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The Around the Bay Road Race (ATB) is a long distance road race annually in Hamilton, Ontario. The event features a 30 kilometer race, [a] a 5 kilometer race, a 10 kilometer race, a 15 kilometer race, and virtual races. [3] First held in 1894, it is the oldest long distance road race in North America. [4]
After his death, the Around the Bay Road Race was renamed the Billy Sherring Memorial Road Race, and Hamilton has since built a Billy Sherring Park to commemorate their most famous athlete. Sherring is thought to have inspired the founders of Panathinaikos to adopt the shamrock as the Greek multi-sport club's official emblem in 1918. [9]
His first important victory was in the Around the Bay Road Race in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1906, which he won by three minutes. In 1907 he won the Boston Marathon in a record time of 2:24:24 over the old 24 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile (39.4 km) course, four minutes and 59 seconds faster than any of the previous ten winners of the event.
All terrain bike, an off-road bicycle now best known as mountain bike; All terrain boarding, an extreme sport also known as mountain boarding; Around the Bay Road Race, a 30 km road race held every March in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Aug. 3—The annual Circle the Bay road run is less than two weeks away. The 30-kilometer race around the waters of Coos Bay will be held on Saturday, Aug. 12, starting and ending at Ferry Road ...
The Around the Bay Road Race in nearby Hamilton, Ontario, first run in 1894, also claims the title of Oldest Long-Distance Road Race in North America, although that race was not held during World War I, a ten-year stretch between 1925 and 1935, or in 2020 or 2021.
Some road races are kicked off with an air horn, or maybe a small gun. Others begin with a cannon blast. At the “Storm the Bay” races — which brought more than 200 racers Saturday to Ocean ...