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Shizo Kanakuri

1891 - 1983

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Shizo Kanakuri (金栗 四三, Kanaguri Shisō; 20 August 1891 – 13 November 1983) was a Japanese marathon runner celebrated as the "father of marathon" in Japan. He holds the Guinness World Record for the longest time to complete a marathon with a time of 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds—Kanakuri retired from the men's marathon event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics without informing the authorities, but Sveriges Television gave him the opportunity to complete his marathon in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shizo Kanakuri is the 126th most popular athlete (down from 79th in 2019), the 757th most popular biography from Japan (down from 609th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 126 out of 6,025. Before him are Li Hong, Ed Ablowich, William Porter, Klaus Wolfermann, Ed Gordon, and Henrik Sjöberg. After him are Esther Brand, Eric Lemming, Don Thompson, Mihaela Peneș, Oscar Swahn, and Robert Garrett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 96. Before him are Damaskinos of Athens, Antoine Pinay, Scott Bradley, Charles Munch, Julius Raab, and Diana Budisavljević. After him are Danilo Ilić, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Maria Skobtsova, Fred Kelly, Carl W. Stalling, and Carl Jacob Burckhardt. Among people deceased in 1983, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 80. Before him are Ivan Vinogradov, Salo Flohr, Josep Lluís Sert, Ralph Richardson, Tino Rossi, and Artemio Franchi. After him are Marcel Dalio, Eric Hoffer, Louison Bobet, Joan Robinson, Bernard Vukas, and Hennes Weisweiler.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 757 out of 6,245. Before him are Kitaro Nishida (1870), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Shigeru Ban (1957), Kazumi Tsubota (1956), and Takasugi Shinsaku (1839). After him are Keigo Higashino (1958), Hōjō Ujimasa (1538), Toyohito Mochizuki (1953), Jiro Taniguchi (1947), Prince Yasuhiko Asaka (1887), and Nobuko Kondo (1956).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 1. After him are Naoto Tajima (1912), Mikio Oda (1905), Sueo Ōe (1914), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Noboru Terada (1917), Isao Okano (1944), Shuhei Nishida (1910), Kinue Hitomi (1907), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Masanori Yusa (1915), and Masaru Furukawa (1936).

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