• The 1994 Boston Marathon was the 98th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 18. The elite men's race was...
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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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    1898 Boston Marathon, contemporarily referred to as the Boston Athletic Association's annual marathon race, was the second edition of the marathon race...
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    Derderian, Boston Marathon: History of the World's Premier Running Event, Human Kinetics, 1994, 1996 Wikiquote has quotations related to Marathons. Wikimedia...
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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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  • The 1995 Boston Marathon was the 99th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 17. The elite men's race was...
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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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    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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  • 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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    results can be used to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Since naming a primary beneficiary in 1997, the Dallas Marathon has donated more than $3.8 million...
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  • The 1993 Boston Marathon was the 97th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 19. The elite men's race was...
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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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    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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    Uta Pippig (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times (1990, 1992 and 1995);...
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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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    Dance marathons (or marathon dances) are events in which people dance or walk to music for an extended period of time. They started as dance contests in...
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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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    Diana Kipyokei (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    (2:22:06). Kipyokei finished first in the women's race at the 2021 Boston Marathon (2:24:45) on 11 October 2021. In October 2022, the Athletics Integrity...
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  • Below is a sortable list of individuals who died as a result of running a marathon. The most frequent causes are: sudden cardiac death, triggered by a congenital...
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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, and was...
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    Sarah Sellers (category American female marathon runners)
    cross-country. In her marathon debut, she won the Huntsville Marathon in Utah to qualify for the 2018 Boston Marathon. At the 2018 Boston Marathon, she finished...
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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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    (1977) The Tortoise and the Hare, Nancy Schön (1994) The Boston Marathon Centennial Monument, Mark Flannery (1994). Additions by Robert Shure and Robert Lamb...
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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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    the Boston Marathon and the positive impact that came with the race.[citation needed] During its formative period (1973–1978) the Honolulu Marathon doubled...
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    Geoffrey Mutai (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    road running competitions. On 18 April 2011 at the Boston Marathon, Mutai ran the fastest marathon ever at the time in a time of 2 hours 3 minutes 2 seconds...
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    Eliud Kipchoge (category Recipients of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races Best Marathon Runner Award)
    Berlin Marathon, where Kipsang broke the world record, an eighth-place finish at the 2020 London Marathon and a sixth place in his debut at the Boston Marathon...
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    Meb Keflezighi (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    the marathon and finished in fourth place in the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the 2009 New York City Marathon on November 1, 2009, and the 2014 Boston Marathon...
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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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  • nearly 10,000 competitors annually in all races. The full marathon is a certified Boston Marathon qualifier. Two course records were set at the 2011 edition...
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