Race profile

Boston
Boston MA/USA
16 Apr 1979
Road
Marathon
Acceptable for rankings, not record quality
Point-to-point course
Men: -81.97 sec (-1.94 sec/km)
Women: -15.72 sec (-0.37 sec/km)
Total: 5958
Men: 5662
Women: 296
Boston

Results (men)

Finished Time Flags Given name Surname Alternate name Citizenship Birth date Prize money Actions
1 2:09:28 Bill Rodgers USA 23 Dec 1947
2 2:10:13 Toshihiko Seko JPN 15 Jul 1956
3 2:12:31 Robert Hodge USA 03 Aug 1955
4 2:12:57 Tom Fleming USA 23 Jul 1951
5 2:13:15 Garry Bjorklund USA 22 Apr 1951
6 2:13:58 Kevin Ryan NZL 22 Jul 1949
7 2:14:05 Robert Doyle USA 05 Mar 1949
8 2:14:13 Randy Thomas USA 28 Jul 1953
9 2:14:28 Herm Atkins USA 30 Mar 1948
10 2:14:37 Richard Mahoney USA 19 Mar 1950
11 2:14:48 Jerome Drayton Buniak Peter CAN 10 Jan 1945
12 2:14:49 Dean Matthews USA 19 Apr 1955
13 2:14:50 Don Greig NZL 23 Oct 1956
14 2:14:57 Christopher Stewart ENG 04 Sep 1946
15 2:15:24 Tony Sandoval USA 19 May 1954
16 2:15:29 Duncan Macdonald USA 15 Jan 1949
17 2:15:45 Jeffrey Norman ENG 06 Feb 1945
18 2:16:01 Esa Tikkanen FIN 01 Aug 1953
19 2:16:11 Nobuaki Takao JPN 13 Jun 1948
20 2:16:21 Frank Richardson USA 26 Feb 1955
21 2:16:31 Günther Mielke GER 30 Nov 1942
22 2:16:35 Colin Kirkham ENG 30 Oct 1944
23 2:16:42 Steven Palladino USA 19 Jun 1956
24 2:16:45 William Sieben USA 03 Jun 1952
25 2:16:47 John Lodwick USA 16 Mar 1954
26 2:16:50 Dave Babiracki USA 22 Jul 1957
27 2:16:51 Richard Hooper IRL 26 Aug 1956
28 2:17:03 Ronald Wayne USA 16 Aug 1949
29 2:17:18 Ric Sayre USA 09 Aug 1953
30 2:17:26 Curtis Alitz USA 26 Aug 1955
31 2:17:32 David Harper USA 18 Jul 1952
32 2:17:36 Trevor Wright ENG 23 Sep 1946
33 2:17:39 Tim Nikcevich USA 11 Mar 1955
34 2:17:45 Lee Fidler USA 21 Mar 1949
35 2:17:51 Kevin McCarey USA 27 Jun 1954
36 2:18:01 Bill Gavaghan USA 06 Jun 1951
37 2:18:05 Keith Brown USA 14 May 1953
38 2:18:10 Thomas Howard CAN 20 Sep 1948
39 2:18:11 Kenji Takami JPN 09 Nov 1948
40 2:18:16 Robert McOmber USA 01 Jan 1951
41 2:18:29 David J Clark SCO 07 Oct 1943
42 2:18:32 Clifford Karthauser USA 10 Feb 1953
43 2:18:41 Walter Saeger USA 15 Jun 1952
44 2:18:55 James Rafferty USA 19 Oct 1952
45 2:18:58 Kyriakis Lazaridis GRE 15 Jul 1954
46 2:19:04 Bruce Robinson USA 25 Sep 1950
47 2:19:11 Kevin McDonald USA 06 Nov 1952
48 2:19:24 Falko Will GER 09 Aug 1948
49 2:19:29 Russell Pate USA 07 Dec 1946
50 2:19:34 Chuck Burrows USA 31 Jul 1948
51 2:19:42 Ron Tabb USA 07 Aug 1954
52 2:20:06 Terrence Stanley USA 05 Sep 1952
69 2:21:32 Don Paul USA 14 Jul 1950
72 2:21:41 Brian Maxwell CAN 14 Mar 1953
75 2:21:57 Frank Shorter USA 31 Oct 1947
87 2:22:46 Doug Kurtis USA 12 Mar 1952
88 2:22:49 Athol Barton NZL 31 Oct 1947
94 2:23:19 Gary Goettelmann USA 26 Sep 1943
102 2:23:53 Ron Nabers USA 05 Feb 1949
118 2:24:37 Wayne Badgley NZL 02 Oct 1944
119 2:24:42 Herb Lorenz USA 07 Apr 1939
127? 2:25:02 Ric Rojas USA 06 Feb 1952
191 2:27:31 Jim Bowers USA 06 Nov 1938
235 2:28:58 Bill Clark USA 02 Dec 1943
274 2:29:50 Chris Hamer USA 12 Oct 1958
275 2:29:51 Ted Pawlak USA 1956
600? 2:39:11 Jack Foster NZL 23 May 1932
853 2:42:10 William Seaver USA 14 Nov 1949
999 3:00:24 Amby Burfoot USA 19 Aug 1946
DNF DNF Don Kardong USA 22 Dec 1948

Results (women)

Finished Time Flags Given name Surname Alternate name Citizenship Birth date Prize money Actions
1 2:35:16 Joan Samuelson Benoit USA 16 May 1957
2 2:38:23 Patti Catalano Lyons LaTorra USA 06 Apr 1953
3 2:38:51 Sue Krenn USA 20 Feb 1950
4 2:39:49 Elizabeth Richards Hassell AUS 23 Feb 1944
5 2:43:03 Sue Petersen USA 06 Sep 1944
6 2:44:29 Kim Merritt USA 22 May 1955
7 2:45:31 Cindy Dalrymple USA 05 Mar 1942
8 2:45:46 Karen Cosgrove Doppes USA 24 Jan 1956
9 2:47:37 Gayle Olinekova CAN 03 Mar 1953
10 2:47:37 Lauri McBride USA 17 Oct 1952
11 2:48:00 Deborah Lewis USA 31 Mar 1954
12 2:48:27 Susan Hughes USA 19 Feb 1951
13 2:48:36 Laurie Binder USA 10 Aug 1947
14 2:48:44 Judy Leydig Gumbs USA 01 Apr 1951
15 2:49:56 Marilyn Bevans USA 04 Oct 1949
16 2:50:14 Deborah Butterfield USA 28 Mar 1952
17 2:50:26 Beth Guerin USA 04 Nov 1959
18 2:51:03 Patricia Robinson USA 1953
19 2:52:12 Shirley Silsby Carney USA 30 Sep 1957
20 2:52:33 Carolyn Bravakis USA 01 Apr 1944
21 2:53:27 Sharon Barbano USA 30 Jun 1953
22 2:53:41 Kathy Gibbons Jackson USA 1954
23 2:53:58 Joyce "Skip" Gibbs Swannack USA 01 Jun 1941
24 2:54:55 Kathy Heckman USA 27 Jun 1955
25 2:55:24 Kiki Sweigart USA 27 Jun 1951
39 2:59:47 Sue Brusher Vinella USA 04 Nov 1952
41 3:00:23 Sue Stricklin USA 1938
123 3:15:25 Vivian Soderholm Difatte USA 26 Sep 1956
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