Fukuoka marathon, held in Fukuoka (Japan), is a prominent international marathon race started in 1947. A sponsor is Asahi Shimbun which is the newspaper publishing company most famous for Japan. Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution, is the pioneer of No Till grain growing (see also permaculture) Fukuoka is also the name of two towns in Japan, Fukuoka, Toyama (in Toyama Prefecture) and Fukuoka, Gifu (in Gifu Prefecture) Central Fukuoka View of Momochi, Fukuoka. ... Although marathon sometimes refers to any athletic event requiring great endurance, more specifically it refers to a long-distance track event of 42,195 m (26 miles and 385 yards). ... Asahi Shimbun (朝日新聞; Asahi Shinbun) is a national leading newspaper in Japan. ...
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Because of consistent finish in the medals by marathon runners from Great Britain in major championships (Hill and Jim Alder were first and third in the 1969 European Championships; they were top two in the 1970 British Commonwealth Games), Britain was considered as a premier marathon powerhouse at the time.
For each year since 1966, inaugural year of the Fukuokamarathon, top two finishers of this prestigious marathon were ranked as the top two marathon runners of the year by the Track and Field News.
However, in 1970 the top two finishers of the 1970 Fukuokamarathon, Akio Usami and Kenny Moore were ranked second and third respectively behind Ron Hill by the Track and Field News.
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