{"id":1040007485,"date":"2025-09-13T01:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/?p=1040007485"},"modified":"2025-09-13T02:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:47:54","slug":"museum-of-world-athletics-hits-tokyo-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/news\/museum-of-world-athletics-hits-tokyo-2025-1040007485\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of World Athletics hits Tokyo 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mobile MOWA exhibition is in the Japanese capital and is poised to stage a special event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Coe will host a donation ceremony for the Museum of World Athletics in Tokyo on Tuesday (Sept 16) with eight world or Olympic champions donating items.<\/p>\n

As well as the global gold medallists, a former Boston Marathon winner and a world record-breaking race walker are also among the donors as the athletes kindly lend some of their clothing, shoes and equipment to bolster the impressive and ever-growing collection.<\/p>\n

The athletes donating memorabilia are:<\/p>

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  • Kenji Kimihara (winner Boston Marathon 1966),<\/li>\n
  • Don Quarrie (Olympic gold 200m 1976),<\/li>\n
  • Ellen van Langen (Olympic gold 800m 1992),<\/li>\n
  • Mizuki Noguchi\u00a0(Olympic gold Marathon 2004),<\/li>\n
  • Joanna Hayes\u00a0(Olympic gold 100m hurdles 2004),<\/li>\n
  • Ladji Doucour\u00e9 (world gold 110m hurdles & 4x100m 2005),<\/li>\n
  • Constantina Dita\u00a0(Olympic gold marathon 2008),<\/li>\n
  • Trey Hardee (world gold decathlon 2009 2011),<\/li>\n
  • Nicola Olyslagers (world indoor gold high jump 2024 2025),<\/li>\n
  • Evan Dunfee (world record 35km walk 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    The location of the event is the: 2nd Floor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building 1, North Tower, 2-8-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo 163-8001.<\/p>\n

    AW has already visited the MOWA display in Tokyo with a number of British fans from Track & Field Tours and it is highly recommended.<\/p>\n

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    The mobile MOWA exhibition is in the Japanese capital and is poised to stage a special event on Tuesday. Sebastian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1040007486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_championship":0,"wds_primary_country":0,"wds_primary_sports":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,35970],"tags":[],"championship":[],"country":[],"sports":[],"class_list":["post-1040007485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040007485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040007485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040007485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040007486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040007485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040007485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040007485"},{"taxonomy":"championship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/championship?post=1040007485"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=1040007485"},{"taxonomy":"sports","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sports?post=1040007485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}