who was the youngest boston marathon winner
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- 10th Boston Marathon - Thursday, April 19, 1906. The race had its youngest winner ever and closest finish to date as Timothy Ford, an 18-year-old runner from Cambridge, crossed the line in 2:45:45 - a scant six seconds better than Roxbury’s David J. Kneeland. Ford was a post entry, the last on the list of 86 starters.
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The day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died At the age of 39, King was already an internationally known figure. Starting with the Montgomery boycott in 1955, King had led a series of nonviolent protests against discrimination. When King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, at the time he was the youngest Peace Prize winner ever, at the age of 35. His acceptance speech in Norway included the famous statement, “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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Girl, 13, put into care for wanting to sail solo around the world Laura Dekker, 13, on her sailboat Guppy in which she wants to become the youngest round-the-world sailor. A Dutch court has put into state care a 13-year-old girl who wants to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, amid fears for her wellbeing during the attempt.
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- B Watson (US) Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy completed a remarkable four days to clinch his first major title with an eight-shot victory in the US Open. McIlroy became the youngest US Open champion since Bobby Jones in 1923 and the youngest major winner since Tiger Woods triumphed at the Masters in 1997.
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Three people killed, hundreds injured in Boston Marathon bombing Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhohkar Tsarnaev; his older brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day.
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Heir Jordan! Spieth embraces his tearful high-school sweetheart as he's crowned the youngest Masters winner since Tiger Woods Adored: Spieth joins in the applause as he is crowned the youngest Masters winner since Tiger Woods won the tournament in April 1997. Waving: The golfer walks off the 18th green after his four-stroke victory at the 2015 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club.
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- He was on the giving end of one speechless encounter and then was the recipient who was taken back by another. Earnhardt Jr., the most recent winner at NASCAR’s Most Competitive track, surprised life-long Dale Jr. fan, Austin Freeman, ... a 12-year-old from the Atlanta area who suffers from a rare form of pediatric bone cancer called Ewing’s Sarcoma.
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Boy, 8, one of 3 killed in bombings at Boston Marathon; scores wounded 3 killed, more than 140 hurt in Boston Marathon bombing. 1  Three killed - including 8-year-old boy - in bomb blasts near finish line of Boston Marathon, officials say.  Two explosions happened at about 2:50 p.m., more than two hours after the first of the race's nearly 27,000 runners had crossed the finish line.
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- Women’s Wheelchair Elite. With a large lead, the United States’ Tatyana McFadden finished at 1:42:16. The Russian-born athlete is the women’s wheelchair elite division winner for the fourth year in a row. After the victory, McFadden high-fived the family of Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
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Two Champions of Children Are Given Nobel Peace Prize Satyarthi on Winning Nobel Peace Prize. 1  The Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi speaks after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against the oppression of children. 2  Malala Yousafzai speaks on being the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and sharing the award with another children’s rights activist. Publish Date October 10, 2014. Photo by Darren Staples/Reuters. Watch in Times Video »
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- Here are the youngest Oscar nominees of all-time. Justin Henry, age 8: Best Supporting Actor for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979. (Photo by Express/Getty Images) Jackie Cooper, age 9: Best Actor for Skippy in 1931. (CREDIT: Glasshouse Images / Alamy) Quvenzhane Wallis, age 9: Best Actress for Beasts of the Southern Wild in 2012.
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- At two weeks shy of 39, Meb Keflezighi was the oldest person to win the Boston Marathon in more than 80 years. Oldest marathoner: Fauja Singh, 100, 2011 Toronto Marathon. 8:11. Meb Keflezighi celebrates his Boston Marathon win Monday. Oldest runner to win the Boston Marathon: Clarence DeMar, 41, 1930, 2:34:48.
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- Here is the list of the youngest male golfers to win one of the four professional majors: 1  Young Tom Morris: 1868 British Open, 17 years 5 months. 2  Young Tom Morris: 1869 British Open, 18 years, 4 months. 3  Young Tom Morris: 1870 British Open, 19 years, 4 months.  Johnny McDermott: 1911 U.S. Open, 19 years, 9 months, 14 days.
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Star golfer Rory McIlroy can't keep the grin off his face as he steps out for date night with stunning new girlfriend Erica Stoll Lexi Thompson became the youngest golfer ever to play in a U.S. Women's Open at age 12. Seven years later she won her first major, beating Michelle Wie to grab the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2014. Lexi Thompson didn't win a major in 2015, but she did finish in the top 10 three times in major championships.
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- But not Richard Dreyfuss. The star of ‘Jaws’ scored his golden statuette in 1978 for his leading role in Neil Simon’s ‘The Goodbye Girl’, at the time the youngest actor ever to win an Oscar. And obviously, he keeps it in his fridge, clarifying his choice to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Oscars Record Holders: Which Hollywood Legend Has 59 Academy Award Nominations? Shirley Temple, who won the Honorary Juvenile Award at age 6 in 1934, is the youngest overall, but Tatum O'Neal is the youngest in the standard competitive categories. She earned a Best Supporting Actress trophy for Paper Moon in 1973, when she was 10 years old.
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Autopsy Says Boston Bombing Suspect Died of Gunshot Wounds and Blunt Trauma Autopsy Says Boston Bombing Suspect Died of Gunshot Wounds and Blunt Trauma. WORCESTER, Mass. — Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old man who the authorities say is one of two brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombing, died of gunshot wounds and blunt trauma, according to his death certificate.
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As she closes in on first overall World Cup title, Mikaela Shiffrin also readies for Olympic glory She has been competing in World Cup ski races since she was 16 years ago, and four years ago in the mountains above Sochi, Russia, won the gold medal in the slalom and became, at 18, the youngest U.S. alpine gold medalist in history and the youngest-ever Olympic slalom winner, male or female.
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- Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream, 1963. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, King outlined his vision of American racial harmony in a historic piece of oratory. The following year, at the age of 35, he became the youngest man to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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- Wimbledon.com looks at the top 10 youngest champions. 1  1. Boris Becker was 17 years old when he won the 1985 Championships, becoming the youngest ever winner of the gentlemen's singles title.
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- Jones youngest driver to win two races in a weekend: 19-year old Erik Jones is the youngest driver to win two NASCAR national series races in the same weekend. Jones won Friday's Camping World Truck Series race at Iowa Speedway and then won the XFINITY Series race at Chicago on Sunday (NASCAR).
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Shot by the Taliban a year ago, Malala was a favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize She was a contender, at least in hearts and headlines. At 16, Malala Yousafzai would have become the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, if she had been awarded it Friday. In addition, she would have been the youngest winner ever of a Nobel Prize in any category. Instead, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded it to the international chemical weapons watchdog that is destroying poison gas stockpiles in Syria -- the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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- The First Female Boston Marathon Runner Prepares To Run Again. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer ran the Boston Marathon, even though it was a men's-only event. She tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about that race, and training to run it again in 2017, at age 70. Saturday Sports: NBA Playoffs Begin.
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- He won it in 1964. Martin Luther king Jr., born in Atlanta, Georgia, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, becoming the youngest man ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Boston Marathon History Roberta Gibb was the first woman to run the full Boston Marathon in 1966. Gibb, who did not run with an official race number during any of the three years (1966-68) that she was the first female finisher, hid in the bushes near the start until the race began.