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Aurèle Vandendriessche won back-to-back marathons in 1963 and 1964. Ron Hill set a course record at the 1970 Boston Marathon. Bill Rodgers won the race four times between 1975 and 1980. Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won the race four times, and set two course records. Geoffrey Mutai holds the current course record, 2:03:02, set in 2011.
It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April.[1] Begun in 1897, the event was inspired by the success of the first marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics.[2] The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world's best-known road racing events.
The 2021 Boston Marathon was the 125th official running [1] [a] of the annual marathon race held in Boston, Massachusetts, and 123rd time it was run on course (excluding the virtual event of 2020, and the ekiden of 1918). [2] It took place on October 11, 2021. [3] The elite men's marathon was won by Benson Kipruto in 2:09:51.
The elite marathon winners are Helen Obiri of Kenya, Sisay Lema of Ethiopia, Eden Rainbow-Cooper of England, Marcel Hug of Switzerland. ... Boston Marathon 2024 Live: Winners, track the runners ...
Wesley Kiptoo tied the course record in winning the Falmouth Road Race on Sunday, and fellow Kenyan Hellen Obiri, the reigning Boston Marathon champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist, won ...
Nina Kuscsik (born January 2, 1939) is a retired long-distance runner from the United States, who has participated in over 80 marathons. [1] In 1972, she became the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon. [2] After Beth Bonner, Kuscsik became the second American woman to complete a marathon in under three hours, running a time of 2: ...
Uta Pippig in 2019. Uta Pippig (born 7 September 1965) is a retired German long-distance runner, and the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times (1990, 1992 and 1995); the 1993 New York City Marathon; represented Germany at the Olympic Games in 1992 ...
The 2018 Boston Marathon was the 122nd running of the Boston Athletic Association 's Boston Marathon. It took place on Monday, April 16, 2018 (Patriots' Day in Massachusetts). [1] The race was held in unusually cold weather at 39 °F (4 °C) with rain. [2] Yuki Kawauchi won the men's foot race in 2:15:58 and Desiree Linden won the women's foot ...