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Article: 103rd Boston Marathon.
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- Palaestra
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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The world's fastest long distance runners gathered in Boston the weekend of April 17th, poised for the running of the 103rd Boston Marathon on Monday, April 19th. There were last year's winners, Moses Tanui (Kenya) and Fatuma Roba (Ethiopia), along with a myriad other hopefuls, including William Billy Rogers, a four-time winner and father of the resurgence in distance running in the United States in the `70s, who hoped to win and break the record of 2:31.00 for his age group--Rogers is presently 51 years old.
And, of course, there were Louise Sauvage (Australia), two-time women's wheelchair division winner, and Jean Driscoll (United States), seven-time winner, ...