Given the question: Information: - The is the national governing body for the sport of athletics in Japan. - The is an annual marathon road race for women over the classic distance of 42.195kilometres which is held on the 4th or 5th Sunday of January in the city of Osaka, Japan, and hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations, Kansai Telecasting Corporation, the Sankei Shimbun, Sankei Sports, Radio Osaka and Osaka City. - The Yokohama Women 's Marathon was a marathon held in Yokohama , Japan , and hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations , TV Asahi , the Asahi Shimbun . It is one of the major Japanese women 's marathon races which is used to decide selection for the Olympics , along with the Nagoya Marathon and Osaka International Ladies Marathon . The competition replaced the Tokyo International Women 's Marathon which was held in Tokyo from 1979 until 2008 . Following the creation of the annual Tokyo Marathon in 2007 , which featured its own annual women 's marathon , the sponsors decided to move the women 's marathon to Yokohama in 2009 . First held on November 15 , 2009 , it is scheduled for November every year . The second edition was postponed to February 2011 due to APEC Japan 2010 being held that November and the third edition returned to the usual November timing . In 2012 Lydia Cheromei ran a course record time of 2:23:07 hours . - The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 miles, or 26 miles 385 yards), usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides (more correctly, Philippides), a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens, who reported the victory. What is the relationship between 'yokohama women's marathon' and 'sport of athletics'?
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sport