Ronald MacDonald (athlete)
Ronald John MacDonald (born March 30, 1874 in Antigonish , Nova Scotia , † September 3, 1947 ) was a Canadian marathon runner .
In 1898 he won the Boston Marathon . It took him two hours and 42 minutes to cover the 38.5-kilometer route.
At the marathon of the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 he was the seventh and last of 13 runners who had started and was registered at the finish. Like other foreign athletes, he complained about the organization and suggested that the local participants had shortened the course.
Web links
- Entry into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame
- Ronald MacDonald in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ Boston Marathon: Boston Marathon History: 1897-1900 ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ CBC : Paris almost put an end to the Olympic movement . 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacDonald, Ronald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacDonald, Ronald John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antigonish , Nova Scotia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1947 |