{"id":52475,"date":"2024-07-21T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/gil24-tv-shizo-kanakuri-a-japanese-marathon-runner-holds-a-unique-record-in-the-annals-of-olympic-history\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T12:13:01","slug":"gil24-tv-shizo-kanakuri-a-japanese-marathon-runner-holds-a-unique-record-in-the-annals-of-olympic-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/gil24-tv-shizo-kanakuri-a-japanese-marathon-runner-holds-a-unique-record-in-the-annals-of-olympic-history\/","title":{"rendered":"GIL24-TV Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese marathon runner, holds a unique record in the annals of Olympic history."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"gil24-yt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OnBWwucvn7g\" data-yt=\"OnBWwucvn7g\" aria-label=\"\u062a\u0634\u063a\u064a\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u064a\u062f\u064a\u0648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/OnBWwucvn7g\/hqdefault.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" title=\"GIL24-TV Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese marathon runner, holds a unique record in the annals of Olympic history.\u63d2\u56fe\" alt=\"GIL24-TV Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese marathon runner, holds a unique record in the annals of Olympic history.\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><span class=\"gil24-play\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese marathon runner, holds a unique record in the annals of Olympic history. He started a marathon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and finished it 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes, and 20.3 seconds later! <\/p>\n<p>In 1912, Kanakuri, already a record holder with a time of 2 hours, 32 minutes, and 45 seconds in a 40-km marathon, embarked on the Olympic marathon. <\/p>\n<p>However, due to a combination of challenging circumstances, including a grueling journey to Sweden, caring for a sick teammate, and extreme heat on race day, he collapsed midway. <\/p>\n<p>Choosing to return home without notifying officials, Kanakuri&#8217;s marathon remained unfinished. It wasn&#8217;t until 1967, when he was invited back to Stockholm by Swedish Television, that he finally completed his marathon. <\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cAlong the way, I got married, had 6 children and 10 grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese marathon runner, holds a unique record in the annals of Olympic history. He started a marathon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and finished it 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes, and 20.3 seconds later! In 1912, Kanakuri, already a record holder with a time of 2 hours, 32 minutes, and 45 seconds in a 40-km marathon, embarked on the Olympic marathon. However, due to a combination of challenging circumstances, including a grueling journey to Sweden, caring for a sick teammate, and extreme heat on race day, he collapsed midway. Choosing to return home without notifying officials, Kanakuri&;s marathon remained unfinished. It wasn&;t until 1967, when he was invited back to Stockholm by Swedish Television, that he finally completed his marathon. He said, \u201cAlong the way, I got married, had 6 children and 10 grandchildren.\u201d [&;]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2902117990186808_510772078941962":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_gil24_duration":"","_gil24_video_url":"","_gil24_author_name":"","_gil24_author_photo":"","_gil24_column":"","_gil24_author_bio":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gil24-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gil24.com\/360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}