• 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...
    5 KB (82 words) - 12:10, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of winners of the Boston Marathon
    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...
    63 KB (1,468 words) - 17:51, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marathon
    Semple, Boston's Mr. Marathon, pages 7, 114–118, Waterford Publishing Co., ISBN 978-0942052015 Boston Marathon History. baa.org Boston Marathon History:...
    139 KB (12,346 words) - 12:36, 1 January 2025
  • 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...
    94 KB (8,181 words) - 12:55, 1 January 2025
  • 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...
    5 KB (69 words) - 12:11, 1 May 2024
  • The 1996 Boston Marathon was the 100th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 15. The elite men's race...
    4 KB (69 words) - 12:10, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Patriots' Day
    Patriots' Day (category Boston Marathon)
    canceled in 1995 due to the baseball strike, and again in 2020 due to COVID-19. The game was played in 2013 despite the Boston Marathon bombing because...
    14 KB (1,225 words) - 17:07, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joan Benoit
    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...
    18 KB (1,716 words) - 10:48, 13 November 2024
  • Marathon is an annual marathon event held in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The race has been run each year since 1995 and is a Boston Marathon qualifying...
    5 KB (195 words) - 20:26, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bill Rodgers (runner)
    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...
    17 KB (1,995 words) - 06:42, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kathrine Switzer
    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...
    29 KB (3,031 words) - 22:56, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Catherine Ndereba
    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...
    13 KB (926 words) - 12:45, 25 December 2024
  • 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...
    57 KB (6,906 words) - 17:36, 31 December 2024
  • consists of a marathon, half marathon, marathon relay (5 member teams), 5k, and kids marathon. The race is an official Boston Marathon qualifying event...
    4 KB (315 words) - 08:18, 21 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Honolulu Marathon
    the Boston Marathon and the positive impact that came with the race.[citation needed] During its formative period (1973–1978) the Honolulu Marathon doubled...
    23 KB (1,539 words) - 16:20, 26 December 2024
  • The London Marathon (also known as the TCS London Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon held in London, England. Founded by athletes...
    46 KB (3,967 words) - 04:10, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uta Pippig
    Uta Pippig (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times (1990, 1992 and 1995); the 1993 New York...
    10 KB (904 words) - 10:10, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Margaret Okayo
    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...
    7 KB (399 words) - 13:27, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bobbi Gibb
    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...
    26 KB (2,774 words) - 03:24, 12 December 2024
  • 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...
    99 KB (7,154 words) - 12:04, 25 October 2024
  • 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...
    28 KB (1,795 words) - 05:12, 11 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dakotah Popehn
    Dakotah Popehn (category 1995 births)
    where she resided at the time. At the autumn running of the 2021 Boston Marathon, Lindwurm ran well through the first half to be one of only two American...
    45 KB (3,413 words) - 19:59, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edna Kiplagat
    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...
    22 KB (1,761 words) - 14:29, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eliud Kipchoge
    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...
    103 KB (7,436 words) - 20:13, 10 December 2024
  • Boston Marathon. The event is a member of AIMS and Athletics Ontario and meets their criteria.[citation needed] The race featured women marathoners prior...
    11 KB (768 words) - 14:07, 5 November 2024
  • Fatuma Roba (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    medal in the women's Olympic marathon race, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and for winning three successive Boston Marathons. Fatuma Roba was born on 18...
    8 KB (564 words) - 20:31, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Marathon
    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...
    75 KB (8,338 words) - 06:35, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Harry Smith (runner)
    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...
    19 KB (1,649 words) - 10:24, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sunita Williams
    Sunita Williams (category American female marathon runners)
    (2007). "NASA Astronaut to Run Boston Marathon in Space". NASA. Retrieved December 19, 2007. "Cheruiyot wins Boston Marathon". aljazeera.com. April 22, 2008...
    38 KB (3,403 words) - 01:19, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Florida Keys Marathon Airport
    Keys Marathon International Airport (IATA: MTH, ICAO: KMTH, FAA LID: MTH) is a public airport located along the Overseas Highway (US1) in Marathon, in...
    15 KB (1,938 words) - 22:43, 10 December 2024