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2009 Boston Marathon. The 2009 Boston Marathon was the 113rd running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States and was held on April 20. The elite men's race was won by Ethiopia's Deriba Merga in a time of 2:08:42 hours and the women's race was won by Ethiopia's Salina Kosgei in 2:32:16.
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 ]
Interstate 95 ( I-95) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that parallels the East Coast of the United States from Miami, Florida, in the south to Houlton, Maine, in the north. [2] In the US state of Massachusetts, it spans 92 miles (148 km) along a north–south axis. It is the third-longest Interstate Highway in Massachusetts, behind I ...
For 26.2 miles, the Boston Marathon route winds eastward through the streets of MetroWest before finishing in Boston. The Marathon passes through eight communities, each containing its own bit of ...
Pete Thibeault and Matt Tobin, both of Pioneer Turf Surfaces, paint the start line on East Main Street (Route 135) in Hopkinton for the 128th running of the Boston Marathon, April 9, 2024.
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.
There are several Framingham/Worcester stops within a short walk to the Boston Marathon route: Ashlandstation: This stop is within walking distance of the 3.2-mile mark on the course.While there ...
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as just simply the Boston bombing, [ 4] was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs that detonated near the finish line of the race 14 seconds ...