The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally...
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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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the Boston Marathon, the B.A.A. 5K, the B.A.A. 10K, the B.A.A. Half Marathon, the B.A.A. Distance Medley (comprising the 5k, 10K, and half marathon events)...
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Johnny Kelley (category Boston Marathon male winners)
represented his native country at the Summer Olympics, in 1936 and 1948, and competed in the Boston Marathon over 50 times, winning in 1935 and 1945. He was often...
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Ellison Brown (category Boston Marathon male winners)
two-time winner of the Boston Marathon in 1936 (2:33:40) and 1939 (2:28:51) and 1936 U.S. Olympian. He ran the marathon in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin...
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Suh Yun-bok (category Boston Marathon male winners)
Kee-chung, the Korean winner of the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. His participation in the Boston Marathon was financed by donations from servicemen...
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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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Sohn Kee-chung (category Korean male marathon runners)
Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was born in the Korean Peninsula, but he was...
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Joan Benoit (category Boston Marathon female winners)
an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985. Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American...
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Sara Mae Berman (category Boston Marathon female winners)
Sara Mae Berman (née Sidore born 14 May 1936) is an American marathon runner. Berman won the Boston Marathon as an unofficial winner from 1969 to 1971...
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Olympic marathon proved immediately popular in the Western world and quickly spawned numerous long-running annual races, including the Boston Marathon in 1897...
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Stylianos Kyriakides (category Boston Marathon male winners)
(OS/NS) – 10 December 1987) was a Greek Cypriot marathon runner who came first at the Boston Marathon in 1946, with the aim of raising money to provide...
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The Comrades Marathon is an ultramarathon of approximately 88 kilometres (55 mi) which is run annually in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa between...
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July 3, 1936. Retrieved November 7, 2015. Ward, Michael (2006). Ellison "Tarzan" Brown: The Narragansett Indian Who Twice Won the Boston Marathon. McFarland...
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in the marathon.[1] Ellison Brown, of the Narragansett people from Rhode Island, better known as "Tarzan" Brown, won two Boston Marathons (1936, 1939)...
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on their home uniforms from "RED SOX" to "BOSTON" for one day to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, which took place earlier in the week...
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Ham Kee-yong (category Boston Marathon male winners)
was a South Korean marathoner, best known as the winner of the 1950 Boston Marathon. On 19 April 1950, he won the Boston Marathon with a record time of...
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Will Cloney (category Boston Latin School alumni)
administrator who was the race director of the Boston Marathon from 1946 to 1982 and president of the Boston Athletic Association from 1964 to 1982. Cloney...
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Ed Davis (police officer) (category Commissioners of the Boston Police Department)
police commissioner of the Boston Police Department, having served from 2006 to 2013, including during the Boston Marathon bombing. Following his resignation...
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Port of Boston (Massport) Cape Cod Canal Annual sporting events include: The Boston Marathon, which follows a course from Hopkinton to Boston The Head...
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including: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern, and Harvard. The city is also home to prestigious sports events such as the Boston Marathon and the...
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the oldest marathon in Europe and the third-oldest in the world (after the Boston Marathon, first held in 1897, and the Yonkers Marathon, first held...
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Boston Athletic Association to design and manufacture the first Best in Class running shirts, which were given to the top twenty 2018 Boston Marathon...
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Harry Smith (runner) (redirect from Harry Smith (marathoner))
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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John J. Kelley (category Boston Marathon male winners)
2011) was an American long-distance runner who won the 1957 Boston Marathon and the marathon at the 1959 Pan American Games. He was also a member of the...
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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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Clarence A. Barnes (category Presidents of the Boston Athletic Association)
18-year-old Doreen Kane. From 1936 to 1940, Barnes was the president of the Boston Athletic Association, organizer of the Boston Marathon. Barnes political career...
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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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marathoners who are athletes notable for their achievements in the marathon. For a list of people notable in other fields who have also run marathons...
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