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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.
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]
In 1934, the breakfast cereal Wheaties began the practice of including pictures of athletes on its packaging to coincide with its slogan, "The Breakfast of Champions." In its original form, athletes were depicted on the sides or back of the cereal box, though in 1958 Wheaties began placing the pictures on the front of the box.
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;
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.
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.
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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; Bix, a fictional Protoceratops in the Dinotopia books by James Gurney