London is one of the top five world marathons that form the World Marathon Majors competition ) with a $ 1 million prize purse.

April 2011 saw the first annual edition of the Cluj International Marathon, a competition that takes place in the city center's streets.

Begun in 1897, inspired by the success of the first modern-day marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics, the Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon, and ranks as one of the world's best-known road racing events.

Since 1947, the city has played host to an annual road running competition: the Marugame Half Marathon.

* The Bucegi 7500 Marathon, with its first edition in 2009, is the toughest competition in Romania.

The Argentine Renult 12 also saw competition success in South America, with a celebrated class ( up to 1, 600 cc ) win in the 1978 South American Marathon with Argentinian driver Jorge Recalde and co-driver Jorge Baruscotti.

In the 2004 Olympic Games, the Panathinaiko Stadium hosted the archery competition and the finish of the Marathon.

Born in Etya, Arsi Province, Abera's first international competition was the 1999 Los Angeles Marathon, where he finished fourth, behind three Kenyans.

She won the individual and team silver medals at the 1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, and won a second team silver with a fourth place finish at the same competition in 2000.

On September 25, 2005 Noguchi won the Berlin Marathon, which was her first big competition since winning the gold medal in Athens over a year ago.

Since 1998, the University has been developing an ecological vehicle, Ícaro, aiming to run the largest distance with the smallest amount of consumed fuel, having participated in the international competition Shell Eco Marathon.

* World Marathon Majors, championship style marathon competition

The Fukuoka Marathon is the third-longest running competition of its type in Japan, being established two years after the Lake Biwa Marathon and one year after the Kochi Marathon.

Aspiotis competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back.

Iatrou competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back.

Konstantinou competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back.

He is the patron of an annual road running competition in the Abu Dhabi: the Zayed International Half Marathon.

McGregor won USA 25 km Championships in May 2010 and then the USA 10-Mile Championships hosted at the Twin Cities Marathon in September, marking her sixth victory of the competition.

After a break from international competition lasting from late 2010 through 2011, he made his marathon debut in 2012 at the Hamburg Marathon and finished the race in a time of 2: 08: 36 hours, coming fifth overall.

Head courses usually vary in length from 2, 000 m to 12, 000 m, though there are longer races such as the Boston Rowing Marathon and shorter such as Pairs Head.

In 2006, the first Colorado Colfax Marathon was held, traversing the length of Colfax Avenue through the three cities.

For instance, the Marathon computer game had a creator code of < tt > 26. 2 </ tt > ( the approximate length, in miles, of a marathon ) and Marathon 2: Durandal had a creator code of < tt > 52. 4 </ tt >.

And the public imagination was so well caught by the event that annual races in Boston, Ma, and London, and at future Olympics, were henceforward staged over exactly the same, 26-mile, 385-yard distance used for the 1908 Olympic Marathon, and the official length of the event worldwide to this day.

The Marathon lasts for 2 hours, and each team is required to an overall nail length of 20 feet.

The current distance of the race is 42. 195 km-the standard Olympic Marathon length.

Since 1990 the Belgrade Marathon has a standard 42. 195 km length.

* The Marathon is a standard 42. 195 km length marathon

There is a popular running race, the Six Foot Track Marathon, along the length of the trail every March.

A stage is usually similar in length and structure to a Marathon mountain bike race.

The Athenians would have to hold out at Marathon for the time being, although they were reinforced by the full muster of 1, 000 hoplites from the small city of Plataea ; a gesture which did much to steady the nerves of the Athenians, and won unending Athenian gratitude to Plataea.

Twenty world records have been set at the stadium, including John Landy's records on the 1, 500 m and the mile, Nurmi's record on the 3, 000 m and Zátopek's record on the 10, 000 m. In fiction, Nurmi appears in William Goldman's 1974 novel Marathon Man as the idol of the protagonist, who aims to become a greater runner than Nurmi.

* September 1 – Terry Fox is forced to end his Marathon of Hope run outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, after finding that the cancer has spread to his lungs.

In 490 BCE, at the Battle of Marathon, the Persian army was defeated by a heavily armed Athenian army, with 9, 000 men who were supported by 600 Plataeans, 1, 000 soldiers from each of eleven Greek city-states ( 11, 000 men in total ) and 10, 000 lightly armed soldiers led by Miltiades.

On July 7, 2011, Marathon fan Daniel Blezek released a free version of Marathon 1 for Apple's iPad on the App Store, running off an iOS port of the Aleph One engine.

Originally released in March, 1997 for the Marathon 1 engine, it was then released in 2000 for the Marathon Infinity engine, and finally released in 2007 for the Aleph One engine.

Looney Tunes returned to Cartoon Network on January 1, 2009, as a marathon called the " New Year's Day Looney Toonormous Marathon ", but did not air on Cartoon Network or Boomerang again until 11 months later when it returned to Cartoon Network on November 15, 2009.

Fox had raised $ 1. 7 million by the time he was forced to abandon the Marathon.

Most of the city is located on an island formerly known as Shelter Key ; a small part of the city is on Fat Deer Key where the Sadowski Causeway ( also 131st St Ocean on the Marathon, Florida street grid ), which is the only road entering the city, connects to U. S. 1 ( the Overseas Highway ).

In April 2006 he completed his third London Marathon, raising a record £ 1, 800, 000 for charity.

They include Welterweight Boxing Champion Storer College ( 1925 – 27 ); High Jump champion, Howard University Inter-Scholastic Games ( 1926 ); Gold Medalist in Cross Country, Storer College ( 1927 ); Back-stroke Swimming Champion and No. 3 swimmer in Freestyle Relay team, Howard University ( 1928 ); Captain, Lincoln University Soccer Team ( 1930 ); Winner Two Miles Run, Central Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships at Hampton Institute Virginia ( 1931 ); Bronze Medalist, Richmond Cross Country Marathon ( 1931 ); Gold Medalist in the 1, 000 yard run, One Mile Run and Three Mile Run, Catedonian Games in Brooklyn, NY ( 1932 ); Silver Trophy winner in the Half Mile race, and Silver Cup winner in the One Mile Race, Democratic Field Day Championships, New Haven, Connecticut ( 1933 ); Runner-up ( with G. K. Dorgu ) at the Lagos Tennis Men ’ s Double Championships ( Division B 1938 ); anchor man for the ZAC team which won the 50 yards Freestyle Relay at the Lagos Swimming Championships ( 1939 ).

On Gameshow Marathon, a contestant started with $ 1, 000 in betting money for the first two rows and had to wager at least half the money on the Big Bet.

The 2009 New York City Marathon was held Sunday November 1, 2009.

In April 2004, Marsden set the fifth fastest time for MPs completing the London Marathon out of forty two that have taken part since it began in 1981, with a time of 3 hours 18 minutes 1 second.

Naming all seven won $ 1, 600 and gave a home viewer a chance to come to the New York studio where the show was taped at that time, and play along with the studio contestant in a special round called the " Golden Medley Marathon ".

The aviation assets were purchased by Handley Page as Handley Page Reading Ltd. Handley Page produced the Miles-designed M. 60 Marathon as the H. P. R. 1 Marathon.

In 2006 she won Berlin Half Marathon, setting the fastest half marathon run that year, 1: 07: 16 minutes.

She made her half marathon debut at the Rock ' n ' Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon and succeeded first time, winning in a time of 1: 07: 44.

On 1 October 2005, as part of their Gameshow Marathon celebrating 50 years of the ITV network, Ant & Dec hosted a one-off revival that was the only edition of the series to be broadcast live.