# 12,500 runners are set to take part in the Oct. 31 race in Greece.
By DEREK GATOPOULOS
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
Summer Olympics marathon commemorates the path of the warrior Phidippides, who is said to have run from the battlefield in Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. with word that the Greeks had defeated the Persian Army.
ATHENS, Greece — A record 12,500 runners are set to take part in the Athens Classic Marathon on Oct. 31, which will mark 2,500 years since the Battle of Marathon.
By DEREK GATOPOULOS
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
Summer Olympics marathon commemorates the path of the warrior Phidippides, who is said to have run from the battlefield in Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. with word that the Greeks had defeated the Persian Army.
ATHENS, Greece — A record 12,500 runners are set to take part in the Athens Classic Marathon on Oct. 31, which will mark 2,500 years since the Battle of Marathon.
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