• The 1991 Boston Marathon was the 95th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 15. The elite men's race 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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    Benson Kipruto (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    (born 17 March 1991) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He won the 125th Boston Marathon in 2021 (2:09:51), the 2022 Chicago Marathon (2:04:24) and the...
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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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  • The 1990 Boston Marathon was the 94th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 16. The elite men's race 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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  • 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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    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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  • The 1992 Boston Marathon was the 96th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 20. The elite men's race was...
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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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    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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    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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    Sarah Sellers (category American female marathon runners)
    cross-country. In her marathon debut, she won the Huntsville Marathon in Utah to qualify for the 2018 Boston Marathon. At the 2018 Boston Marathon, she finished...
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    Uta Pippig (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times (1990, 1992 and 1995);...
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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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    Rosa Mota (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    1990, she returned to Boston to win for a third time beating Uta Pippig. After that she attempted to defend her European Marathon Championship in Split...
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    Catherine Ndereba (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    winner of the Boston Marathon and a two-time winner of the Chicago Marathon. It was at the latter in 2001 that she broke the women's marathon world record...
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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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    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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  • Liz McColgan (category Recipients of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races Best Marathon Runner Award)
    Majors: at the 1991 New York City Marathon, 1992 Tokyo Marathon and 1996 London Marathon. McColgan's 10,000 metres best of 30:57.07 set in 1991, moved her...
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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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    Eliud Kipchoge (category Recipients of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races Best Marathon Runner Award)
    Berlin Marathon, where Kipsang broke the world record, an eighth-place finish at the 2020 London Marathon and a sixth place in his debut at the Boston Marathon...
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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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    where she resided at the time. At the autumn running of the 2021 Boston Marathon, Lindwurm ran well through the first half to be one of only two American...
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  • nearly 10,000 competitors annually in all races. The full marathon is a certified Boston Marathon qualifier. Two course records were set at the 2011 edition...
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    Ryan Hall (runner) (category American male marathon runners)
    event. He is also the only American to run a sub-2:05 marathon (2:04:58 at the 2011 Boston marathon). However, this time is not eligible to be a record...
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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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    qualify for the Boston Marathon in 2010. The event has sold-out in mid-August the past eight years. There are 7,000 runners in the full marathon and 11,000...
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    The Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1991 "Push Rim Wheelchair Division History", 2012 Boston Marathon media guide, Boston Athletic Association and John Hancock...
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