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Twenty-five runners assembled on Marathon Bridge, the starter mumbled a few words and fired the gun, and the race was on. "The excitement of the crowd waiting at the finish line at the ancient but refurbished Panathenaic Stadium was beyond description" writes the Greek historian Quercetani.
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ctc.coin.org/marathon.html
ctc.coin.org/marathon.html
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marathon section - the history of marathon, athletes who have run distance and graduated to hall fame, a-z marathons listing from around world adelaide to zurich ... The marathon has a proud history and is steeped in tradition. History records that in 490 B.C., the soldier Pheidippides, covered the distance from a...
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www.time-to-run.com/marathon/history.htm
www.time-to-run.com/marathon/history.htm
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MarathonGuide.com - Complete history of the marathon race, including all time marathons records and results and more!!! ... Transported to Boston in 1897 by American spectators, the history of the marathon in the new world is almost as long as the history of the marathon itself.
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www.marathonguide.com/history/index.cfm
www.marathonguide.com/history/index.cfm
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MarathonGuide.com - the complete marathon resource and community. Complete directory of marathons, marathon results, athlete and race news, marathon history, training schedules, chat, email, marathoning humor - everything for the marathon runner and marathon fan. ... Excerpted from Olympic Marathon, by Charlie Lovett...
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www.marathonguide.com/history/olympicmarathons/prologue...
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This document contains a history of the marathon. It is a page in the History section of HickokSports.com, the largest collection of sports information on the Internet. ... More HighBeam articles on: "marathon history"
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www.hickoksports.com/history/marathon.shtml
www.hickoksports.com/history/marathon.shtml
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Marathon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The marathon is a long-distance foot race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles 385 yards, or exactly 26 7 ⁄ 32 miles) that is usually run as a road race. The event is...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon
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In 1948, during the first Olympic Games after WWII in London, the Belgian runner Etienne Gailly, running his first marathon, entered the history of the Games.
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www.ping.be/~ping6197/History.html
www.ping.be/~ping6197/History.html
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Concluding Remarks and Beginning of Olympic Marathon Races; The Greek victory marked one of the decisive events of world history because it kept an Eastern power (the persians) from conquering what is now Europe.
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www.lakepowell.net/marathon.html
www.lakepowell.net/marathon.html
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In what could be considered the first marathon of the history, the first Athenians achieved Phaleron in about 5-6 hours and, about a hour before the Persians arrived there, all the Greeks were already on the beach ready for the battle.
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