Tokyo Marathon Limits Participants to Elite Runners Over Coronavirus

Participants run during the Tokyo Marathon in the Japanese capital on March 3, 2019. Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images

Tokyo Marathon organizers are greatly reducing the number of participants in the annual event in an effort to prevent the spread of Novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19.

In an announcement on Monday, organizers said they were limiting the marathon for elite and wheelchair elite participants only.