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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.
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 held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. [ 1] Begun in 1897, the event was inspired by the success of the first marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics. [ 2]
2022 →. The 2021 Boston Marathon was the 125th official running [1] [a] of the annual marathon race held in Boston, Massachusetts, and 123rd time it was run on course (excluding the virtual event of 2020, and the ekiden of 1918). [2] It took place on October 11, 2021.
The 2018 Boston Marathon was the 122nd running of the Boston Athletic Association 's Boston Marathon. It took place on Monday, April 16, 2018 ( Patriots' Day in Massachusetts). [ 1] The race was held in unusually cold weather at 39 °F (4 °C) with rain. [ 2] Yuki Kawauchi won the men's foot race in 2:15:58 and Desiree Linden won the women's ...
The 2022 Boston Marathon was a marathon race held in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 18, 2022. It was the 126th official running of the race, [ 1] and 124th time it was run on course (excluding the virtual event of 2020, and the ekiden of 1918). [ 2] The field was limited to 30,000 runners.
Individual. William Henry Rodgers (born December 23, 1947) is an American runner, Olympian, 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 to 1980, and 4 straight wins in the New York City Marathon, between 1976 and 1979.
Even before his Boston win, Lemma already had good credentials with a course-record 2 hours, 1 minute, 48 seconds in Valencia last year that was the fourth-fastest ever run in a competitive marathon.
Suh Yun-bok. Suh Yun-bok (9 January 1923 – 27 June 2017) [ 1] was a South Korean marathoner, who is best known as the winner of the 1947 Boston Marathon. [ 2] He won the race with a world best time of 2:25:39 under the coach Sohn Kee-chung, the Korean winner of the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. His participation in the Boston Marathon ...