Due to the local conditions at the Olympic Games in Antwerp, the marathon distance was extended to This new course length led to renewed discussions on the course distance, bringing it to the tables at the fourth IAAF Congress in Geneva in In the official report of the Olympic Games, an erroneous course description was published.
The actual exact course length cannot be determined, as several of the buildings and places referred to no longer exist today.
Martin and Roger W. John's Road St. Home International Years of the Marathon: Hence the marathon tradition of yelling "God save the Queen" in the last mile. Despite the success of that first race, it took 13 more years of arguing before the International Amateur Athletic Federation IAAF adopted the distance as the official marathon. In fact, of the first seven modern Olympics, there were six different distances.
Today, there are more than organized marathons in 64 countries around the world each year, with more than , marathon finishers in the United States alone.
As many of these veterans will tell you, the first 26 miles are easy, its that last quarter mile that will kill you. For the next few Olympics, the length of the marathon remained close to 25 miles, but at the Games in London the course was extended, allegedly to accommodate the British royal family. As the story goes, Queen Alexandra requested that the race start on the lawn of Windsor Castle so the littlest royals could watch from the window of their nursery, according to some accounts and finish in front of the royal box at the Olympic stadium—a distance that happened to be The random boost in mileage ending up sticking, and in the length for a marathon was formally standardized at In America alone, there are now more than 1, marathons each year.
For decades, marathons were only open to male athletes. In , an estimated 25, runners finished marathons in the United States; by , the estimated number of competitors who completed a
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