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The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. 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 ]
1980 Boston Marathon. Rosie M. Vivas[ 1] ( née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [ 2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as just simply the Boston bombing,[4]was an Islamistdomestic terroristattack that took place during the annual Boston Marathonon April 15, 2013. Brothers Tamerlanand Dzhokhar Tsarnaevplanted two homemade pressure cooker bombsthat detonated near the finish line of the race 14 seconds and 210 ...
Chebet won the Boston Marathon on Monday for the second year in a row — posting a time of 2 ... both of Kenya, hold the trophy at the finish line after winning the 127th Boston Marathon, Monday ...
Boston Marathon 2023. 17:10, Mike Jones. Hellen Obiri gets a big hug from Dathan Ritzenhein, her coach, at the finish line. The leading American runner, Emma Bates, finishes fifth.
Thousands, including many marathon runners in their blue and yellow windbreakers and several former Boston Red Sox players, came out to a second ceremony Saturday afternoon near the finish line.
The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, began on March 4, 2015, in front of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, nearly two years after the pre-trial hearings. [4] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 's attorney, Judy Clarke, opened by telling the jurors that her client and his older brother, Tamerlan ...
Since 1990, the Boston Marathon has been ineligible for world records, as the start and finish are too far away from each other, and the race is a net downhill. [13] In 2011, Geoffrey Mutai won the race in 2:03:02, which was the world's fastest time for the marathon, beating the official world record by 57 seconds.