Nara Marathon
Start and finish stadium
Date	December
Location	Nara, Japan
Event type	road
Distance	Marathon
Established	2010
Course records	Men: 2:18:56 (2018) Yūya Tsukamoto Women: 2:33:22 (2019) Haruka Yamaguchi
Official site	Nara Marathon
Participants	6,789 finishers (2021) 11,137 (2019)

The Nara Marathon (奈良マラソン, Nara Marason) is an annual marathon sporting event for men and women over the classic distance of 42.195 kilometres which is held on the 2nd sunday of December in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan.

The race starts at Konoike Athletic Stadium, and after the course passes through Nara and Tenri cities, came back and finishes at Konoike Athletic Stadium.

Results

Key:   Course record

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's winner	Time (h:m:s)
1st	2010	Nobuyuki Matsumoto (JPN)	2:23:16	Kaoru Tabata (JPN)	2:49:52
2nd	2011	Osamu Hirata (JPN)	2:20:23	Yoshimi Hoshino (JPN)	2:47:50
3rd	2012	Tomoya Nagasawa (JPN)	2:28:58	Ikue Tabata (JPN)	2:43:16
4th	2013	Osamu Hirata (JPN)	2:23:46	Yuri Yoshizumi (JPN)	2:46:21
5th	2014	Yoshinori Sugimoto (JPN)	2:24:14	Haruka Yamaguchi (JPN)	2:45:55
6th	2015	Osamu Hirata (JPN)	2:24:41	Ikue Tabata (JPN)	2:53:57
7th	2016	Osamu Hirata (JPN)	2:27:50	Saki Tokoro (JPN)	2:44:05
8th	2017	Yoshiyuki Hara (JPN)	2:23:53	Sanae Taketsu (JPN)	2:46:59
9th	2018	Yūya Tsukamoto (JPN)	2:18:56	Haruka Yamaguchi (JPN)	2:40:50
10th	2019	Yoshihiro Yamamoto (JPN)	2:21:22	Haruka Yamaguchi (JPN)	2:33:22
—	2020	Did not held
11th	2021	Yoshihiro Yamamoto (JPN)	2:21:55	Haruka Yamaguchi (JPN)	2:34:36