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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.
Jacqueline Gareau (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian runner who won the Boston Marathon on April 21, 1980. Gareau led the women's field for most of the race, only to find another runner, Rosie Ruiz, wearing the traditional victor's laurels when she crossed the finish line.
In doing so, she qualified for the April 1980 Boston Marathon, where she appeared to have won the women's race in a course record time. After it was discovered she had only run the last half-mile (800m) of the race, her medal was revoked and her result deleted from the records; [ 4 ] in any case, the discovery that Ruiz had cut the course in ...
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Suh Yun-bok set a world record at the 1947 Boston Marathon. John J. Kelley won the 1957 Boston Marathon with a course record. 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.
In 2015, Rossi ran in the Boston Marathon, and brought his wife and nine-year-old twins on the trip to Boston from their hometown of Abington, Pennsylvania.He subsequently received a form letter from his children's principal informing him that a family vacation was not an excusable reason for absence, and that the school days his children missed would be marked as unexcused.
Hoyt first ran the Boston Marathon in 1980 while pushing his son, Rick, in a wheelchair. Rick was born a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, CBS Boston reports . The two began racing in ...
Boston magazine is honoring the 10-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings with new art that pays homage to its May 2013 sneaker cover.