All About Marathon!
A marathon is a 42.195 km running race.
Though the story has never been factually backed up it is said that when Athenians won over Persians in 490 BC in Marathon, a foot-runner named Phillippides ran 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens to deliver the good news without stopping. He yelled "We have won!" on reaching the Athens assembly, collapsed and died. Hence Phillippides is the first person to ever run a marathon. The distance 40 kilometers thus became significant and ...