• The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally...
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    The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the...
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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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    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 women's wheelchair race at the Berlin Marathon (2011), Boston Marathon (2002 and 2006) and New York Marathon (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009). Hunkeler...
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    died at the age of 28 while participating in the 2002 Boston Marathon. It was Lucero's second marathon. At mile 22, Lucero complained of feeling "dehydrated...
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    Catherine Ndereba (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    Loop (half marathon) winner. Boston Marathon winner Chicago Marathon winner in a world record time 2002 Finished second at the Boston Marathon. Also finished...
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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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  • 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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    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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    The 2003 Boston Marathon was the 107th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States and was held on April 21. The elite men's race was...
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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    the Boston Marathon and the positive impact that came with the race.[citation needed] During its formative period (1973–1978) the Honolulu Marathon doubled...
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    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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    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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    Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    at the end of 2002, the first one of three. He won the Boston Marathon in 2003, 2006, 2007 and most recently in 2008. His 2006 Boston finishing time...
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    Sohn Kee-chung (category Korean male marathon runners)
    runners such as Suh Yun-Bok, the winner of the Boston Marathon in 1947; Ham Kee-Yong, winner of the Boston Marathon in 1950; and Hwang Young-Cho, who was the...
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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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    Paula Radcliffe (category Chicago Marathon female winners)
    winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), the 2002 Chicago Marathon winner and the 2005...
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    Team Hoyt (category Boston Marathon)
    Massachusetts. The Hoyts competed together in marathons—including over 30 editions of the Boston Marathon—and Ironman Triathlons. Rick had cerebral palsy...
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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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    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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    boston.gov. Retrieved August 25, 2023. Pokorny 2002, pp. 43–44 Powers, John (April 16, 2010). "Evolution of the Boston Marathon finish line". Boston Globe...
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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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