Sammy Wanjiru won in 2009 in 2 hours 5 minutes and 41 seconds.
Steve redgrave, the winner of five olympic medals won one of the London Marathons, don't know which, sorry!
Athens won at Marathon. Rome won against Carthage.
Sam Ferris. Ferris won silver in the 1932 marathon after finishing 5th in the 1924 marathon and 8th in the 1928 marathon.
Moses Mosop won the 2011 Chicago marathon in 2:05:37.
The Greeks did
LB Brian Cushing of the Houston Texans.
houston won
Meb Keflezighi is a renowned American marathon runner. He was born in 1975 and immigrated to America with his parents when he was 12 years old. He won first place in the New York City marathon in 2009 and a silver medal in the marathon event in the 2004 summer Olympics.
John J. McDermott was the winner of the first annual Boston Marathon in 1897. It was the first marathon of its kind in the US.
Liliya Shobukhova won the race in 2010.
The Battle of Marathon was won by Athens and its ally Plataia in 490 BCE.