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    The 1898 Boston Marathon, contemporarily referred to as the Boston Athletic Association's annual marathon race, was the second edition of the marathon 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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  • the Boston Marathon, the B.A.A. 5K, the B.A.A. 10K, the B.A.A. Half Marathon, the B.A.A. Distance Medley (comprising the 5k, 10K, and half marathon events)...
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    The 1901 Boston Marathon was the fifth edition of the marathon race from Ashland to Boston, Massachusetts, United States on April 19, 1901. The event...
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    The 1897 Boston Marathon was the inaugural edition of the marathon race that became known as the Boston Marathon. At the time it was run, the race was...
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    Ronald MacDonald (athlete) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    was a Canadian runner, best known as the winner of the second Boston Marathon in 1898. He later became a successful physician in Nova Scotia. MacDonald...
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    decrease to the "Boston effect", whereby marathon runners chose other marathons to run in order to qualify for the 2014 Boston Marathon. Lubec has a humid...
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    Retrieved 23 August 2020. "Boston Marathon history - Boston Globe". archive.boston.com. Retrieved 14 July 2023. "History | Boston Athletic Association". www...
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    Dave Komonen (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    (December 16, 1898 – April 19, 1978) was a Finnish-Canadian athlete, who mainly competed in marathon running. He won the Boston Marathon in 1934, after...
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  • Saucony (category Clothing companies established in 1898)
    doughnut-themed shoes for Boston Marathon". WTHR.com. Indianapolis. 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-23. "2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials - Track and Field...
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  • Retrieved 5 February 2021. Boston Athletic Association (2011). "Boston Marathon History: 1897-1900". www.baa.org. Boston: Boston Athletic Association. Archived...
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  • John Lordan (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    August 18, 1909, Lorden raced a marathon in St. John’s, Newfoundland against his former teammate and 1898 Boston Marathon champion Ronald MacDonald on a...
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  • John McDermott (runner) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    or "little Mac", he won the first marathon run in the United States in 1896, as well as the inaugural Boston Marathon, then known as the B.A.A. Road Race...
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    Gelindo Bordin (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    an Olympic gold in the marathon and the only male to win both the Boston Marathon and the Olympic gold medal in this event. Born in Vicenza, Italy, Bordin...
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  • Tuesday Club formed. 1897 April 19: Boston Marathon begins. September 3: Park Street (MBTA station) opens. 1898 – YMCA "Evening Institute for Younger...
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  • Leetch, 1990, retired NHL defenseman Ronald MacDonald, 1898, second winner of the Boston Marathon Mike Mamula, 1995, NFL defensive end/linebacker Kelvin...
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    Lawrence Brignolia (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    runner and sculler of Italian descent. He won the third running of the Boston Marathon, in 1899. A 161-pound (73 kg) blacksmith, he remains the heaviest person...
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    World Series win in 2018. Boston sports continue to dominate. On April 15, 2013, two bombs were detonated during the Boston Marathon, killing three people...
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  • Sammy Mellor (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    was an American long-distance runner who won the 1902 Boston Marathon and competed in the marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. Mellor...
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    Road, on the outskirts of Boston. Boston Rowing Club, near Carlton Road, hosts the annual 33 miles (53 km) Boston Rowing Marathon each year in mid-September...
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    Lawrence Cherono (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    fastest marathon performer of all time with his 2:03:04 clocking at the 2020 Valencia Marathon. Cherono is a past winner of both the Boston and Chicago...
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    cross-country teams. As a 17-year-old senior in high school, he ran the Boston Marathon. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts...
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    Olympic Champion 5000 metres Catherine Ndereba, four-time Boston Marathon Champion, Olympic marathon silver medalist in 2004 and 2008. Henry Wanyoike, Paralympics...
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  • June 22, 2024. "Vistra Set to Join S&P 500; Aaon to Join S&P MidCap 400; Marathon Digital Holdings to Join S&P SmallCap 600" (PDF). S&P Dow Jones Indices...
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    Chinatown, Boston (Cantonese: 唐人街; Jyutping: Tong4jan4gaai1) is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the only...
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  • (1902–1986) Albin Stenroos – marathon runner, Olympic champion (1889–1971) Olavi Suomalainen – marathon runner (Boston Marathon winner 1972) Armas Taipale...
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    capture the Marathonian Bull, an emblem of Cretan power. On the way to Marathon, Theseus took shelter from a storm in the hut of an ancient woman named...
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  • and July 25 Greece experienced a national tragedy when a huge fire near Marathon in Attika killed 100 people. The inefficient fire service is said to have...
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    September 1898, bringing subway service to the area with a stone headhouse in the center of the square. Court Street station opened on the East Boston Tunnel...
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    accessible online. MIT has its own police force. Three days after the Boston Marathon bombing of April 2013, MIT Police patrol officer Sean Collier was fatally...
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