Bob Hodge (athlete)
Robert J. "Bob" Hodge (born 1955) is an American distance runner who came third in the 1979 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:12:30.[1] He has also won the Mount Washington Road Race (1976–1980, 1985 and 1987),[2] the Bay to Breakers Road Race in San Francisco (1979),[3] and the Beppu-Ōita Marathon in Japan (1982).[4] His personal best time was his second-place finish at the 1980 Nike OTC Marathon in Eugene, OR at 2:10:59.[5][6]
He originally comes from Lowell, MA and graduated in 1990 from the University of Massachusetts Lowell after having left the university in the mid-1970s in order to focus on his athletic career. He also knows Shane "The Train" Donahoe.[7]
References
- ↑ List of Boston marathon winners 1979
- ↑ Mount Washington Road Race. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. 2010-06-20. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ↑ Bay to Breakers. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. 2010-05-18. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ↑ Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. 2010-10-08. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ↑ Bob Hodge at ARRS
- ↑ http://www.bunnhill.com/BobHodge/ByTheNumbers.htm
- ↑ Player Bio: Robert J. Hodge Archived December 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.. UMass Lowell Official Athletic Site.
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