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Runners start the 39th Los Angeles Marathon at Dodger Stadium on Sunday. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) The following is the unofficial list of top finishers in the 2024 L.A. Marathon .
The Los Angeles Marathon (formerly known as the City of Los Angeles Marathon) is an annual running event typically held each spring in Los Angeles, California, since 1986. The marathon was inspired by the success of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games hosted in Los Angeles. It is one of the five largest marathons in the country, with more than 20,000 ...
The 2019 Los Angeles Marathon, ... It was the closest finish in the Los Angeles men's marathon history. Askale Merachi won the women's race with a time of 2:24:11. [8]
This was the 20th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning runners from the 1980 marathon included silver medalist Gerard Nijboer of the Netherlands, sixth-place finisher Rodolfo Gómez of Mexico, ninth-place finisher (and 1972 silver and 1976 bronze medalist) Karel Lismont of Belgium, and tenth-place finisher Robert de ...
Stacy Ndiwa won the women's elite division of the L.A. Marathon for the second consecutive year, shaving 5:32 off last year's effort on Sunday. Dominic Ngeno, Stacy Ndiwa celebrate after winning ...
The race included an estimated 15,000 runners from around the country — and the world — covering a 26.2-mile course through L.A. neighborhoods.
With cloudy skies and cool temperatures, more than 20,000 participants took to the streets Sunday for the 38th annual Los Angeles Marathon.
The marathon at the Summer Olympics is the only road running event held at the multi-sport event. The men's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first modern Olympics in 1896. Nearly ninety years later, the women's event was added to the programme at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.