The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald

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1. Story
2. A small race is run through the Grunewald forest west of the divided city, organised by Horst Milde and styled a people's marathon. Reported participation differs between accounts — 244 finishers in one telling, 286 participants in another. It is a forest race in a walled half-city, and nothing about the course yet resembles the flat city-centre loop on which most of the sport's world records will be set.
3. Knowledge
4. Berlin Marathon
5. Berlin
6. The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald
7. Connections
8. Berlin Marathon
9. Berlin
10. Chicago Marathon
11. Berlin
12. Abbott World Marathon Majors
13. The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald
14. Berlin moves its marathon into the city
15. The Berlin Marathon runs through the Brandenburg Gate
16. The World Marathon Majors series is announced
17. Kelvin Kiptum runs 2:00:35 in Chicago
18. The Berlin Wall
19. Tempelhof Airport
20. The Berlin blockade and airlift
21. The Berlin sector border is sealed
22. American and Soviet tanks face each other on Friedrichstrasse
23. The Berlin Wall opens
24. Berlin Marathon
25. The first Berlin Marathon, in the Grunewald
26. Berlin moves its marathon into the city
27. The Berlin Marathon runs through the Brandenburg Gate
28. Evidence
29. The Berlin Marathon began in 1974 in the Grunewald, moved into the city on 27 September 1981 starting at the Reichstag with 3,486 runners from 30 nations, and first ran through the Brandenburg Gate on 30 September 1990. V55 verification basis: read through an attributed search summary; reported 1974 participation differs between accounts and is not reconciled by this record.