Atlas — the interactive world
Earth · Earth · Explore · 3005 BCE–1926 · 25 of 242 located marks in focus · editorial corpus · no live source connected
route
Close ✕Boston Marathon
The oldest annual marathon in the world, first run on 19 April 1897 and held every year since.
42.2, -71.5 · route · 1897 – present, annual
On the world
- A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections · 3 of 6
- located in Boston — The course runs inbound from Hopkinton through the western suburbs and finishes on Boylston Street in Boston.
- operated by Boston Athletic Association — The Boston Athletic Association has organised the race since its first running in 1897.
- comparable to New York City Marathon — Both are point-to-point courses whose difficulty is concentrated late — the Newton hills from about 27 km, the bridge climbs from about 25 km — which is why neither is where records are attempted.
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain) · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates