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    times at the Berlin Marathon, three times at the Boston Marathon, five times at the Chicago Marathon, six times at the London Marathon, and five times at...
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    The Boston Marathon, one of the six World Marathon Majors, is a 26.2-mile (42.2 km) race which has been held in the Greater Boston area in Massachusetts...
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    Semple, Boston's Mr. Marathon, pages 7, 114–118, Waterford Publishing Co., ISBN 978-0942052015 Boston Marathon History. baa.org Boston Marathon History:...
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    line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring roughly 264. The subsequent search for the bombers led to a lock-down of Boston and surrounding...
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    1897, the Tour de Paris Marathon in 1902, the Yonkers Marathon in 1907, and the London Polytechnic Marathon in 1909. Such marathons played a key role in...
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    The Polytechnic Marathon, often called the Poly, was a marathon held annually between 1909 and 1996, over various courses in or near London. It was the...
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  • The London Marathon (also known as the TCS London Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon held in London, England. Founded by athletes...
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    States, after the Boston Marathon. It is held on the third Sunday in October. In addition to the marathon, there is a half marathon race and a 5K course...
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    Thomas Hicks (athlete) (category American male marathon runners)
    Marathon. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics. p. 53. ISBN 0-88011-969-1 – via Internet Archive. Eckersall, Walter H. (January 17, 1909). "MARATHON TO...
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  • Sammy Mellor (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    early stars" of the Boston Marathon. He finished in the top 10 six out of nine years between 1901 and 1909. In the 1901 Boston Marathon, Mellor finished...
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    Johnny Hayes (category American male marathon runners)
    16 November 2019. General Boston Athletic Association (21 April 2008). 2008 Boston Marathon Media Guide (PDF). Boston: Boston Athletic Association / John...
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    Michael J. Ryan (athlete) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    competed in the Boston Marathon in 1907, finishing 15th, in 1908 he came in fourth place with a time of 2:27:08. He did not finish the race in 1909. He came...
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  • John McDermott (runner) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    or "little Mac", he won the first marathon run in the United States in 1896, as well as the inaugural Boston Marathon, then known as the B.A.A. Road Race...
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    1911 Boston Marathon winner Clarence DeMar, 1912 Boston winner Michael J. Ryan, and 1908 Olympic bronze medalist Joseph Forshaw. Great Britain had 1909 Polytechnic...
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  • The Chicago Marathon is a road marathon held in October in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the seven World Marathon Majors. Thus, it is also a World Athletics...
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    Albin Stenroos (category Finnish male marathon runners)
    1971) was a Finnish runner, who won the marathon at the 1924 Olympics. Stenroos ran his first marathon in 1909, placing third at the national championships...
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    United States, 25 miles (40 km) west of Boston. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriots' Day each...
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  • (1887–1978), American baseball player with the Boston Red Sox W. R. Rodgers (William Robert Rodgers, 1909–1969), Northern Irish poet, book reviewer and...
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    organization formed a close association with the city of Boston and its people in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing that occurred on April 15, 2013. On April...
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    Frederick Lorz (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    American long distance runner who won the 1905 Boston Marathon. Lorz is also known for his "finish" in the marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics, where he did...
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    Ronald MacDonald (athlete) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    1947) was a Canadian runner, best known as the winner of the second Boston Marathon in 1898. He later became a successful physician in Nova Scotia. MacDonald...
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    mayor of Boston is the head of the municipal government in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Boston has a mayor–council government. Boston's mayoral...
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    rooms with Jim Thorpe on the way to the Olympics. Smith also ran the Boston Marathon 10 years in a row. He finished 10th at the 1912 event with a time of...
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  • the Marathon". Boston Marathon. Boston Athletic Association. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Who We Are, French Cultural Center of Boston, retrieved...
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  • suffragette, grandmother of Katherine Tait Katherine Russell, widow of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev Katherine Russell (1848–1915), Australian...
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  • John Lordan (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    job. On August 18, 1909, Lorden raced a marathon in St. John’s, Newfoundland against his former teammate and 1898 Boston Marathon champion Ronald MacDonald...
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    first facility to host the Bruins was the Boston Arena (now known as Matthews Arena), the world's oldest (built 1909–10) indoor ice hockey facility still in...
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  • public appearances related to the Boston Marathon bombing. The Boston Globe maintains two distinct major websites: BostonGlobe.com is a subscriber-supported...
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    Gelindo Bordin (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    an Olympic gold in the marathon and the only male to win both the Boston Marathon and the Olympic gold medal in this event. Born in Vicenza, Italy, Bordin...
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    season. The next one consisted of the words "BOSTON" and "RED SOX" in blocky red letters and was used from 1909 to 1935. The current primary home uniform...
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