Sentence examples for a major marathon from inspiring English sources

The Bank of America Chicago Marathon (the event is owned by the Charlotte bank) is a major marathon held yearly in Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

Still, Hall has never won a major marathon.

Hall has yet to win a major marathon.

"This is a major marathon," Baysa said through an interpreter.

She was the first African woman to win a major marathon.

The winner of a major marathon gets 25 points, the runner-up 15, with a sliding scale to follow.

Road Runners organizes dozens of races other than the marathon each year, a workload that the other major marathon organizers were not saddled with.

Richard Finn, a spokesman for the Road Runners, said he was not aware of any other major marathon not providing a bag drop service, but he added that few other marathons handled as many runners in so confined a space.

Three years later it became the first major marathon to hold a wheelchair race.

Mutai used a strong late-race kick to power his way to a victory in course-record time, 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds to grab his second major marathon victory in a dominant year.

Tatyana Pozdnyakova, a 47-year-old Ukrainian, won the women's division, becoming the oldest woman to win a major city marathon.