The First perso to ever run a marathon was actually a women named "Kathrine Switzer". It was in the years of 1967 in Boston
A fellow marathoner told me that 1% of people will ever run a marathon.
Louis Tsapparelli
83 years old
Considering that only about 500K people have ever run the Boston Marathon in over 115 years, the answer is not very many. If we're looking at just the US population, then that would be less than 0.2% of all Americans will run in the Boston Marathon. If we're looking at worldwide population, then it would be less than 0.0001% of the world will run in the Boston Marathon.
The fastest woman to ever run a marathon is Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain (2:15:25) at London 2003. The fastest man to run a marathon is Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya (2:03:02) at Boston 2011.
The fastest marathon ever run is 2 hours, 3 minutes and 02 seconds - set by Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai on April 18th 2011 at the Boston Marathon.
How many miles are run in a marathon? There are 26.21875 miles in a marathon.
Athletes in a marathon run 26 miles. Athletes in a marathon run 26 miles.
It took Greg Billingham just over 7 days to complete the 2007 London marathon and 8 full days to complete the 2008 London marathon. He is the first person in the World to ever run a marathon in slow motion and really is the slowest runner in the World,
The Boston Marathon. It was first run in 1897.
No-one has ever ran under 2 hours for a marathon! The fastest ever man has done it in 2:03 and the fastest woman in 2:15