The 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon course consists of three 6-mile loops
and one 8.2-mile loop. The start line will be located just outside of
Centennial Olympic Park in front of the College Football Hall of Fame
on Marietta Street near Atlanta's popular downtown attractions
including Georgia Aquarium, The Center for Civil and Human Rights and
the World of Coca Cola before heading toward the city's best known
thoroughfare - Peachtree Street. On Peachtree, the runners will pass
the Fox Theatre and loop around the Margaret Mitchell House, a museum
honoring the legendary author of "Gone with the Wind." From Peachtree
Street, the course takes the competitors into Atlanta's Historic Old
Fourth Ward where they will find the Martin Luther King National
Historic Park, birthplace and burial site of the Civil Rights icon.
The final loop will include a 2.2-mile section of the course, which
will take the athletes by the Georgia State Capitol building and
underneath the Olympic Rings and Cauldron structure outside Georgia
State Stadium that served as the Olympic Stadium at the 1996 Atlanta
Games. In the 26th mile, the race for a Tokyo Olympic berth will pass
the homes of the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United FC and the Atlanta
Hawks, and the Georgia World Congress Center before finishing inside
Centennial Olympic Park, downtown's transformational Olympic legacy
green space. The course climbs 1,154 feet over the 26.2 miles and
descends 1,171 feet to the Centennial Park finish. Compare the 2020
Olympic Trials Marathon with the 2016 Trials Marathon HERE.
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