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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 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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    Semple, Boston's Mr. Marathon, pages 7, 114–118, Waterford Publishing Co., ISBN 978-0942052015 Boston Marathon History. baa.org Boston Marathon History:...
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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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    "Bostonians" or "the Bostons"; or the "Americans" or "Boston Americans" as in "American Leaguers", Boston being a two-team city. Their 1901–1907 jerseys, both...
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  • Sammy Mellor (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    early stars" of the Boston Marathon. He finished in the top 10 six out of nine years between 1901 and 1909. In the 1901 Boston Marathon, Mellor finished...
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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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    Jack Caffery (runner) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    of winners of the Boston Marathon "HAMILTON'S CHAMPION LOWERS THE RECORD, THE MARATHON RACE WINNERS". The Hamilton Spectator. 1901-04-24. p. 3. Retrieved...
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    Ronald MacDonald (athlete) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    1947) 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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  • sponsored by Exygon Gym and Baptist Hospitals. The Gusher in Gusher Marathon refers to the 1901 discovery of oil at the spindletop salt dome in Beaumont. The...
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    Thomas Hicks (athlete) (category American male marathon runners)
    the 2016 Summer Olympics. Hicks finished in sixth place at the Boston Marathon in both 1901 and 1902. In the Fall of the latter year he relocated to Minneapolis...
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    Retrieved 5 February 2021. Boston Athletic Association (2011). "Boston Marathon History: 1901-1905". www.baa.org. Boston: Boston Athletic Association. Archived...
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    including: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern, and Harvard. The city is also home to prestigious sports events such as the Boston Marathon and the...
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    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 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death on June 24, 2015, for his role in the terrorist attack of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings...
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  • the Marathon". Boston Marathon. Boston Athletic Association. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Who We Are, French Cultural Center of Boston, retrieved...
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  • public appearances related to the Boston Marathon bombing. The Boston Globe maintains two distinct major websites: BostonGlobe.com is a subscriber-supported...
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    Port of Boston (Massport) Cape Cod Canal Annual sporting events include: The Boston Marathon, which follows a course from Hopkinton to Boston The Head...
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    Boston Red Sox have gone through a limited number of changes throughout the history of the team. Boston Americans logo used from 1901 to 1907 Boston Red...
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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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    mayor of Boston is the head of the municipal government in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Boston has a mayor–council government. Boston's mayoral...
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  • John Lordan (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    finishing fifth in 1901 and third in 1902, Lordan finished ahead of Sammy Mellor and Michael Spring to win the 1903 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:41:29...
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    within walking distance of The Atrium. Each April on Patriots' Day, the Boston Marathon is run through the city, entering from Wellesley on Route 16 (Washington...
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  • marathon runner (Boston Marathon winner 1954) Elias Katz – runner, Olympic champion (3,000m team steeplechase) and silver (3,000m steeplechase) (1901–1947)...
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    from Cleveland Circle in Brighton to Route 16 in Newton is along the Boston Marathon route, and is known to be especially hilly, containing the three “Newton...
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    The North End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the city's oldest residential community, having been inhabited since it...
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    Rose Pitonof (1895–1984) – marathon swimmer Martin Richard – raised in Dorchester; one of three people killed in Boston Marathon bombing Richard Scarry –...
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    is an area in downtown Boston, centered on City Hall Plaza. Formerly the site of Scollay Square, it is now the location of Boston City Hall, courthouses...
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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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    vice versa in even-numbered years. The city hosts the Toronto Waterfront Marathon annually, one of the World Athletics Label Road Races. Toronto also hosts...
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