With the cancellation of the Tokyo Marathon, many runners chasing their six stars will be waiting at least another year to complete the challenge.
has completed five of the six and lacks only Berlin, which she was planning to run this year until she broke her ankle two weeks before the race. “My goal of getting a WMM 6-star medal became a goal of healing,” she wrote on Instagram.began 13 years ago, with five races in 2006. But it was conceived as a competition for elite runners.
For a brief period in 2016, WMM would mail out the Six Star medal to people who had completed all six races. But at the 2016, officials started handing them out at the finish line, and other runners noticed their peers who were wearing two medals around their necks—one for finishing the race, the other for finishing the series.
But American runners aren’t eligible for tour groups, which means qualifying or running for charities are the only two routes in. Anecdotally, many observers believe the pursuit of the Six Star medal is driving up the fundraising requirements for Boston runners, as runners promise ever greater sums for nonprofits in exchange for entry.After Boston, according to Wang, London is the most difficult to get into for American runners, followed by Tokyo, New York, Berlin, and Chicago.
Jenni Keagbine, 55, of Portland, Oregon, began running when her son Danny was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in 2009, and she ran several marathons for cancer charities. Danny died in 2011, and she kept running and fundraising. She ran two majors apiece in 2017, 2018, and 2019, finishing her final major, London, on what would have been Danny’s 29th birthday.
“It was incredibly special,” he said. “This has been 13 years in the making. I’ve been obsessing about this day for 13 years. I was pretty emotional.” Having finished, he feels a heightened sense of gratitude that he wasn’t expecting. “I’m more thankful day to day,” he said.
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