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The 2024 Boston Marathon was the 128th official edition of the annual marathon race in Boston, Massachusetts, run on Monday, April 15, 2024. [1] [2] [3] [4] A ...
Aurèle Vandendriessche won back-to-back marathons in 1963 and 1964. Ron Hill set a course record at the 1970 Boston Marathon. Bill Rodgers won the race four times between 1975 and 1980. Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won the race four times, and set two course records. Geoffrey Mutai holds the current course record, 2:03:02, set in 2011.
kathrineswitzer.com. Kathrine Virginia Switzer (born January 5, 1947) [1] is an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator. [2] In the year 1967, she became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor. [3] During her run, the race manager Jock Semple assaulted Switzer, trying to grab her ...
April 15, 2024 at 9:39 AM. More than 30,000 runners are running from Hopkinton to Boston today, April 15, for the 128th running of the Boston Marathon. With three of the elite races complete Sisay ...
In the 2024 Summer Olympics, the women's marathon will be the final event, as recognition of gender equality and women's rights, with the men's going off the day before. [10] The Olympic records for the event are 2:06:26 hours for men, set by Tamirat Tola in 2024, and 2:23:07 hours for women, set by Tiki Gelana in 2012.
In the women’s wheelchair race, American Susannah Scaroni won her first Boston title, crossing the line in 1:41.45. Her victory followed runner-up finishes in 2018 and 2022.
The 2024 edition of the Boston Marathon will again see some of the world’s best distance runners compete alongside a large mass participation field.. First held in the 19th century, a tough 26.2 ...
1980 Boston Marathon. Rosie M. Vivas [1] ( née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other 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 when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.