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Shiso Kanakuri
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Japanese long-distance runner
Key facts
- Native name
- 金栗 四三
- Born
- ( 1891-08-20 ) 20 August 1891, Nagomi, Kumamoto , Japan
- Died
- 13 November 1983 (1983-11-13) (aged 92), Tamana, Kumamoto , Japan
- Height
- 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 64 kg (141 lb)
- Sport
- Marathon
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan
- Place of birth
- Tamana
- Place of death
- Tamana
- Occupation
- teacher
- Employer
- Yokohama National University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Participant in
- 1912 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Japan
- Mass
- 64
- Image
- Shiso Kanaguri 1924.jpg
- Height
- 170
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- date of birth
- 1891-08-20
- date of death
- 1983-11-13
- Commons category
- Shiso Kanaguri
- sports discipline competed in
- marathon
- name in native language
- 金栗 四三
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shiso Kanakuri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.