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The Hamilton Herald Newspaper and cigar store owner "Billy" Carroll, originated and sponsored the "Herald Road Race", the first Around the Bay Road Race, run on Christmas Day, 1894. Thirteen racers ran the 19 mile and 168 yard course around Hamilton Harbour. Billy Marshall won the race and was awarded a $25 silver cup and some boxes of cigars.
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]
1894 – Hamilton Herald newspaper and cigar store owner Billy Carroll established the Around the Bay Road Race. Although it is not a proper marathon, it is the longest continuously held long-distance foot race in North America. [5] 1895 – Wentworth incline railway begins operation in August 1895. (1895–1936) [29] [30]
The Around the Bay Road Race circumnavigates Hamilton Harbour or Burlington Bay. Although it is not a proper marathon, it is the longest continuously held long distance foot race in North America, held in Hamilton since 1894, 3-years before the Boston Marathon. [1]
She is the winner of the 1985 and 1987 Around the Bay Road Race, the 1986 and 1988 Subaru 4-Mile Chase (in Buffalo, New York), the 1985 Grandma's Marathon, the 1988 Toronto Marathon, the 1984 Avon Women's NYC Half Marathon, and was second at the 1984 Marine Corps Marathon.
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