Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 7 mile road race is annually held during late July, in the streets of downtown Davenport, Iowa. The race was founded in 1975 by John Hudetz, a resident of Bettendorf, Iowa . After competing in the 1974 Boston Marathon , Hudetz was inspired to bring the excitement to the Quad-Cities with a race of his own.
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.
East Moline is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.The population was 21,374 at the 2020 census. [4] East Moline is one of the Quad Cities [citation needed] at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, along with neighboring Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.
William Henry Rodgers (born December 23, 1947) is an American runner, Olympian, and former record holder in the marathon.Rodgers is best known for his four victories in both the Boston Marathon, including three straight from 1978 to 1980, and 4 straight wins in the New York City Marathon, between 1976 and 1979.
Bix, a 1991 Italian film about Beiderbecke; Bix (rock group), a Lithuanian rock group; 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
Leon Bismark Beiderbecke, nicknamed Bix, was born in this house on March 10, 1903, and grew up here. [2] His father, Bismark Herman Beiderbecke, was a son of German immigrants and was the owner of East Davenport Lumber and Coal Company.