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Hollywood Half Marathon is an annual road running event over the half marathon distance 21.0975 kilometres (13.1094 mi), which is held each spring in Hollywood, California. The race was inaugurated in 2012 and has been held every year since then to raise funds and awareness for Los Angeles youth homeless shelters. [ 1 ]
Los Angeles Marathon: Los Angeles, California: United States: 8 March 2020 Marathon 28,300 [70] 74 Clean Thagadur Marathon-5K Dharmapuri, Tamilnadu: India: 6 January 2019 5K 21,222 [82] 75 Seoul International Marathon: Seoul: South Korea: 13 March 2005 Marathon 21,067 [83] 76 Naha Marathon: Naha: Japan: 6 December 2009 Marathon 20,860 [79] 77 ...
The Los Angeles Marathon (formerly known as the City of Los Angeles Marathon) is an annual running event typically held each spring in Los Angeles, California, since 1986. The marathon was inspired by the success of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games hosted in Los Angeles. It is one of the five largest marathons in the country, with more than 20,000 ...
Runners start the 39th Los Angeles Marathon at Dodger Stadium on Sunday. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) 10. Ashley DeSanno, 3:01:19. 11. Paulina Avila, 3:01:30. 12. Nadine Robinson, 3:02:29.
Trisha Paddock, 46, of Rancho Palos Verdes, collapsed Sunday at the Los Angeles Marathon finish line, She later died, race organizers say.
Stacy Ndiwa won the women's elite division of the L.A. Marathon for the second consecutive year, shaving 5:32 off last year's effort on Sunday. Dominic Ngeno, Stacy Ndiwa celebrate after winning ...
In 2008, the Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing.
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [2]