Paris Olympics Marathon Team Member Akira Akasaki Visits Grave of Olympian From 100 Years Ago

Paris Olympics Marathon Team Member Akira Akasaki Visits Grave of Olympian From 100 Years Ago
Paris Olympics marathon team member Akira Akasaki is the first man from Kumamoto to make an Olympic marathon since the father of Japanese marathoning Shizo Kanakuri 100 years ago. Akasaki finished 2nd in October’s Olympic marathon trials to make the Paris team, only the second man from Kumamoto prefecture to ever make an Olympic marathon team after Kanakuri at the 1924 Paris Olympics.On Nov. 6

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