2016北京马拉松赛于今天早晨7点半在天安门广场正式开跑，33个国家和地区的3万多名运动员参加此次比赛。
经过2个多小时的奔跑，3名埃塞俄比亚选手包揽了男子组前三名。格布雷·阿耶纽乌用时2小时11分09秒获得了男子组冠军，他的同胞达迪·杰梅达以2小时11分30秒的成绩获得了亚军，贝克勒·梅思芬以2小时11分56秒获得第3。
女子前两名也都被埃塞俄比亚选手包揽，比鲁·门迪图以2小时25分55秒的成绩获得了女子冠军，托拉·吉萨乌以2小时26分10秒获得亚军，她们两人都跑出了北马10年来女子最好成绩。
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耗时最久的马拉松，一跑就是54年
Japan's first Olympians, Shiso Kanakuri (right) and Yahiko Mishima (holding flag), at the opening ceremony for the Stockholm Games in 1912.（The Japan Times）
日本第一批奥运选手，金栗志藏（右）和三岛弥彦（举着旗子），1912年在斯德哥尔摩奥运会开幕式上。(图片来源：日本时报)
你是否听说过，一个日本跑步选手花了54年才完成了他的奥林匹克马拉松比赛？
Have you heard the one about the Japanese runner who took 54 years to finish the Olympic marathon? （The Japan Times）
确切地说，金栗志藏花了54年8个月6天5小时32分20.3秒完成了自己的比赛。
To be precise, 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds was how long it took Shiso Kanakuri to finish the race.（The Japan Times）
100多年前在斯德哥尔摩，金栗志藏是最早代表日本参加奥运会的两位选手之一。
......(over) 100 years ago in Stockholm, Shiso Kanakuri was one of just two athletes representing Japan at its very first Olympic Games.（The Japan Times）
然而......
金栗志藏为人所知是因为他在1912年的斯德哥尔摩奥运会上失踪了。
Kanakuri is best known for disappearing during the marathon race in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
当时，金栗志藏从日本到斯德哥尔摩需要大概18天的跋涉......
Kanakuri had a rough 18-day-long trip to Stockholm......
（比赛当天气温极高）超过一半选手在比赛时中暑。
......over half of the runners in the event suffered from hyperthermia.
高温加上从日本到瑞典的长途跋涉和对当地食物的不适应，使得金栗志藏在比赛中途失去了意识，并在一家农户处得到照料。
Kanakuri, weakened by the long journey from Japan, and suffering from problems with the local food, lost consciousness midway through the race, and was cared for by a farming family.
为了逃避他“失败”的尴尬，金栗志藏在没有通知比赛官员的情况下悄悄地返回了日本。
Being embarrassed from his "failure" he silently returned to Japan without notifying race officials.
在长达50年的时间里瑞典奥运会委员会认为他已失踪，直到他们发现他居住在日本。
Swedish authorities considered him missing for 50 years before discovering that he was living in Japan.
1967年，瑞典电视台联系了金栗志藏，为他提供了完成那次比赛的机会，金栗志藏接受了请求，并以54年8个月6天5小时32分20.379秒的时间完成了比赛，这也是奥林匹克竞赛史上最慢的马拉松比赛记录。
In 1967, he was contacted by Swedish Television and offered the opportunity to complete his run. He accepted and completed the marathon in 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds......
金栗志藏感言，“这真的是一个漫长的征途，这一路上，我结了婚，有了6个孩子还有10个孙子。”
remarking, "It was a long trip. Along the way, I got married, had six children and 10 grandchildren."
最“沉重”的马拉松选手，180公斤
美国洛杉矶举行了一场马拉松比赛，400磅（约180公斤）的相扑运动员，凯利·格内丁(Kelly Gneiting) 顺利跑完全程，也成功刷新了马拉松选手的体重纪录。
400-pound sumo wrestler, Kelly Gneiting, sets record for heaviest person to finish a marathon. (nydailynews)
湿淋淋的雨中，凯利·格内丁(Kelly Gneiting) 拖着沉重的步伐穿过终点线，用时9小时48分52秒，40岁的他在洛杉矶马拉松打破吉尼斯世界纪录。
Kelly Gneiting, 40, grabbed a Guinness World Record at the Los Angeles Marathon after he plodded across the finish line drenched in rain and with a time of 9:48:52.
“我做到了！但痛苦得要死，简直就是地狱！”赛后凯利·格内丁(Kelly Gneiting)告诉洛杉矶时报的记者。
"I did it, but it was hell. Pure hell," Gneiting told the Los Angeles Times.
当天夺得男子组冠军的埃塞俄比亚选手马科斯·盖内蒂用时2小时6秒35。
Ethiopian runner Markos Geneti won the race with a time of 2:06:35, setting a course record.
最"贪吃"的选手，因苹果的诱惑而错失冠军
1904年美国圣路易斯奥运会的男子马拉松比赛在当年的8月30日举行，距离超过24.85英里。
The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24.85 miles.（Cass Gilbert, Life and Work: Architect of the Public Domain）
32名选手代表4个国家竞赛，但只有14人成功完成比赛，证实了当时不成熟的比赛事组织和裁决水平，让比赛过程多么匪夷所思。
Thirty-two athletes representing four nations competed, but only 14 managed to finish the race, which proved to be a bizarre affair due to poor organization and officiating.（The Americanization of the World）
不同于早上比赛的惯例，这次马拉松比赛被安排在下午，当时高温甚至达到32℃。
Instead of having the marathon begin early in the morning, St. Louis organizers started it in the afternoon, and temperatures during the marathon reached 32 °C (90 °F).（ Los Angeles Times.）
作为一名哈瓦那的邮差，卡哈尔是当地的杰出运动人才，受资助来到圣路易斯奥运会的马拉松赛场上。A postman from Havana, Carvajal was a local phenom as a footracer, and when he got it in his head to enter the marathon in the 1904 Olympics, he raised his money for the trip to St. Louis by staging races and socking away the winnings.
他在一场赌博游戏里丢了自己的钱包，因此不得不靠搭便车完成接下来的路程，幸好准时出现在起跑线上。站在起跑线前的卡哈尔身着长袖衬衫、长裤和笨重的皮靴还有一个贝雷帽。
......he lost his purse in a crap game, so he had to hitchhike the rest of the way, getting to St. Louis just in time to show up on the starting line in street shoes, long pants, a long-sleeved shirt and a beret.
临跑前铁饼运动员Martin Sheridan实在是同情这个古巴人，举着发令枪等了很长时间，以剪短卡哈尔的裤管。
Discus thrower Martin Sheridan took pity on the Cuban and held up the starting gun long enough to cut Carvajal's pants off at the knees.
一开始，卡哈尔保持在队伍的前列，他甚至被认为最有希望登上领奖台。可是，中途的一个苹果园使他最终与奖牌失之交臂。
为了解渴，饥渴难耐的卡哈尔突然跑进路边的果园，吃了几个青苹果——这个错误成为他与冠军失之交臂的唯一原因。吃了青苹果后的卡哈尔胃部开始绞痛，这样他输给了当时用自己方法赢得比赛的美国选手托马斯·希克斯（Thomas Hicks）-- 筋疲力尽的希克斯当时被教练注射了药物还喝了白兰地，不过在当时并没有对兴奋剂进行限制。
To quench his thirst, he raided an orchard for some green apples -- which turned out to be his only mistake. The apples apparently gave him stomach cramps, which caused him to lose a little ground as American Thomas Hicks suffered his way to a first place finish -- but only after being administered strychnine and brandy by his handlers, a little bit of doping not yet considered illegal.
年龄最大的参赛者
百岁老人福杰·辛格被认为是世界上最老的跑步选手。
2011年Fauja Singh在接受卫报采访时说，“任何值得做的事情都会富有挑战。”百岁老人福杰·辛格（Fauja Singh）完成马拉松长跑比赛，成为跑完赛事全程的年龄最大的参赛者，用时8小时25分钟16秒。（他不是最后一名）
'Anything worth doing is going to be difficult," says Fauja Singh, the 100-year-old runner who this week became the world's oldest person to complete a full-length marathon, crossing the line at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront event in eight hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds. (And he didn't finish last)
最让人“悲伤”的马拉松
来自瑞典的法斯特参加了1900年巴黎奥运会上的马拉松比赛。当时比赛的路线非常复杂，法斯特迷路了。
Ens Fast (Sweden) ran in the 1900 marathon in Paris. This race was run over a very complicated route, and Ens got lost.(Flaming Olympics )
如果你迷路了，你会怎样做？问警察对不对？
So, what do you do when you get lost? You ask a policeman to tell you the way.
法斯特也是这样做的，却被警察指错了路
Just what Ens did——only to be told the wrong way！
事后，由于外界的过度指责和讥讽，那位警察竟内疚得自杀身亡。
......It was the policeman. Afterwards he was teased about this incident so much that he shot himself.
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什么是世界马拉松大满贯？最受欢迎的跑马地点是哪里？
世界马拉松大满贯目前包含波士顿马拉松、伦敦马拉松、柏林马拉松、芝加哥马拉松、纽约马拉松、东京马拉松，是一场巡回赛事。
The World Marathon Majors is a circuit of marathon competitions, comprised of Boston Marathon, London Marathon, Berlin Marathon, Chicago Marathon, New York Marathon, and Tokyo Marathon.
一旦跳进“跑马”的大坑，跑大满贯便将成为顶级的追求。
once one starts running marathons, finishing the races in the World Marathon Majors will a top pursuit.
波士顿马拉松，是历史第一城市马拉松，因其严苛的BQ（达标成绩/Boston Qualify）而著名，列满贯赛事之首。通常在4月的第3个星期一举行。
东京马拉松，是亚洲唯一大满贯赛事。时间一般在2月的第3个星期日。
伦敦马拉松，是最难报名的马拉松，以六分之一的概率名列大满贯之最。一般在4月下旬举行。
柏林马拉松，因平坦的赛道和极为舒适的气温，列大满贯PB（个人最佳成绩/personal best）之首，一直保持着六大满贯最快成绩纪录。一般在9月下旬君行。
芝加哥马拉松，其赛道是环形路线，以优秀的赛事管理，以及对普通选手周到的照顾，而建立起自己在世界马拉松中的地位。一般在10月中旬举行。
纽约马拉松，是每年最后一场大满贯收官赛事，就像一场世界马拉松年度大趴，比赛过程丰富、赛道漂亮、民众同乐，平等自由，让人们在这里体味马拉松的全部。一般在11月初举行。
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