• The 1989 Boston Marathon was the 93rd 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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    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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  • Boston Marathon qualifying standards allow runners to qualify for the Boston Marathon by running a previous marathon with a stipulated result within a...
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  • The 1988 Boston Marathon was the 92nd 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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    1947) is an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator. In 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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  • The 1990 Boston Marathon was the 94th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 16. The elite men's race was...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Abdi Nageeye (category Dutch male marathon runners)
    Nageeye (born 2 March 1989) is a Somali-Dutch long-distance runner from the Netherlands. He won the silver medal in the marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics...
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  • Mary Joy Tabal (category Filipino female marathon runners)
    Reyes Tabal-Jimenez OLY (born July 13, 1989) is a Filipino marathon runner. She is the first female Filipino marathon runner to qualify for the 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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  • 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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  • John Treacy (category Irish male marathon runners)
    sporting administrator. He is best known for winning a silver medal in the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Treacy was born in Villierstown...
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  • Jock Semple (category Boston Marathon)
    official. In 1967, as a race official for the Boston Marathon, he attempted to stop the 20-year-old marathon runner Kathrine Switzer from continuing to run...
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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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    Survivor (2013), the disaster drama Deepwater Horizon (2016), the Boston Marathon bombing drama Patriots Day (2016), the action thriller Mile 22 (2018)...
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  • Yoshiko Yamamoto (category Japanese female marathon runners)
    former marathon runner who won the 1990 Paris Marathon, came second at the 1992 Boston Marathon, and third at the 1992 New York City Marathon. In 1989, Yamamoto...
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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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    The Houston Marathon is an annual marathon usually held every January in Houston, Texas, United States, since 1972. With thousands of runners and spectators...
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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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    Ingrid Kristiansen (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    with a fractured bone in her foot. She returned to racing in 1989, winning the Boston Marathon in 2:24:33 despite the heat in the latter stages. She decided...
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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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  • from Gómez Palacio to Torreón, Mexico, first held in 1989 and sponsored by Grupo Lala. The marathon runs through Torreón's metro area, which is known as...
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    Keys Marathon International Airport (IATA: MTH, ICAO: KMTH, FAA LID: MTH) is a public airport located along the Overseas Highway (US1) in Marathon, in...
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    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...
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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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    the poet (1977) The Tortoise and the Hare, Nancy Schön (1994) The Boston Marathon Centennial Monument, Mark Flannery (1994). Additions by Robert Shure...
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    Rosa Mota (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    1990, she returned to Boston to win for a third time beating Uta Pippig. After that she attempted to defend her European Marathon Championship in Split...
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