Benjamin Silva Netto , who later became Secretary General of the Philippine Track and Field Association Patafa won all of the leg of that race and registered a time of 2 hours, 26 minutes and 49 seconds. Netto won the event clocking in at 3 hrs, 37 mins and 23 seconds, thus earning the title of the first Filipino marathon champion. On the same year, he ran at the Mexico Olympics.
Adrian started running in and instantly fell in love with the sport. He now frequents local running events. For him running is simple "you take one foot in front of another and repeat the process over and over again.
Skip to content Do you ever wonder why a marathon is After delivering the news, he collapsed and died. What distance did he actually run? I made a little test. I went to the Google maps web site and asked for the direction from Marathon to Athens.
With the modern road system, the distance is But most historians assume that the distance ran by Phidippides was around 40 km. As legendary and fictitious as this story seems, it lead to the creation of the modern marathon race. When Pierre de Coubertin gave birth to the modern Olympic games, the first marathon was set to 40 kilometers.
But during the early Olympic games, the distance of the marathon varied a lot. Why is it exactly 42, km? When did it become a Olympic sport? We will answer all these questions and more in this review of the history of the 42, km.
We all know the legend of the first marathon: Philippides, a Greek messenger, ran the distance from the city of Marathon to Athens, where he announced the victory of the Greek army over the Persians in the Battle of Marathon, before collapsing and dying on the spot. However, there seems to be different versions of this story. Philippides running the first marathon…cluelessly.
A second version states that the Greek soldiers, all highly-trained athletes, ran from Marathon to Athens after winning the Battle of Marathon so they could defend the capital before more Persian ships arrived. A third version suggests that our messenger Philippides ran, not just almost 42 km from Marathon to Athens, but about km from Athens to Sparta; that the run took place not after the battle was won, but before it began; and that the message to be delivered was not a victorious announcement, but a warning about the impending arrival of the Persian army.
To commemorate his dramatic run, the distance of the Olympic marathon was set at 40 kilometers. 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
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