The 2001 Boston Marathon was the 105th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States and was held on April 16. 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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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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participants in the Berlin, London, Paris, Boston, Chicago, and New York marathons during the years from 2001 to 2010 found that runners recorded their...
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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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Kathrine Switzer (redirect from 1967 Boston Marathon)
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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Tamerlan Tsarnaev (category Boston Marathon bombing)
younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The bombings killed three spectators and injured...
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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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The Honolulu Marathon (branded JAL Honolulu Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is a marathon (26.2 miles or 42.2km) in Honolulu, Hawaii, first held on December...
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The 2000 Boston Marathon was the 104th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States and was held on April 17. The elite men's race was...
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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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Patriots' Day (category Boston Marathon)
each year, with celebrations including battle reenactments and the Boston Marathon. In 1894, the Lexington Historical Society petitioned the Massachusetts...
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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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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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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (category Boston Marathon bombing)
American terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent who perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombing. On April 15, 2013, Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan...
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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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The 2002 Boston Marathon was the 106th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States and was held on April 15, 2002. The elite men's race...
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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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Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot (category Boston Marathon male winners)
known as Omar Ahmed, is a Kenyan marathon runner and is the former record holder and four-time winner of the Boston Marathon. Cheruiyot trained running while...
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Margaret Okayo (category Boston Marathon female winners)
Kenyan marathon runner. She has won four World Marathon Majors with victories in the New York City Marathon (two times), the Boston Marathon and the...
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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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The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea...
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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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Bobbi Gibb (category Boston Marathon female winners)
who was the first woman to have run the entire Boston Marathon (1966). She is recognized by the Boston Athletic Association as the pre-sanctioned era...
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Ryan Hall (runner) (category American male marathon runners)
event. He is also the only American to run a sub-2:05 marathon (2:04:58 at the 2011 Boston marathon). However, this time is not eligible to be a record...
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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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President Francois Tombalbaye. Born: Lee Bong-ju, South Korean marathon runner, 2001 Boston Marathon winner and 1996 Olympic silver medalist; in Cheonan Died:...
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Ham Kee-yong (category Boston Marathon male winners)
the 1947 Boston marathon Lee Bong-ju, the winner of the 2001 Boston marathon Ham Kee-yong [permanent dead link] History of Korea's marathon 1950년 '보스톤...
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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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Meb Keflezighi (category Boston Marathon male winners)
for 10,000 m, set in 2001 (an American record which stood until 2010); and 2:08:37 for the marathon, set at the 2014 Boston Marathon. On October 11, 2010...
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