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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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    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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    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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    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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    Patriots' Day (category Boston Marathon)
    each year, with celebrations including battle reenactments and the Boston Marathon. In 1894, the Lexington Historical Society petitioned the Massachusetts...
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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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    Uta Pippig (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    Pippig (born 7 September 1965) is a retired German long-distance runner, and the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times...
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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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    Abebe Bikila (category Ethiopian male marathon runners)
    sixteen marathons. He placed second on his first marathon in Addis Ababa, won twelve other races, and finished fifth in the 1963 Boston Marathon. In July...
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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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    Johnny Hayes (category American male marathon runners)
    10, 1886 – August 25, 1965) was an American athlete, a member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and winner of the marathon race at the 1908 Summer...
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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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    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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    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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  • Child, produced and broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to January 14, 1973. It was one of...
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    Michael Cox (police officer) (category People from Boston)
    Michael A. Cox (born June 17, 1965) is an American police officer, currently serving as the commissioner of the Boston Police Department. He previously...
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    Boston requested the lighting of the Prudential Tower with the number "1" in support of The One Fund Boston and those affected by the Boston Marathon...
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    after one Boston marathon, someone yelled, "Hey, Segal, you run better than you write". Segal was featured in the 1965 documentary short Marathon, which...
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  • Morio Shigematsu (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    looks back on his Marathon World records . IAAF (2009-05-30). Retrieved on 2015-01-23. 1965 article from The Times Boston Marathon History Archived 2017-10-03...
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    Walter A. Brown (category Boston Bruins executives)
    the Boston Athletic Association from 1941 to 1964. In 1951 during the height of the Korean War, Brown denied Koreans entry into the Boston Marathon. He...
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    International Marathon and Half Marathon is a road race in Southern California. The race was first run in 1965 and was one of the first marathons in California...
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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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    Hynes Convention Center station (category Railway stations located underground in Boston)
    entrance was reopened in 1965. Both were closed in the 1980s, though the Boylston Street entrance is still used during the Boston Marathon and major events at...
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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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  • 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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  • Moses Tanui (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    He also won the 100th Boston Marathon in 1996 as well as the 102nd Boston Marathon in 1998. Tanui won the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1995...
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    since Boston Marathon bombings". 12 April 2023. "An Effort to Curtail the Use of Tear Gas on Protesters Is Underway in Massachusetts". Boston. 2020-06-03...
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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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  • 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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    organization formed a close association with the city of Boston and its people in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing that occurred on April 15, 2013. On April...
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