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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 ...
Rabbits Abel Kirui, Elijah Keitany [] and Wilson Kigen [] pacing Haile Gebrselassie and Charles Kamathi at the Berlin Marathon 2008. A pacemaker or pacesetter, sometimes informally called a rabbit, [1] is a runner who leads a middle-or long-distance running event for the first section to ensure a high speed and to avoid excessive tactical racing.
Runners start the 39th Los Angeles Marathon at Dodger Stadium on Sunday. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) The following is the unofficial list of top finishers in the 2024 L.A. Marathon .
The women's marathon was introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles, US) and was won by Joan Benoit of the United States with a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and 52 seconds. [ 21 ] It has become a tradition for the men's Olympic marathon to be the last event of the athletics calendar, on the final day of the Olympics. [ 22 ]
Liu, who finished with a time of 3 hours and 19 minutes, said he started running six years ago, to mark his age, 42, which matched the length of a marathon at 42.195 kilometers.
Over 25,000 runners competed this year in Sunday's L.A. Marathon. Check out The Times' photographers view of the race.
Disneyland Marathon and 5K were run in 1995 three weeks after the LA Marathon on March 26, 1995. ... days for the first time at the World Weekend. 3,000 runners ...
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.