• 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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    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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  • Boston Marathon qualifying standards allow runners to qualify for the Boston Marathon by running a previous marathon with a stipulated result within a...
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  • Golden Gate Bridge. It is a qualifying race for the Boston Marathon. The first San Francisco Marathon was organized by the Pamakids Runners Club. Athol...
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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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    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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    European Championships Marathon (Athens) 1983 Men's World Championships Marathon (Helsinki) 1984 Men's Friendship Games Marathon (Moscow) 1986 Men's European...
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    women's marathon was one of the road events at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. It took place on 7 August 1983, starting...
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    an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator. In the year 1967, she became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially...
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  • Times. 5 November 2006. Retrieved 2015-10-29. "2017 Boston Marathon Results". The Boston Globe. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 17 April 2017. "Tennis star Caroline...
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  • London Marathon (also known as the TCS London Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon held in London, England. It is the largest marathon in...
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  • Rosie Ruiz (category Boston Marathon)
    schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race...
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    Bill Rodgers (runner) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    and former record holder in the marathon. Rodgers is best known for his four victories in both the Boston Marathon, including three straight from 1978...
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    Meb Keflezighi (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    21, 2014, Keflezighi became the first American man to win the Boston Marathon since 1983, besting many of the heavy African favorites in a new personal...
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  • Waitz's time was a marathon world record, yet it stood for only one day as it was beaten by Joan Benoit at the 1983 Boston Marathon. Around 60,000 people...
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    Desiree Linden (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    Olympics and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics women's marathon. In 2018, she won the Boston Marathon, becoming the first American in 33 years to win the...
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    Elkanah Kibet (category American male marathon runners)
    Kibet ran 2:10:43 in the 2023 Prague Marathon. Kibet set a personal record by running 2:09:07 in the 2022 Boston Marathon. Army Global SGT Elkanah Kibet. armymwr...
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  • Greg Meyer (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    Meyer's winning time for the 1983 Boston Marathon race was 2:09.00. He was the last American to win the Boston Marathon until 2014, and the last person...
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  • largest marathon in the world, with 53,627 finishers in 2019 and 98,247 applicants for the 2017 race. Along with the Boston Marathon and Chicago Marathon, it...
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    finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring roughly 264. The subsequent manhunt led to a lock-down of Boston and surrounding municipalities...
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  • Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (category Swiss female marathon runners)
    California International Marathon in 1983. On October of the same year, she was invited to the 2nd annual Twin Cities Marathon. With a starting temperature...
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  • Ron Tabb (category American male marathon runners)
    All-Americans. 1983 Boston Marathon 2:09:31 2nd. 5th fastest marathon in U.S. history 1983 N.Y. City Marathon 2:10:48 3rd. 1st American 1983 Wang Australian...
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    Robert de Castella (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    AO, MBE (born 27 February 1957) is an Australian former world champion marathon runner. De Castella is widely known as "Deek" or "Deeks" to the Australian...
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  • Toshihiko Seko (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    notable marathon wins include Fukuoka Marathon (1978–1980, 1983), Boston Marathon (1981, 1987), London Marathon (1986) and Chicago Marathon (1986). On...
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    Catherine Ndereba (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    winner of the Boston Marathon and a two-time winner of the Chicago Marathon. It was at the latter in 2001 that she broke the women's marathon world record...
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    Eliud Kipchoge (category Recipients of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races Best Marathon Runner Award)
    marathon and formerly specialized in the 5000 metres. Regarded as the greatest marathon runner of all time, he is the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathon champion...
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    Edna Kiplagat (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    set at the London Marathon in 2012. At age 37, Kiplagat won the 2017 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:21:52 hours, and won the marathon silver medal at the...
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    Kara Goucher (category American female marathon runners)
    2012 London Olympics. She made her marathon debut in 2008 and finished third the following year at the Boston Marathon. She competed collegiately for the...
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    Ingrid Kristiansen (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    she won the London Marathon again in a new world record of 2:21:06; the previous record was 2:22:43 set in the 1983 Boston Marathon by Joan Benoit. Later...
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