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BOSTON — The Boston Athletic Association announced Thursday that a record $71.9 million in charity was raised in this year's Boston Marathon. The total includes $45.7 million raised through 168 ...
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 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.
Dave McGillivray is a U.S.-based road race director, entrepreneur, philanthropist, motivational speaker, author, and athlete. McGillivray is the founder and president of DMSE Sports, Inc., a full-service event-management organization. McGillivray has directed or consulted on more than 1,400 events throughout the world including the Boston ...
A small park in Ashland marks the spot between Pleasant Street and the Sudbury River where 15 men lined up in 1897 for the first Boston race, then known as the American Marathon.
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 ]
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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).