The 'mainstay' of Korean marathons, Lee Bong-ju (then affiliated with Samsung Electronics), won the 105th Boston Marathon in the early morning of April 17, 2001 (Korean time) with a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, and 43 seconds, and wore the laurel wreath of honor on his head. This video is the highlight of the race at that time. This was the third time that a Korean has won the Boston Marathon, following Seo Yun-bok (1947) and Ham Ki-yong (1950). On this day, the national anthem rang out over Boston for the first time in 51 years. Lee Bong-ju, who led the group from the beginning, began to run solo from the 40km point, and crossed the finish line 24 seconds ahead of Silvio Guerra (Ecuador). Lee Bong-ju, who stopped Kenya's 11-game winning streak, washed away his poor performance (24th place) at the Sydney Olympics by winning the world's most prestigious Boston Marathon after finishing second in the Fukuoka Marathon in Japan in December 2000. The Boston Marathon was created on April 19, 1897 by the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) based on the marathon adopted at the first Olympic Games (Athens, Greece) in 1896. The course at the time was also modeled after the Olympics, with a 25-mile (approximately 40.25 km) hilly road. The date was chosen for April 19 because that day is Patriot's Day, which commemorates the fight of Boston residents against British invasion. Since 1969, when Patriot's Day was fixed to the third Monday in April, the date of the marathon has also changed. The Boston Marathon, which has had foreign athletes since 1900, became the first women's marathon when the women's division was established in 1977. It is one of the world's top five marathons, along with the London Marathon, Berlin Marathon, Chicago Marathon, and New York Marathon. The Boston Marathon has a particularly deep connection with Korea. Three marathons, including Lee Bong-ju, have won the race, and one world record and two Korean records have been set at this race. In the 51st race in 1947, Seo Yun-bok won the race with a then-world record of 2 hours 25 minutes 39 seconds, and Nam Seung-ryong (deceased) came in 10th with a time of 2 hours 41 minutes 10 seconds. In the 1950 race, Ham Ki-yong, Song Gil-yun, and Choi Yun-chil swept the first to third places, raising the status of the newly independent nation of Korea in the international community. In the 61st (1957) competition, Lim Jong-woo set a Korean record of 2 hours 24 minutes 55 seconds and came in 3rd place, and Han Seung-cheol came in 5th place (2 hours 28 minutes 18 seconds). After that, Korea went through a slump, but in 1993, Kim Jae-ryong came in 2nd place with a great record of 2 hours 9 minutes 43 seconds, and in 1994, Hwang Yeong-jo set a Korean record of 2 hours 8 minutes 09 seconds and came in 4th place. At that time, Lee Bong-ju came in 11th place (2 hours 9 minutes 57 seconds) and began to emerge as a world-class athlete. Everything about the Marathon - Marathon Online http://marathon.pe.kr