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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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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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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The Boston Rowing Marathon is a rowing head race taking place on the third Sunday of September annually in Lincolnshire, England, over the exceptionally...
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Ham Kee-yong (category Boston Marathon male winners)
was a South Korean marathoner, best known as the winner of the 1950 Boston Marathon. On 19 April 1950, he won the Boston Marathon with a record time of...
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Arthur Roth (category Boston Marathon male winners)
1891 – October 10, 1950) was an American long-distance runner who won the 1916 Boston Marathon and competed in the men's marathon at the 1920 Summer 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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Boston Marathon. A post office called Marathon has been in operation since 1882. The name of the city commemorates the Battle of Marathon. Marathon is...
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Johnny Kelley (category Boston Marathon male winners)
the Boston Marathon. He finished in second place at Boston a record seven times. Between 1934 and 1950, he finished in the top five 15 times at Boston, consistently...
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James Henigan (category Boston Marathon male winners)
February 27, 1950) was an American long-distance runner. He competed at the 1924, 1928 and the 1932 Summer Olympics. He also won the Boston Marathon in 1931...
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Sohn Kee-chung (category Korean male marathon 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 gold...
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United States, 25 miles (40 km) west of Boston. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriots' Day each...
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Gérard Côté (category Boston Marathon male winners)
(July 26, 1913 – 12 June 1993) was a Canadian marathon runner and a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon. Born in Saint-Barnabé-Sud, Quebec, Côté was...
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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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Harry Smith (runner) (redirect from Harry Smith (marathoner))
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 oldest marathon in Europe and the third-oldest in the world (after the Boston Marathon, first held in 1897, and the Yonkers Marathon, first held...
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Clarence A. Barnes (category Presidents of the Boston Athletic Association)
1936 to 1940, Barnes was the president of the Boston Athletic Association, organizer of the Boston Marathon. Barnes political career began in Mansfield...
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Lubec, Maine (redirect from Bay of Fundy International Marathon)
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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John J. Kelley (category Boston Marathon male winners)
during his college years. From 1950 to 1954, he attended Boston University, located about a mile from the Boston Marathon finish line. While there, he excelled...
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Ron Hill (category Boston Marathon male winners)
personal marathon record of 2:09:28. In 1970, Hill won the 74th Boston Marathon in a course record 2:10:30. He also won gold medals for the marathon at the...
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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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band for reasons not directly related to the franchise, such as the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, and the death of Isaiah Thomas' younger sister during...
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Mateo Flores (runner) (category Boston Marathon male winners)
long-distance runner who won several international events, including the Boston Marathon in 1952. Guamuch was born in Cotió, Mixco, a city near Guatemala City...
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Atlantic Division (NBA) (category Boston Celtics)
schedule. †In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, the NBA canceled the April 16 game scheduled in Boston between the Celtics and the Pacers;...
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Gösta Leandersson (category Boston Marathon male winners)
April 1918 – 1995) was a Swedish marathon runner. He won the Košice Peace Marathon in 1948 and 1950 and Boston Marathon in 1949. At the European championships...
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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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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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Ethiopian footballer Hailu Negussie (born 1978), Ethiopian marathon runner and 2005 Boston Marathon winner Hailu Yimenu (died 1991), Ethiopian Prime Minister...
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