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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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  • Joe Smith (athlete) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    Bernard Joseph Smith (1917 – January 25, 1993) was an American marathon runner. He was the winner of the 1942 Boston Marathon with a course record of...
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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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    Clarence DeMar (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    U.S. marathoner, winner of seven Boston Marathons, and Bronze medalist at the 1924 Paris Olympics. He was known by the nickname "Mr. DeMarathon." DeMar...
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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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    States, after the Boston Marathon. It is held on the third Sunday in October. In addition to the marathon, there is a half marathon race and a 5K course...
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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 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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    Thomas Hicks (athlete) (category American male marathon runners)
    1905 Boston Marathon was legitimately won by Lorz. However, on June 30, 1906, Hicks finished three minutes ahead of Alexander Thibeau to win a marathon at...
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  • Arthur Roth (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    an American long-distance runner who won the 1916 Boston Marathon and competed in the men's marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Roth was born in Dorchester...
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    Tom Longboat (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    resident of the reserve, Bill Davis, who in 1901 finished second in the Boston Marathon, interested him in running races. He began racing in 1905, finishing...
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    people of Boston by the people of Nova Scotia in thanks for their assistance after the 1917 Halifax Explosion. The tree is lit in the Boston Common throughout...
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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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    Albin Stenroos (category Finnish male marathon runners)
    marathon in 1924. He won the race in hot conditions, beating second-placed Romeo Bertini by almost six minutes. He placed second at the 1926 Boston Marathon...
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    Hynes Convention Center station (category Railway stations located underground in Boston)
    handle the spectators from the Boston Marathon (when Copley station is closed), as well as for large events like Anime Boston at the convention center. For...
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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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    George V. Brown (category Boston Marathon)
    sports and sporting events in the United States, most notably the Boston Marathon and amateur ice hockey. From 1904 to 1936, Brown served the United...
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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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    Ekiden (redirect from Marathon relay)
    for women for six stages over the marathon distance. The first ekiden race was sponsored by the Yomiuri Shimbun in 1917, and was run over three days between...
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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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  • retired NHL defenseman Ronald MacDonald, 1898, second winner of the Boston Marathon Mike Mamula, 1995, NFL defensive end/linebacker Kelvin Martin, 1987...
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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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    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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    Boston reporters, only Eddie Murphy of the New York Sun and Tommy Rice of the Brooklyn Eagle had covered the game. As word got out about the marathon...
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    United Church of Christ High Victorian Gothic architecture in America Boston history and architecture Old South Bell for Boston Marathon on YouTube 2007...
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    Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin. Construction began in 1859...
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  • people. 2019 – Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. 2019 – The Hard...
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  • Mekonnen (born 1964), Ethiopian former long-distance runner and 1989 Boston Marathon winner Abebe Wakgira (born 1921), Ethiopian Olympic long-distance runner...
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    American football player Valentine Kipketer (born 1993), Kenyan half marathon and marathon runner Valentine Nekesa (born 1997), Kenyan entrepreneut Val Page...
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