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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 ]
Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive. Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive is a crowdsourced archive of stories, photos, videos, and social media related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath. [1] A community project hosted at Northeastern University, Our Marathon began collecting content in May 2013.
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 ...
South Framingham train station. A key gathering spot for spectators during the first half of the marathon route, the South Framingham Train Station at 417 Waverly St. (Route 135) is among the ...
MBTA service starts about 5 a.m., and there will be a $15 commuter rail Marathon pass available for unlimited all-weekend use. You can purchase a $11 unlimited one-day pass for use on buses and ...
The standards have been in place since 1970 for male runners and 1972 for female runners. The standards are published by the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.), in advance of the qualifying window. To "qualify" for the Boston Marathon runners need to have run a marathon at a time given for their gender and age (as shown in the tables below).
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.