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Marathon battle memorial. The beach of Schinias is located southeast of the town. The beach is popular as a spot for windsurfing and the Olympic Rowing Center used for the 2004 Summer Olympics is also located there. At the 1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics, Marathon was the starting point of the marathon races (for both women and men in 2004).
The site was best known in antiquity for its sanctuary of Nemesis, [2] the implacable avenging goddess, her most important in ancient Greece. Rhamnous is the best-preserved Attic deme site. It was strategically significant on the sea routes and was fortified with an Athenian garrison of ephebes (young men).
The Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre (Ολυμπιακό Κωπηλατοδρόμιο Σχοινιά) was built to host the rowing and canoe sprint events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece. [1] It is the most northerly venue of the 2004 Games situated to the east of the town of Marathon.
The Crescent Beach is finally poised for a comeback, this time with a local restaurateur at the helm ― a Greece native who plans to bring back the former feel of the iconic restaurant, but with ...
Nea Makri (Greek: Νέα Μάκρη) is a town in East Attica, Greece. Since the local government reform of 2011, it has been a municipal unit within the municipality of Marathon. [2] The municipal unit has an area of 36.662 km 2. [3] It is part of the Athens metropolitan area. [4]
The WMA was created in 1982 after the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSOPRHP) transferred all but approximately 375 acres (1.52 km 2) of the former Braddock Bay State Park (established in 1956 [5]) to the NYSDEC. The remaining parcels were leased to the Town of Greece in 1981.
At the 2008 US Olympic Team trials, at the age of 50, she finished in 2:49:08, setting a new US 50+ record and beating her personal goal at the time of a mid-2:50s marathon. When she ran the New York City Marathon on November 1, 2009, she broke the Senior Masters record for runners older than 50 with a final time of 2:49:09. [12]
Marathon is a town in Cortland County, New York, United States.The population was 1,967 at the 2010 census. [3]The town of Marathon contains a village also named Marathon.The town is on the southern border of the county and is in the Southern tier region of New York State and is southeast of Cortland.