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The First Marathon at the Olympic games in Athens
This served as an inspiration to the Boston Marathon. This influenced John Graham to make a similar long distance run. -
Boston Marathon was invented
This Boston marathon was won by John J. McDermott of New York running 24.5, with a time of 2 hours 55 minutes and 10 seconds. -
The Second Marathon
The Boston marathon had it's first foriegn languager win the race. His name was 22-year-old Boston College student Ronald J. MacDonald of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, won the race in 2:42:00 -
Clarence H. won his first Marathon
Clarence H. DeMar of Melrose, Massachusetts, won his first Boston Marathon race of seven. He won his other 6 medals between 1922 and 1930. DeMar was 41 years old when he won his final title in 1930. -
World War 1 affecting the Marathon
Due to World War 1, the traditional Patriots day underwent a change. A 10-man military relay race was held on the course, and the team from Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts, bested the field in 2:24:53. -
Course was lengthened
The Boston Marathon was lengetherned to 26 miles and 385 yards. Also the starting line was moved West form Ashalnd to Hopkinton. -
John A. “The Elder” Kelley made his Boston Marathon debut
He won the race in 1935 and again in 1945 posted the record for the most started and finished races. His lace race was in 1992 and he was 84. -
Newton Hill given a nickname
The last Newton hill was given its nickname, "Heartbreak Hill." It was created by Boston Globe reporter Jerry Nason. -
Top Time
For the first time in the history of the men’s race, a world best was established at the Boston Marathon when Korean Yun Bok Suh turned in a 2:25:39 run. -
B.A.A. club member wins the race
John J. Kelley was the first winner to be associated with the marathon and still win. -
First Woman to run the marathon
Roberta Gibb was the first perosn to run the marathon. She joined the race shortly after the gun shot. With a time of 3:21:40 and place 126th overall. -
First Woman to officially run the race
Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to get a number in the race. She finished with a time of 4:20:00. -
Patriots day was offical
The marathon was always held on Patriots day. In 1969 it was officially qualified as a holiday on the third Monday in April. -
Qualification standards were introduced
A player must sign a form that states, “A runner must submit the certification...that he has trained sufficiently to finish the course in less than four hours.” -
First African American to win the race
Kenya's Ibrahim Hussein finished one second ahead of Tanzania’s Juma Ikangaa and became the first African to win the Boston Marathon. -
Worlds best was established in the wheelchair division
Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya set the courses wheelchair record to 2:07:15, while Uta Pippig set the women’s standard at 2:21:45. -
100th running of the Boston Marathon
The 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon attracted 38,708 entrants, 36,748 starters, and had 35,868 official finishers, which stood as the largest field of finishers in the history of the sport until 2004. -
Qualifying times adjusted
The qualifying times were adjusted for the first time since 1990, to the maximum field size was set at 20,000 official entrants. -
The largest field of finishers
The largest number of finishers ever in the botson marathon, with New York City: 37,257 starters and 36,544 finishers. -
Divided into to two starting waves
Two starting waves, with 10,000 runners beginning at the traditional noon starting time and the remainder of the runners starting at 12:30 p.m. -
Start time pushed back
For the second year in a row, the start time was pushed back to 10 a.m. -
The Boston Bombing
Two terrioists set bombs near the finish line and killed 3 people injuring 260 others. -
Marathon 2017
The marathon this year was won by Geoffrey Kirui (KEN) with 2:09:37. The marathon femake winner was Edna Kipligat (KEN) with 2:21:52
