{"id":81678,"date":"2013-06-20T11:14:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T02:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=37957"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:57:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:57:39","slug":"kita-q-marathon-applications-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kita-q-marathon-applications-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Kita-Q Marathon Applications Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Applications have opened for the Kitakyushu Marathon – celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kitakyushu City in 2014! Organizers are looking for 10,0000 participants for the marathon happening Feb. 9, 2014. From 6\/24~ applications are open for 2,000 participants who work or study in Kitakyushu City, and from 7\/22 the remaining 8,000 application spots will be open to anyone who wants to join.<\/p>\n

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The full marathon course, which must be completed within 6 hours, starts at Kitakyushu City Hall, following around Kokura castle, turning at Moji port, and finishing at Kitakyushu International Conference Hall. For the \u201cpair marathon\u201d a team of two complete half the marathon each (available only for 100 pairs), and there\u2019s also a 3 or 5km fun run category (1,000 participants only). Participation fee is \u00a510,000. If applications exceed the limit, a draw will decide participants. Organizers expect a \u00a5570,000,000 economic ripple effect from the event. 1968 Mexico Olympics gold medalist, Kenji Kimihara also joins as a guest runner. Official HP: http:\/\/kitakyushu-marathon.jp<\/a>, Course Map: http:\/\/kitakyushu-marathon.jp\/coursemap\/,<\/a> Tel.: 093-533-9323<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Applications have opened for the Kitakyushu Marathon – celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kitakyushu City in 2014! Organizers are looking for 10,0000 participants for the marathon happening Feb. 9, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81678","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81678","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\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}