Who has run the longest marathon in Olympic history? How long?

The longest marathon runner in history: Kanakuri Shizo.

The longest marathon in history: Runners took a picnic break and finished 54 years later

A marathon actually took 54 years, eight months, six days, eight hours and 36 seconds to complete. A game takes almost half a lifetime. In the marathon race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, extremely hot weather became the enemy of all runners. It was during this competition that the first death occurred in Olympic history; a record for the longest marathon was also set.

The race route at that time started from Stockholm and returned to Sholentuna. Athletes gathered from all over to Stockholm to participate in the marathon, and Shizo Kanakuri, one of the Asians participating in the Olympics for the first time, became the hope of the Japanese. What makes people laugh is that it was this Japanese player who attended a family picnic during the competition and mysteriously disappeared.

The day before the Olympic marathon, Kanari Shizo kept running against the heat. In a state of almost collapse, he collapsed in the garden of a Swedish family while the family was having a wonderful afternoon. picnic. After drinking the raspberry juice given by his host, he accepted his warm invitation and lay down on the director's bed with his eyes closed to rest. When he woke up, he found that the time had already passed the finishing time and it was impossible to return to the game. Later, the Japanese Kanakuri Shizo accepted the generous gift from the owner, a suit of clothes and a train ticket to Stockholm. Embarrassed by his failure to complete the race, he quietly sailed back to Japan.

The 22-year-old Kanali Shizo quietly got on the ship back to Japan in shame and said goodbye to the Olympics. Jin Li, who returned to his hometown, worked as a geography teacher and lived a peaceful life; on the other side of the ocean, Sweden was still using the police to search for news about the missing athlete. The Japanese team also thought that one of its players was missing in a foreign country. Shizo Kanakuri became a household name in Sweden and even became synonymous with "mystery" in Swedish life.

54 years later, a Swedish reporter went to Japan to interview Kanali’s family. When he found Kanali himself, he was already gray-haired. When mentioning that past incident, everyone treated it as a joke, except for Kanari Shizo himself who did not laugh. Completing the competition is the responsibility of every athlete. This responsibility has been weighing on Jin Li's heart for 54 years. Although he has experienced many ups and downs in life, started a family, started a career, and raised children, Jin Li still cannot forget this responsibility. When a Swedish reporter interviewed him, he finally decided to go to Sweden to continue his schedule.

In 1967, 77-year-old Kanakuri Shizo returned to the place where he drank orange juice and continued to move towards the end of the year. Spectators stood on both sides of the track, and people came to cheer for the old man. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Jin Li finally reached the finish line and fulfilled his long-cherished wish. This marathon took ***54 years, eight months, six days, eight hours and 36 seconds, making it the longest marathon in history.

It is the responsibility of every athlete to complete the game, and 77-year-old Kanakuri Shizo has not forgotten this responsibility. But that year, he withdrew from the game midway through the competition, and therefore had a permanent psychological burden. 54 years later, the clock of responsibility woke him up. Even though he was old, he still decided to complete the unfinished marathon in his life.

Faced with the memories of failure, Kanari Shizo stood up from where he fell. Time will change a person's thoughts and life attitude, but it cannot change the challenges and tests in life. Instead of lamenting that you are young and ignorant many years later, it is better to start from a young age, face difficulties bravely, and never give up halfway. Hold on until the last second.