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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (left) meeting with marathon medical workers and volunteers. After the planned 2020 edition of the race was canceled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers moved the 2021 race from its traditional Patriots' Day date in April to Columbus Day federal holiday in October (which is a federal holiday, unlike Patriots' Day, a local only holiday).
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 ]
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.
For 26.2 miles, the Boston Marathon route winds eastward through the streets of MetroWest before finishing in Boston. ... Dick Hoyt died in 2021, at age 80, and Rick Hoyt died last May, at 61.
Runners were gearing up for the Boston Marathon on Monday, marking the return of the prestigious race to its springtime spot for the first time since the pandemic began. At 6 a.m. in Hopkinton ...
Dzhokhar "Jahar" Anzorovich Tsarnaev (born July 22, 1993) is an American terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent who perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombing. On April 15, 2013, Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombs detonated, killing three people and ...
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 and ...
Wellesley College students embrace tradition at Boston Marathon. ... While it was discouraged in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was back in force on this year with signs asking for ...