marathon

long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 km
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marathon

Summary

marathon is a sports discipline[1]. marathon ranks in the top 0.93% of sports_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,318 views/month, #3 of 324).[2]

Key Facts

  • marathon's image is recorded as Berlin marathon.jpg[3].
  • marathon's image is recorded as Frankfurt-Marathon-2015-01.jpg[4].
  • marathon's instance of is recorded as sports discipline[5].
  • Battle of Marathon is named after marathon[6].
  • marathon's GND ID is recorded as 4037441-5[7].
  • marathon's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85080932[8].
  • marathon's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119355660[9].
  • marathon's subclass of is recorded as racing[10].
  • marathon's subclass of is recorded as long-distance running[11].
  • marathon's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00567483[12].
  • marathon's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 27223[13].
  • marathon's sport is recorded as athletics[14].
  • marathon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d38m[15].
  • marathon's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph122635[16].
  • marathon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Marathon running[17].
  • marathon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Marathons[18].
  • marathon's page banner is recorded as Stockholm Marathon 2009d banner.jpg[19].
  • marathon's record held is recorded as Dennis Kipruto Kimetto[20].
  • marathon's record held is recorded as Eliud Kipchoge[21].
  • marathon's record held is recorded as Eliud Kipchoge[22].
  • marathon's record held is recorded as Kelvin Kiptum[23].
  • marathon's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 796.425 2[24].
  • marathon's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10645526[25].
  • marathon's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 516552[26].
  • marathon's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0121778[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for marathon include telethon[28].

Why It Matters

marathon ranks in the top 0.93% of sports_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,318 views/month, #3 of 324).[2] marathon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] marathon is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for marathon include telethon[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . hdsports.de. hdsports.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . worldathletics.org. worldathletics.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . worldathletics.org. worldathletics.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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