What is the longest race in the Olympics?.Marathon rules, distance and course at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) set this standard distance in May 1921, after years of having it bumping around between 24 to 26 miles. That’s 42.195 kilometers for metric-system users. The distance for an official marathon, which avid runners might point out, is actually 26.2 miles or to be absolutely exact, 26 miles and 385 yards. This is a perfectly acceptable answer, and more mathematically accurate than another common answer, which is, “too long”. If a non-runner with a rudimentary knowledge of sports were to be asked how long a marathon is, the answer might be “ 26 miles” or “42 kilometers”, depending on where they were in the world and which unit of distance they used.
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