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Men's wheelchair winner Marcel Hug and women's wheelchair winner Eden Rainbow-Cooper pose together after their victories The 2024 Boston Marathon was the 128th official edition of the annual marathon race in Boston , Massachusetts , run on Monday, April 15, 2024 .
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.
Marathon. 2024 Boston. Marathon. Hellen Onsando Obiri (born 13 December 1989) [1] is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. She is the only woman to have won world titles in indoor track, outdoor track and cross country. Obiri is a two-time Olympic 5,000 metres silver medallist from the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she also ...
Marathon. Sara Hall (née Bei; born April 15, 1983) is a professional American distance runner for ASICS. Hall's personal best time for the marathon is 2:20:32 set at the Marathon Project in Chandler, Arizona on December 22, 2020, making her the third-fastest American woman in history. [ 1 ][ 2 ] She is the second-fastest American woman ever to ...
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] The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world's best-known road racing events.
Sara Hall came in 15th (2:27:58), followed by 2018 Boston winner Des Linden in 16th (2:28:27). Bates surged into the lead between the 18th and 19th mile, ahead of a chase pack of more than a dozen ...
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 ...
Men's winner Sisay Lemma and women's victor Hellen Obiri led a field of 30,000 runners from 100 countries at this year's Boston Marathon. ... 2024 at 12:17 PM.