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The starting line of the 2018 Marine Corps Marathon. On October 17, 1975, MCM founder Colonel James L. Fowler wrote a memo to his supervisor, Major General Michael P. Ryan, outlining his idea of creating a Marine Corps Reserve Marathon to promote goodwill between the military and the post-Vietnam community. Colonel Fowler believed an event like ...
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The otherwise sleepy New England town of Hopkinton celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line for the world's oldest and most prestigious marathon, sending off a field of 17 former ...
Statue of the Hoyts located near the start of the Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Team Hoyt was inducted to the Ironman Hall of Fame in 2008. [21] [22] On April 8, 2013, a bronze statue in honor of the Hoyts was dedicated near the start of the Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. [23]
In 2013, sculptor Mike Tabor created a statue commemorating them that is located near the starting line in Hopkinton. Dick Hoyt died in 2021, at age 80, and Rick Hoyt died last May, at 61.
For the past 100 years, the Boston Marathon has started in Hopkinton before going through MetroWest and into Boston.
More than 33,000 registered runners — a new record — will toe the starting line in Hopkinton for the 26.2-mile trip to Boston on Monday. Many are your neighbors, people you see in everyday life.
Hopkinton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, 25 miles (40 km) west of Boston. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriots' Day each April, and as the headquarters for the Dell EMC corporation. At the 2020 census, the town had a population of 18,758. [2]