In 2014 I featured a series of blog posts introducing you to 2,014 names. For the most part they were names that were brand new to me as well. Some names may be more familiar but I found the meaning or origin or some other aspect of the name made it worthy of inclusion here. You may love some of the names, you may hate some, but hopefully you enjoy learning about all of them.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Names of Interest of Boston Marathon Winners

My cousin just qualified to race in the Boston Marathon next April! I got curious and read a bit about it. Given his qualifying time, I wondered how much faster the winners are. (about an hour and a half faster). And I noticed quite a few interesting names. Here they are:

MEN

Stylianos  - from Greece, won in 1946

Suh - from South Korea, won in 1947

Gösta - from Sweden, won in 1949

Shigeki- from Japan, won in 1951

Doroteo - from Guatemala, won in 1952

Keizo - from Japan, won in 1953

Veikko - from Finland, won in 1954

Hideo - from Japan, won in 1955

Antti - from Finland, won in 1956

Franjo - from Yugoslavia, won in 1958

Eino - from Finland, won in 1959, 1961, 1962

Paavo - from Finland, won in 1960

Aurèle - from Finland, won in 1963, 1964

Morio - from Japan, won in 1965

Yoshiaki - from Japan, 1969

Olavi - from Finland, 1972

Toshihiko - from Japan, 1981, 1987

Abebe - from Ethiopia, 1989

Gelindo - from Italy, 1990

Cosmas - from Kenya, 1993, 1994, 1995

Lameck - from Kenya, 1997

Rodgers - from Kenya, 2002   * Bill Rodgers, an American runner,  won the Boston Marathon 4 times

Hailu - from Ethiopia, 2005

Deriba - from Ethiopia, 2009

Lelisa - from Ethiopia, 2013, 2015

Meb - from USA, 2014

Lemi - Ethiopia, 2016

Yuki - from Japan, 2018
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wheelchair racers *1975 on

Heinz - from Switzerland, 1994, 1996

Masazumi - from Japan, 1997

Hiroyuki - from Japan, 2007



WOMEN
*the women's division of the race officially began only in 1972

Miki - from USA, 1974

I recently saw a lady with this name as a commentator on a tv news show. Her name was said like Mikey (long I sound). Not sure if the marathon runner said her name like this, or like Mickey (short i sound). I don't know if it derives from the Hebrew name Michael or from some other origin.

Liane - from West Germany, 1975, world record 2 hrs, 42 min, 24 sec

Fatuma - from Ethiopia, 1997, 1998, 1999

Lidiya - from Russia, 2007

Dire - from Ethiopia, 2008

Teyba - from Ethiopia, 2010

Buzunesh - from Ethiopia, 2014, current course record at 2 hrs, 19 min, 59 sec

Atsede - from Ethiopia, 2016

Worknesh - from Ethiopia, 2019
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wheelchair racers *1977 on

Wakako - from Japan, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011






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