Honolulu

==Sports==
Honolulu's tropical climate lends itself to year-round activities. In 2004, ''[[Men's Fitness]]'' magazine named Honolulu the [[physical fitness|fittest]] city in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|date=January 5, 2004|title=Honolulu ranked No. 1 fittest city for second year|url=http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2004/01/05/daily10.html|access-date=May 22, 2012|website=Pacific Business News|publisher=Pacific.bizjournals.com}}</ref> Honolulu has three large [[road running|road races]]:
* The [[Great Aloha Run]] is held annually on [[Presidents' Day (United States)|Presidents' Day]].
* The [[Honolulu Marathon]], held annually on the second Sunday in December, draws more than 20,000 participants each year, about half to two thirds of them from Japan.
* The [[Honolulu Triathlon]] is an Olympic distance [[triathlon]] event governed by [[USA Triathlon]] and partly by the Japanese. Held annually in May since 2004, there is an absence of a sprint course.

[[Ironman Hawaii]] was first held in Honolulu. It was the first ever Ironman triathlon event and is also the world championship.

The Waikiki Roughwater Swim race is held annually off the beach of Waikiki. Founded by Jim Cotton in 1970, the course is {{convert|2.384|mi}} and spans from the New Otani Hotel to the Hilton Rainbow Tower.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.waikikiroughwaterswim.com/|title=WAIKIKI ROUGHWATER SWIM|website=www.waikikiroughwaterswim.com|access-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref>

Fans of spectator sports in Honolulu generally support the [[American football|football]], [[volleyball]], [[basketball]], [[rugby union]], [[rugby league]], and [[baseball]] programs of the [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uhm.hawaii.edu/ |title=University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|publisher=Uhm.hawaii.edu |date=May 2, 2012 |access-date=May 22, 2012}}</ref> High school sporting events, especially football, are especially popular.

Honolulu has no professional sports teams, with any prospective teams being forced to conduct extremely long travels for away games in the continental states. It was the home of the [[Hawaii Islanders]] ([[Pacific Coast League]], 1961–87), [[The Hawaiians (WFL)|The Hawaiians]] ([[World Football League]], 1974–75), [[Team Hawaii]] ([[North American Soccer League (1968–84)|North American Soccer League]], 1977), and the [[Hawaiian Islanders]] ([[af2]], 2002–04).

The [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] football [[Hawaii Bowl]] is played in Honolulu. Honolulu also hosted the [[National Football League|NFL]]'s annual [[Pro Bowl]] each February from 1980 to 2009. After the 2010 and 2015 games were played in [[Sun Life Stadium|Miami Gardens]] and [[University of Phoenix Stadium|Glendale]], respectively, the Pro Bowl was once again in Honolulu from 2011 to 2014, with 2016 the most recent.<ref>{{Cite news| last1=Arnett| first1=Paul| last2=Reardon| first2=Dave| title=Miami tackles Pro Bowl| newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin| date=December 30, 2008| url=http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20081230_Miami_tackles_Pro_Bowl.html?page=all&c=y| access-date=December 30, 2008}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pro Bowl shifting to Super Bowl site for 2015|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-04-09/sports/chi-pro-bowl-shifting-to-super-bowl-site-20140409_1_pro-bowl-traditional-afc-aloha-stadium|work=[[The Chicago Tribune]]|agency=[[Reuters]]|date=April 9, 2014|access-date=December 26, 2015}}</ref> From 1993 to 2008, Honolulu hosted [[Hawaii Winter Baseball]], featuring minor-league players from [[Major League Baseball]], [[Nippon Professional Baseball]], [[Korea Baseball Organization]], and [[independent baseball|independent leagues]].

In 2018, the Honolulu Little League team [[2018 Little League World Series qualification|qualified for that year's Little League World Series tournament]]. The team went undefeated en route to the United States championship game, where it [[2018 Little League World Series results#United States|bested Georgia's Peachtree City American Little League team 3–0]]. In the world championship game, the team faced off against South Korea's South Seoul Little League team. Hawaii pitcher Ka'olu Holt threw a complete-game shutout while striking out 8, and Honolulu Little League, again by a score of 3–0, secured the victory, capturing the [[2018 Little League World Series]] championship and Hawaii's third overall title at the [[Little League World Series]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/mlb/news/little-league-world-series-2018-championship-game-hawaii-south-korea/4vy39kkhro7b17dgnc9hbeni0|title=Little League World Series 2018: Live updates for Hawaii-South Korea championship game|date=August 26, 2018|work=Sporting News|access-date=August 26, 2018}}</ref>

===Venues===
Venues for [[spectator sports]] in Honolulu include:
*[[Les Murakami Stadium]] at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ([[baseball]])
*[[Neal S. Blaisdell Center]] Arena (basketball)
*[[Stan Sheriff Center]] at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ([[basketball]] and [[volleyball]])

[[Aloha Stadium]] was a venue for [[American football]] and [[soccer]] located in [[Halawa, Hawaii|Halawa]] near [[Pearl Harbor]], just outside Honolulu.<ref>"[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US1510000&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on Halawa CDP, Hawaii] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202053929/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US1510000&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on |date=December 2, 2010 }}." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on May 21, 2009.</ref> The stadium was closed in 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bromberg|first=Nick|date=December 17, 2020|title=Hawaii without a home stadium after Aloha Stadium, a former Pro Bowl site, reportedly will be condemned|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/hawaii-without-a-home-stadium-after-aloha-stadium-the-former-site-of-the-pro-bowl-gets-condemned-003256715.html|access-date=December 19, 2020|work=Yahoo Sports|language=en-US}}</ref> Plans for a new stadium at the site were announced in 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.enr.com/articles/54439-hawaii-gov-approves-funds-to-build-a-new-aloha-stadium | title=Hawaii Gov. Approves Funds to Build a New Aloha Stadium &#124; Engineering News-Record }}</ref>