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For Boston Marathon's last 100 years, it all starts in Hopkinton. JIMMY GOLEN. April 13, 2024 at 5:38 PM. HOPKINTON, Mass. (AP) — Workers zip in and out of the tents that dot the Hopkinton Town ...
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]
Runners in the first wave in the 127th running of the Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, April 17, 2023. ... Siena Liberatore, 2124692. Laura Lux, 449124. Weijun Ma, 52505. Benjamin MacDonald, 2821351. ...
HOPKINTON — It's hard to miss that it all starts here. The Boston Marathon begins in Hopkinton. Runners follow Route 135, Route 16 and Route 30 onto the city streets of Boston, finishing beside ...
Hopkinton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, 25 miles (40 km) west of Boston.The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriots' Day each April, and as the headquarters for the Dell EMC corporation.
The start was moved from Ashland to Hopkinton in 1924 to make the race the official Olympic Marathon distance of 26.2 miles (42.1 kilometers). The start line says “100 years in Hopkinton.” The announcer welcomed the gathering crowds to the “sleepy little town of Hopkinton, 364 days of the year.”
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 otherwise sleepy New England town of Hopkinton celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line for the world's oldest and most prestigious marathon, sending off a field of 17 former ...