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The Bix 7 Road Race is held annually in Davenport, Iowa, as a commemoration to Davenport native and jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. It is followed a week later by the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival .
Rodgers has run the Bix 7 road race in Davenport, Iowa, every year since 1980, earning the local nickname "Bix Billy". A bronze statue of Rodgers and Joan Benoit Samuelson was erected near the Bix finish line in 2007.
Bix 7 Road Race and Memorial Jazz Festival refers to a pair of related, but separate, events held on consecutive weekends: Bix 7 Road Race;
Winning the race four times, Benoit has run the Bix 7 road race in Davenport, Iowa, annually since 1983. A bronze statue of Benoit and Bill Rodgers was erected near the Bix finish line in 2007. [15] [16] Benoit resides in Freeport, Maine, [17] where the high school athletic complex is named the "Joan Benoit Samuelson Track and Field". [18]
Davenport, Iowa's annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival commemorates Bix Beiderbecke, a famous jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer who was born in Davenport in 1903. It is one of the largest jazz festivals in the United States. It is held on the weekend after the Bix 7 Road Race, another local event named for Beiderbecke.
With 110,000 participants, the Bay to Breakers race held on May 18, 1986, in San Francisco, California was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest footrace. [2] On October 10, 2010, 116,086 out of 160,000 registered runners in Manila were reported to have finished a run entitled "10.10.10 A Run for the Pasig ...
On July 24, 2010, Uhl won the Bix 7 Road Race in Davenport, Iowa, capturing the US seven mile road racing championship. [ 16 ] In 2010, Uhl deferred entry to veterinary school at Iowa State University to move to Portland, Oregon to run for Nike under a new coach, Jerry Schumacher . [ 17 ]
Bix (website), a defunct contest website owned by Yahoo! Annual events named for Beiderbecke in Davenport, Iowa Bix 7 Road Race; Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival; Bix Barton, a comic book character in the British science fiction anthology magazine 2000 AD; Bix, a fictional Protoceratops in the Dinotopia books by James Gurney