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Ernst van Dyk has won the Boston Marathon ten times, more than any other athlete. The Boston Marathon, one of the six World Marathon Majors, is a 26.2-mile (42.2 km) race which has been held in the Greater Boston area in Massachusetts since 1897, making it the oldest annual marathon in the world.
Helen Obiri of Kenya wins the women’s division of the 2024 Boston Marathon. Hellen Obiri wins the women’s professional race after breaking away from the group during the final miles of the ...
Rosie M. Vivas [1] (née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.
Men's winner Sisay Lemma and women's victor Hellen Obiri led a field of 30,000 runners from 100 countries at this year's Boston Marathon. ... her title in Boston, completing Monday's race in 2:22: ...
Her name was inscribed with the names of the other winners on the Boston Marathon Memorial in Copley Square. [24] In 2016, Gibb was the grand marshal of that year's Boston Marathon. [25] That year's female winner, Atsede Baysa, gave Gibb her trophy; Gibb said that she would go to Baysa's native Ethiopia in 2017 and return it to her. [26]
Finally, in 1972, the Boston Marathon established an official women's race. [4] According to Switzer, she understood the gravity of her participation and accomplishment: I knew if I quit, nobody would ever believe that women had the capability to run 26-plus miles. If I quit, everybody would say it was a publicity stunt.
She also won the Berlin Marathon three times (1990, 1992 and 1995); the 1993 New York City Marathon; represented Germany at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996, and won a bronze medal at the 1991 World 15km Road Race Championship. Her marathon best of 2:21:45 set in Boston in 1994, made her the third-fastest female marathon runner in history at ...