Boston Marathon: Facts

American wheelchair racer Jean Driscoll won the Boston Marathon eight times, more than any other person?
Franjo Mihalić, winner of the 1958 Boston Marathon, set his first Yugoslav record over 5000 m just several months after taking up athletics?
Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon?

Facts on topics related to Boston Marathon

Patrick Ivuti's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon, one of the five major marathons, was his first marathon victory?
Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
when 2001 Chicago Marathon winner Catherine Ndereba set the world record, she joined four-time winner Khalid Khannouchi with a current world record time set at the Chicago Marathon?

Michael Watson took six days to complete the London Marathon in 2003, an achievement that won him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award that year?
Phil Packer (pictured), who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by a rocket attack while serving in the Iraq War, has since rowed the English Channel, climbed El Capitan, and completed two London Marathons?

marathon races only receive IAAF Gold Label Road Race status if organisers have taken steps to preserve the environment?

International Association of Athletics Federations' third president, Adriaan Paulen, was part of the Dutch resistance during World War II?
the sports club Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo has co-organized the Bislett Games, an IAAF track and field event event, since 1966?

the inaugural Paris Marathon in 1896 was won by Len Hurst, an English brick-maker?