The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards

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1. Story
2. Fifty-five runners from 16 nations start at Windsor Castle and run to the White City Stadium in west London, finishing with 385 yards on the track in front of the royal box; 27 finish. The distance is 26 miles 385 yards, 42,194.988 m. Dorando Pietri enters the stadium first, collapses repeatedly and is helped up by officials; he is disqualified and Johnny Hayes, about 32 seconds behind, is declared the winner. The Olympic regulations had asked for a race of about 40 km, and the organising Polytechnic Harriers laid out a course about two kilometres longer. This is the race whose arbitrary length became the world standard.
3. Knowledge
4. London
5. The marathon distance (42.195 km / 26 miles 385 yards)
6. Dorando Pietri
7. Windsor Castle
8. White City Stadium
9. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
10. Connections
11. The marathon distance (42.195 km / 26 miles 385 yards)
12. Dorando Pietri
13. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
14. White City Stadium
15. Windsor Castle
16. The marathon distance (42.195 km / 26 miles 385 yards)
17. Dorando Pietri
18. London
19. London
20. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
21. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
22. Calibrated bicycle course measurement
23. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
24. Carbon-plated road racing shoe
25. World Athletics
26. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
27. The 1908 distance becomes the world standard
28. Boston lengthens its course and moves the start to Hopkinton
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30. Ruth Chepngetich runs 2:09:56 in Chicago
31. Tigst Assefa sets a women-only world record in London
32. The first sub-two-hour marathon in a record-eligible race
33. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
34. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
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36. Afternoon tea
37. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
38. Boston Tea Party
39. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
40. First Assam tea auctioned in London
41. London Marathon
42. New York City
43. White City Stadium
44. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
45. The first London Marathon
46. The Great Exhibition
47. Google DeepMind
48. Evidence
49. The 1908 Olympic marathon was run on 24 July 1908 from Windsor to the White City Stadium over 26 miles 385 yards, with 55 starters from 16 nations and 27 finishers; Dorando Pietri was disqualified and Johnny Hayes won. V55 verification basis: the Olympedia result page was identified through search and its substance read in summary; the database entry itself was not retrieved.
50. The 1908 start was on the East Terrace at Windsor Castle rather than beneath a royal nursery window, the royal children were photographed outside on the lawn, and Olympic historians including Bob Wilcox have found no archival support for the nursery-window explanation of the 385 yards. V55 verification basis: read through attributed search summaries of this page and of secondary coverage of Wilcox's research; neither the page nor the underlying study was retrieved.