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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 ]
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).
The National Black Marathoners' Association [1] [2] [3] ( NBMA) is a not-for-profit runners' organization. The executive director and co-founder is Anthony (Tony) Reed, the first Black person in the world to run marathons on all seven continents in 2007. [4] [5] [6] It was formed in 2004 and held its first Annual Summit at the 2005 Lewis and ...
The Martin W. Richard Charitable Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt charitable foundation established by the parents of Martin Richard (June 9, 2004 [1] – April 15, 2013), an 8-year-old boy who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013. The foundation is dedicated to promoting education and sports in the community.
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 ...
April 15, 2024 at 6:37 PM. Runners from Seacoast New Hampshire and southern York County, Maine were among the approximately 30,000 athletes who competed in the 128th Boston Marathon on Monday ...
In total there were 672,631 UK applications for 2025, with 50.33% from men, 49.03% from women and 0.64% from non-binary applicants. A total of 167,687 non-UK residents applied in the international ...
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.