/139844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}