• The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally...
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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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  • Boston Marathon qualifying standards allow runners to qualify for the Boston Marathon by running a previous marathon with a stipulated result within a...
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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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    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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    Edna Kiplagat (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    Kiplagat (born 15 November 1979) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner. She was the 2011 and 2013 World Champion in the marathon. She established herself...
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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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    Al Howie (category Canadian male marathon runners)
    Vancouver Island, 1978. First marathon: "Prince George to Boston," 1979. Best marathon: 2:29:11 Vancouver, May 2, 1982. Marathons: scores. First Ultramarathon:...
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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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  • The Rio de Janeiro Marathon is an annual road-based marathon hosted by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 1979. The marathon is a World Athletics Label Road...
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    Joan Benoit (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    collegiate cross country runner for 1979–80. After returning to Bowdoin to complete her degree, she entered the 1979 Boston Marathon as a relative unknown. She...
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  • Rosie Ruiz (category Boston Marathon)
    schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race...
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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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  • 1979 and is a Boston Marathon qualifying event. The first Saskatchewan Marathon was run May 12, 1979. During the first two years, the marathon was held in...
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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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  • Jock Semple (category Boston Marathon)
    official. In 1967, as a race official for the Boston Marathon, he attempted to stop the 20-year-old marathon runner Kathrine Switzer from continuing to run...
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  • World Athletics Label Road Races marathon runs. Sports portal Lists portal World Athletics Label Road Races World Marathon Majors "Sydney Running Festival"...
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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. Athol...
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  • Toshihiko Seko (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    notable marathon wins include Fukuoka Marathon (1978–1980, 1983), Boston Marathon (1981, 1987), London Marathon (1986) and Chicago Marathon (1986). On...
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  • and half-marathon in addition to the traditional marathon race. The marathon was first held in 1979 as the Macy's Marathon. In 2005, the marathon was just...
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  • London Marathon (also known as the TCS London Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon held in London, England. It is the largest marathon in...
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  • Marathon is the oldest annual marathon race in the province of New Brunswick, starting with only a few hundred runners in 1979, it has grown into one of 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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    university has experienced since a 1979 strike which lasted two weeks and four days. A second concurrent strike by the Boston University Residence Life Union...
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    Jacqueline Gareau (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    Jacqueline Gareau (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian runner who won the Boston Marathon on April 21, 1980. Gareau led the women's field for most of the race...
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  • Miki Gorman (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    as one of the elite marathoning women of the mid-1970s. She is the only woman to win both the Boston and New York City marathons twice and is the first...
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    Alberto Salazar (category Boston Marathon male winners)
    school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the "Duel in the Sun"...
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    Frank McCourt (executive) (category Businesspeople from Boston)
    Chesto, Jon (May 10, 2019). "The rights to the LA Marathon will be owned by a Boston charity". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 9, 2021. "The McCourt Foundation...
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    Kara Goucher (category American female marathon runners)
    2012 London Olympics. She made her marathon debut in 2008 and finished third the following year at the Boston Marathon. She competed collegiately for the...
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