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2010 Boston Marathon. The 2010 Boston Marathon was the 114th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States and was held on April 19. The elite men's race was won by Kenya's Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot in a time of 2:05:52 hours and the women's race was won by Ethiopia's Teyba Erkesso in 2:26:11.
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.
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]
Desiree Linden. Linden in Berlin. 2009. Desiree "Des" Nicole Linden (née Davila; born July 26, 1983) is an American long-distance runner. She represented the United States in the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics women's marathon. In 2018, she won the Boston Marathon, becoming the first American in 33 years to win the ...
Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev ( / ˌtæmərˈlɑːn ˌtsɑːrˈnaɪɛf /; October 21, 1986 – April 19, 2013) [note 1] was a Russian-born terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent [3] [4] who, with his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
The 2013 Boston Marathon was the 117th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which took place on April 15, 2013. Organized by the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.), it hosted the second of the World Marathon Majors to be held in 2013 with over 23,000 runners participating. Lelisa Desisa won the men's race with a time ...
He returned to the race in 2010, but only managed fourth place, although his time of 2:08:41 was the fastest ever by an American at Boston. In 2010, Hall finished fourth in the Boston Marathon, and fourteenth in the Philadelphia Distance Run half marathon. Due to fatigue, he withdrew from the Chicago Marathon.
It was Boston or bust for the Barrington resident who completed the grueling 26.2-mile test of physical and mental fortitude known as the Boston Marathon on April 15 in his first attempt.