The Marathon Road Museum aims to inspire people with the values and ideals of Olympism and presents to the public the most well-traveled symbol of sport – the Olympic torches! The most recognized Olympic symbol that carries the message of peace around the world! The exhibits are donated by: Kou Soosuk Lim (Ambassador of South…
An Olympic journey… the spirit of the Olympic Games through the posters of the largest world sporting event.
Since 2004, the museum has housed a permanent exhibition of photographs of the Olympic Marathons. The exhibition is donated by the Olympic Museum of Lausanne to the Municipality of Marathon.
A unique sports collection (medals and sports material) of International Marathons.Nowadays, more than 800 marathons are held annually worldwide, with the vast majority being amateur runners running for experience or for charity. The biggest marathons can have tens of thousands of participants.
One of the Museum’s most important exhibits is the medal of the winner of the first Olympic Marathon in Athens in 1896, Spyros Louis. His diploma for his participation in the race, the “fezaki” hat of the traditional Greek uniform he always wore. Copy of the cup awarded to him and sported by Michel Breal.…
Stefano Baldini (born 25 May 1971 in Castelnovo di Sotto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) is a retired Italian runner who specialised in the marathon. He was the Olympic champion in Athens in 2004 and was twice European champion (1998 and 2006). Baldini was also a world champion in the half marathon, taking the title in Palma de…
Mizuki Noguchi (野口 みずき, Noguchi Mizuki, born July 3, 1978) is a Japanese professional long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon event. She is an Olympic champion over the distance. Initially starting out as a track and cross country athlete, her first major success was becoming the Asian cross country champion at age 21. She…
Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima (born 4 July 1969) is a Brazilian retired long-distance runner. He was born in Cruzeiro do Oeste, Paraná. While leading the marathon after 35 km (22 mi) at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was attacked on the course by Irish former priest Cornelius “Neil” Horan. Following the incident, Lima fell from…
Naoko Takahashi (高橋 尚子, Takahashi Naoko, born May 6, 1972) is a retired Japanese long-distance runner and Olympic gold medal-winning marathoner. She won the gold medal in the marathon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and at the 2001 Berlin Marathon she became the first woman to complete a marathon in under 2 hours and 20…
Yuko Arimori (有森 裕子, Arimori Yūko, born December 17, 1966, in Okayama) is a Japanese professional marathon runner and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Arimori competed for Japan in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the marathon where she won the silver medal with a time of…
