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
Robert Frost's poem "A Cliff Dwelling" reminds me of the people who must have lived here "Oh years ago--ten thousand years" and enjoyed the beauty and safety of a cliff. A place "to rest from his besetting fears". Welcome to mine.
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.
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Abenaki African-Twi Akkadian Albanian Algonquian American Amorite Anglo-Saxon Arabic Aragonese Aramaic Araucan Armenian Assyrian Asturian Avestan Azeri Babylonian Basque Belarusian Benin Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Breton Bulgarian Catalan Celtic Chechen Chinese Coptic Cornish Croatian Czech Dacian Dakota Sioux Danish Dutch Egyptian English Eskimo Estonian Faroese Finnish Flemish Frankish French Frisian Gaelic Galician Gaulish German Gothic Greek Hawaiian Hebrew Hittite Hungarian Hurrian Igbo Indonesian Iranian Irish Gaelic Italian Japanese Javanese Ladino Latin Latvian Limburgish Malayalam Mandinka Manx Maori Mongolian Mormon Nahuatl Nigerian Norman Norse Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Persian Phoenician Pictish Polish Portuguese Proto-Indo-European Quahadi Roman Russian Sabine Saimogaitian Sanskrit Saxon Scottish Semitic Shakespearean Silurian Sindarin Slavic Slavonic Slovak Sogdian Spanish Sumerian Swahili Swedish Tongan Turkic Vietnamese Visigothic Welsh Xitsonga Yiddish Yoruba
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