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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Ellison Brown (category Boston Marathon male winners)
was a 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...
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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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spring of 1943. The Marathon Airport was constructed during the early days of WWII and was a portion of the U.S. Navy flight programs. Marathon would become...
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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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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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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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since Boston Marathon bombings". 12 April 2023. "An Effort to Curtail the Use of Tear Gas on Protesters Is Underway in Massachusetts". Boston. 2020-06-03...
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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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Dave McKenzie (runner) (redirect from Dave McKenzie (marathon runner))
McKenzie (born 16 March 1943 in Dunollie, Grey District) is a former long-distance runner from New Zealand. McKenzie won the Boston Marathon in 1967, setting...
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Batman (serial) (redirect from The Batman (1943 movie))
Batman is a 1943 American 15-chapter theatrical serial from Columbia Pictures, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow, directed by Lambert Hillyer, that stars...
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The Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) is an annual marathon held in Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia. The mission of the MCM is to promote physical...
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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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Gérard Côté (category Boston Marathon male winners)
boxer when he switched to running marathons. He competed in his first Boston Marathon in 1936 and won the race in 1940, 1943, 1944, and 1948. He set a new...
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George V. Brown (category Boston Marathon)
sports and sporting events in the United States, most notably the Boston Marathon and amateur ice hockey. From 1904 to 1936, Brown served the United...
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The USA Marathon Championships is the annual national championships for marathon running in the United States. The race serves as a way of designating...
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William B. Evans (category Commissioners of the Boston Police Department)
those that occurred at other camps. Evans ran the 2013 Boston Marathon and was at the Boston Athletic Club when he was informed by an officer that two...
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Lawrence Cherono (category Boston Marathon male winners)
fastest marathon performer of all time with his 2:03:04 clocking at the 2020 Valencia Marathon. Cherono is a past winner of both the Boston and Chicago...
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Road, on the outskirts of Boston. Boston Rowing Club, near Carlton Road, hosts the annual 33 miles (53 km) Boston Rowing Marathon each year in mid-September...
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Bobbi Gibb (born 1942), first woman to complete the Boston Marathon, three-time women's Boston Marathon winner Barbara Ann Bobbi Humphrey (born 1950), American...
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Bob Lobel (category Television anchors from Boston)
Robert "Bob" Lobel (born December 24, 1943) is a former sportscaster for WBZ-TV in Boston, Massachusetts. He anchored the sports segments on the evening...
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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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Michael Cox (police officer) (category People from Boston)
an American police officer, currently serving as the commissioner of the Boston Police Department. He previously was the chief of police in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
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Watford, 80, dance music singer (b. 1943/44) Jimy Williams, 80, baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays). January...
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Gösta Leandersson (category Boston Marathon male winners)
April 1918 – 1995) was a Swedish marathon runner. He won the Košice Peace Marathon in 1948 and 1950 and Boston Marathon in 1949. At the European championships...
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deputies over his response to the Boston Marathon bombing. After sexual harassment complaints by several women, the Boston Fire Department agreed to improve...
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Oakland Tribune, 4 November 1943 Preminger, Erik Lee (1984). Gypsy & Me: At Home and on the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-71776-2...
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Retrieved April 29, 2018. "A history of the Wellesley College Boston Marathon 'Scream Tunnel'". Boston.com. April 12, 2018. Archived from the original on April...
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within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city...
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Kenny Moore (runner) (category 1943 births)
Clark Moore (December 1, 1943 – May 4, 2022) was an American Olympic road running athlete and journalist. He ran the marathon at the 1968 and 1972 Summer...
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