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29 unusual facts about Marathon


Aristidis Konstantinidis

He won the road race, covering the 87 kilometres from Athens to Marathon and back in a time of 3:22:31 despite his bicycle breaking down shortly after turning around and him falling during the return trip.

Attica Province

Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Acharnes, Dionysos, Kropia, Lavreotiki, Marathon, Markopoulo Mesogaias, Oropos, Paiania, Pallini (except the municipal unit Gerakas), Rafina-Pikermi, Saronikos, Spata-Artemida and Fyli.

August von Gödrich

He placed second in the 87 kilometre race from Athens to Marathon and back, finishing in 3:42:18 behind Aristidis Konstantinidis of Greece.

Automatic Centre

Collins International has since been a distributor of global brands such as the genuine Thermos brand (USA), Sharp (Japan), Timex (USA), Marathon (Korea), Camping Gaz (France), Soenhle (Germany), Dowell (various), Omron (Japan), and Moulinex (France).

Barney Klecker

Klecker is a two-time champion of the City of Lakes Marathon/Twin Cities Marathon (1977, 1979) and the Edmund Fitzgerald 100 km (1982, 1986).

Chalmers Naval Architecture Students' Society

One of the popular events is participating in the Annual Gothenburg City Half Marathon.

Creator code

For instance, the Marathon computer game had a creator code of 26.2 (the approximate length, in miles, of a marathon) and Marathon 2: Durandal had a creator code of 52.4.

Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's road race

It was 87 kilometres long, with contestants cycling to the city of Marathon and back.

Edmilson da Silva Melo

He and brother Niberto, came to Honduras to Marathon and after one season they left to Motagua because they did not fit into Manuel Keosseian's tactics.

Henryk Szost

He competed at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, but dropped out of the race.

Irene Jerotich Kosgei

Her first victory over the distance came at the Nairobi Marathon in 2006 and she won the race again in 2010 with a course record and personal best time of 2:28:47.

Among her other achievements on the road, she won the 2005 Baringo 15K, the Tiberias Marathon in 2010 and has also finished top three at the Ottawa Marathon and Reims Marathon.

Irene Mogaka

Her 2008 season was highlighted by a run of 2:38:22 for fifth place at the Toronto Marathon.

Jonathan Hancock

Jonathan is also a keen runner; he has run the London Marathon twice, the Brighton Marathon twice, and was chosen to carry the Queen's Jubilee Baton through Abingdon in Oxfordshire in the run-up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Laurence Robertson

He has been actively involved in sports, especially golf, bowling,horses and marathons, of which he has completed 6, including the 1994 New York Marathon.

Learning Grid

22 separate activities have achieved the Learning Grid quality standard, including Formula Student, F1 in Schools, Primary Engineer, Greenpower, STEM days and residential courses run by the Smallpeice Trust, the Shell Eco-marathon, F1 in Schools, the Engineering Education Scheme and The Year in Industry.

Marathon, Ontario

In 2009, Vancouver-based Teck Cominco mining company sold its 50% share of Williams and David Bell to its investing partner, Barrick Gold Corporation, while Golden Giant was decommissioned in 2005.

Marathon, Texas

The town was also a filming location for the movie Paris, Texas directed by Wim Wenders.

Maraton

Maraton, in some languages Maratone and Maratón is a variant of Marathon

ReWalk

Lomas, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a 2007 riding accident, completed the London Marathon in 17 days with her ReWalk system.

Sebastián Crismanich

Sebastián is the first individual athlete achieving the gold medal for Argentina since the 1948 Games, when Delfo Cabrera won the Marathon, and the first Taekwondo medal for Argentina.

Sentiero 4 Luglio SkyMarathon

Three times trial world championship (2003, 2004, 2007), today is organized in collaboration with Aprica (SO) and consists of two distances: classical Marathon and half marathon (this last, since 2000).

Swapnali Yadav

She added the Kingdom Aquafest effort to the outstanding performances as the youngest-ever in the world in the 2007 Open World Swimming Marathon and the 30 km Messinikos Gulf Swim in 2008-09, both in Greece, and the 2009 Bermuda Round the Sound Open Swimathon, to announce her arrival in international swimming.

Ten Mile Road Race

In 1968, the first female competitor ran in the Ten Mile Road Race: Frances Blanche of Marathon, Ontario.

Tlmače

Every year the town in the month of May organizes a Marathon known as TLMAČSKA Dvadsaťpäťka (Tlmače 25).

The following event would be now known as TLMAČSKÝ POLMARATÓN (Tlmače Half Marathon).

University of Oklahoma Army ROTC

OU cadets also participate in other events, including the Oklahoma City Marathon and competitive shooting events.

William D. Law

Law is an avid runner and has completed over two dozen marathons, including five Boston Marathons.

WKQH

Licensed to Marathon, Wisconsin, USA, the station serves the Wausau-Stevens Point area.


1995 World Marathon Cup

The 1995 World Marathon Cup was the 6th edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Athens, Greece.

2010 European Marathon Cup

The 2010 European Marathon Cup was the 9th edition of the European Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Barcelona, Spain, inside of the 2010 European Championships.

Anália Rosa

Anália de Oliveira Rosa (born 28 February 1976 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) is a Portuguese long-distance runner who competes in cross country, track and road running events, including the marathon.

Automobiles Marathon

In June 1953 Marathon’s first pre-production prototype was presented to Gilles Guérithault who was managing editor of L'Auto-Journal, and who thereby obtain exclusive details of the car which would debut in production form only in October at the Paris Motor Show.

Celia de Fréine

In October, 2009 the world premiere of Marathon, which she wrote in association with Biju Viswanath, took place during the New York International Film Festival, scooping awards for best screenplay and best cinematography.

Cleveland Marathon

Among the charities supported by the marathon are The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Cowtown Marathon

The Cowtown Marathon was founded by the University of North Texas Health Science Center in 1978, with proceeds benefiting local charities and non-profit organizations.

Dance marathon

Dance Marathon at the University of Florida, commonly referred to as DM at UF, is an annual 26.2-hour Dance Marathon that takes place every April benefiting the patients of University of Florida Health Shands Children's Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

Stanford's Dance Marathon benefits primarily Partners in Health and FACE AIDS, and they also choose a local beneficiary each year.

David Michel

Since 1999, David Michel has produced several long-running animated series along with Vincent Chalvon Demersay (CEO, Marathon Media) : Totally Spies, Martin Mystery, Team Galaxy, Monster Buster Club, The Amazing Spiez!.

Ellis Lane, New South Wales

It sits within the state electorate of Camden, represented by Labor's Geoff Corrigan, the former Mayor of Camden, and the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Liberal's Pat Farmer, the former ultra-marathon runner.

Ellsworth Hunt Augustus

His service to the Scout movement included participating in the 11th World Scout Jamboree at Marathon, Greece, and 19th World Conference on the Isle of Rhodes.

Franklin Tenorio

Franklin Bolívar Tenorio Ramón (born June 30, 1969 in Salcedo, Cotopaxi) is an Ecuadorian long-distance and marathon runner.

Graham Macky

He won his first national title in the men's marathon in 1983, clocking 2:21:22 in Mosgiel, and won the Rotorua Marathon in 1991.

Greece in 5th century BC

In 492 BC, the Persian generals Mardonios and Datis launched a naval assault on the Aegean islands, causing them to submit, then attempted to disembark to Marathon in 490 to take Athens.

Grete Waitz

Waitz completed her last marathon on 1 November 1992 with her friend Fred Lebow.

Hotel Trubble

She claims to be a marathon runner, running the London Marathon 30 years ago (in 2009) even though it was established in 1981, the Queen's cousin, a former actress and a grandmother.

I, Libertine

It is said that Betty Ballantine completed the final chapter after an exhausted Sturgeon fell asleep on the Ballantines' couch, having tried to meet the deadline in one marathon typing session.

Image Entertainment Corporation

Team Galaxy (co-produced with Marathon Media, YTV, VRAK TV, Jetix Europe, France 3, and RAI Fiction)

Monster Buster Club (co-produced with Marathon Media, YTV, Radio-Canada, Disney XD Europe, and TF1)

Jocelyne Villeton

Jocelyne Villeton (born September 17, 1954 in Vals-les-Bains, Ardèche) is a retired long-distance runner from France, who won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy.

Johnny Kelley

In 1993, a statue of Kelley to commemorate him was erected near the City Hall of Newton, Massachusetts, on the Boston Marathon course, one hill and about one mile prior to the foot of Heartbreak Hill.

Kevin Papworth

He is best known for winning the 2000 London Marathon, having passed the expected winner, South African Ernst van Dyk, who is the current world record holder for the men's wheelchair marathon, in the final mile of the race.

Lesotho at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Marathon runner Mamorallo Tjoka, who competed at her second Olympics as the oldest member of the team, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Luminous Orange

Although they couldn't meet the request to play at Collette Millennium Party in Paris 2001 and CMJ Music Marathon 2001 (due to 9/11), they played at CMJ 2004 and SXSW 2006 & 2007 with good response.

Marathon Technologies

In the spring of 2008 the company released everRun VM for Citrix XenServer the first in the series of v-Available products from Marathon Technologies that provides fault-tolerant high availability and disaster recovery protection.

Maratona di Sant'Antonio

The success of African runners at the marathon drew the ire of Pietro Giovannoni, a local politician and Lega Nord member, who said public funds should not be used to support a race won by foreigners.

Martha Komu

Martha Komu (born March 23, 1983, in Gathanji, Laikipia District) is a Kenyan runner who specialises in a marathon.

Martin Kolanda

In the following four years Kolanda raced on K2 with Tomáš Ježek at ICF marathon events, but never reached a medal position at World Marathon Championships.

Myra Moller

Myra is the niece of Olympic marathon bronze medallist, Lorraine Moller, and the daughter of Teniinii and Gary Moller.

Niagara Falls International Marathon

The Niagara Falls International Marathon passes a border control, while the mentioned European borders have no border control thanks to the Schengen Union.

Oran Park, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Orvin Cabrera

Born in La Lima, Cabrera began his professional career in 1995, and played for Real España, Olimpia, Marathón, Salvadoran outfit Luis Ángel Firpo and Vida.

Peter Weightman

He is the father of Lisa Jane Weightman, a marathon runner who competed in the Beijing Olympics.

Prague Half Marathon

The Prague Half Marathon has a looped course format which has its race start and end point on Jan Palach Square near the Rudolfinum.

Richard A. Lovett

He has also cauthored two running books with marathon legend Alberto Salazar, plus two books on bicycle touring and one on cross-country skiing.

Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon

The SunTrust Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon, formerly known as the National Marathon, is an annual marathon and half marathon held in Washington, D.C. It was established in 2006 as an annual event.

Rotohex

IGN gave Rotohex an 8/10, calling the game "one of those awesome 'zone out' matching puzzlers" which carries an "unbelievable addictiveness" in its gameplay that is "almost as addictive as Marathon Mode is in Tetris".

Runfire Cappadocia Ultramarathon

Following the Valley of Pigeons (Güvercinlik Vadisi), Ortahisar, Acıgöl, Damsa Dam, Analipsis Monastery (Yüksekli Kilise), Güzelyurt, Avanos, Ihlara Valley, Mount Hasan and around Lake Tuz before crossing through Çavuşin and the Ürgüp and Göreme valleys, the marathon ends in Üçhisar, where it started.

Runner's diarrhea

At the 2005 London Marathon, Paula Radcliffe won with a time of 2:17:42, although the race is often remembered for the moment when Radcliffe, in desperate need for a toilet break, stopped by the road in full view of the crowd and TV cameras, and the unfortunate event was broadcast live.

Shelly Woods

Shelly later won a silver medal in the 1500m, finishing very strongly to beat Switzerland's Edith Hunkeler at the line, and came fourth in the marathon.

Sunita Godara

She became the national marathon champion first time in 1984 by winning Delhi Marathon She won medals in the Penang and Kedah marathons.

Takeyuki Nakayama

Takeyuki Nakayama (中山竹通, Nakayama Takeyuki; born December 20, 1959 in Ikeda, Nagano) was a Japanese world-class marathon runner.

TheSpeedGamers

Thanks to a renewed push by the group, the marathon reached its $15,000 goal before the end of the initial 72 hours and was extended an additional 24 hours, the extra time highlighted by 2011 Zelda release The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

Tom Chiu

He is the founder of the FLUX Quartet, who are widely recognized for their performances of technically challenging cutting-edge compositions, including Morton Feldman's six-hour marathon String Quartet No. 2.

Verónica Páez

She twice won the Argentine title in the women's marathon, both in Santa Rosa (2003 and 2005).

Wu Wen-chien

Wu Wen-Chien (吳文騫 born June 9, 1977) is a Taiwanese Olympic long-distance runner that represented Chinese Taipei in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in the marathon.

Yvynyl

Since 2011, Yvynyl has co-presented #MEGABLAAG with Ears of the Beholder blog: a music blogger party and meetup during South By Southwest Music Festival and CMJ Music Marathon.