Spyros Louis (12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon run ...

Greek runners Charalampos Pitsolis and Stamatia Noula won the 39th “Athens Marathon, the Authentic” (AMA), which took place ...

Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in 1896 ... shows the progression of gold medalists' times for the marathon since 1896. Use the zoom controls at the top right to get a closer look ...

with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...

When was running invented? Runing is an instinctive movement that evolved as a survival skill for early humans. Read on to ...

Stephen Vrska, a marathon and ultra runner from Chesterton, Indiana, first discovered the joy of running back in the 6th grade. “My middle school didn't offer football until the following year ...

No Briton has won the Olympic marathon title since it was one of the founding events at the 1896 Athens Games and the last ...

A host of runners are set for a taxing quadrennial feat — the quick turnaround from the Olympic marathon to the New York City ...

There are six World Marathon Majors -  the Tokyo Marathon, the Boston Marathon, the London Marathon, the Berlin Marathon, the Chicago Marathon and the NYC Marathon.

There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder, Pierre de Coubertin, thought women were "not cut out to sustain certain shocks". More than 100 years ...

With the six World Marathon Majors in the books for 2024, we look back on what we learned from an intriguing year in the ...

Conner Mantz, Clayton Young, Fiona O'Keeffe, Emily Sisson and Dakotah Lindwurm are bound for Paris, all finishing in the top three at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando on Saturday.