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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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    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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    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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  • USATF-certified, Boston-qualifier course. The race weekend also features an international half-marathon, a U.S.-Only half-marathon, a relay, a 5K, a...
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    Aurèle Vandendriessche (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    with the best result of seventh place in 1964. Twice winner of the Boston Marathon (1963 and 1964), he recorded his best time there, 2:17:44 in 1965, while...
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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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    Ron Hill (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    personal marathon record of 2:09:28. In 1970, Hill won the 74th Boston Marathon in a course record 2:10:30. He also won gold medals for the marathon at the...
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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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    broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to January 14, 1973. It was one of the first cooking...
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  • Andy Ronan (category Irish male marathon runners)
    Ronan competed in the men's marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He finished in third place in the 1991 Boston Marathon, just 21 seconds behind first...
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    vigil was held at the cathedral in honor of the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. US President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy. In 2018, the...
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    Abebe Bikila (category Ethiopian male marathon runners)
    sixteen marathons. He placed second on his first marathon in Addis Ababa, won twelve other races, and finished fifth in the 1963 Boston Marathon. In July...
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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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    Its earliest predecessor, the Land of Lakes Marathon, began in 1963. It is one of the top 10 largest marathons in the US. In 2006 the race agreed to its...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • November or “the Sunday before Thanksgiving”. The Marathon is a top U.S. running event and top Boston qualifier with 30,000 runners participating in one...
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    Andrés Espinosa (category Mexican male marathon runners)
    Andrés Espinoza Pérez (born 4 February 1963) is a Mexican former long-distance runner who specialized in marathon races. Espinosa finished ninth at the...
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  • band for reasons not directly related to the franchise, such as the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 (later replaced with a dedicated memorial patch), and...
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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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  • The Atlanta Marathon (branded Publix Atlanta Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon held in Atlanta, Georgia, except in 2021 where it...
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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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  • WCVB-TV (redirect from The Boston Channel)
    Marathon dropout". The Boston Globe. Retrieved June 25, 2014. Noyes, Jesse (December 20, 2006). "WBZ to Air Marathon". Boston Herald. Retrieved June 25...
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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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  • races eventually included: Bay to Breakers Boston Marathon Chicago Marathon Los Angeles Marathon New York Marathon The growth in road racing events spread...
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    Kenji Kimihara (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    in both 1963 and 1964, and registering four wins at the Beppu-Ōita Marathon between 1967 and 1973. Kimihara raced in the 2016 Boston Marathon, celebrating...
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