IOC, World Athletics and Tokyo 2020 agree on revised event schedule and a legacy-focused 20 km-loop course for the first half of marathon in Sapporo Odori Park.
The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Sapporo Odori Park in Hokkaido was approved by the International Olympic Committee as the venue for marathon and race walk events at an IOC Executive Board meeting held in Lausanne, Switzerland. This followed confirmation from World Athletics.