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Paula Radcliffe is on course to receive a prestigious award at the Boston Marathon.
Former world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe has said the medal she will recieve on Monday after the Boston Marathon race will have nothing special regarding her career.
Radcliffe 51, who is also a former world champion and a winner of seven major marathons and the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, will run for pride in Boston according to the Daily mail.
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"I think it should probably be pride of place. At the moment, I haven’t got any of my medals on display, but I will maybe put this one up in a frame," she said.
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Radcliffe will be awarded the Six Star Medal for completing all the six of the original major marathons. The British athlete turned BBC commentator ticked off four at the peak of her powers, winning in London and New York three times each, triumphing in Chicago and placing third in Berlin.
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Radcliffe then retired in 2015 after being plagued by a persistent foot injury. But a decade on, she has returned to the roads to chase down her remaining stars – crossing Tokyo off her list last month and now lining up in Boston on Monday to complete the set.
"I will just be happy to get there in one piece. But I am excited about it. It has been a goal of mine for some time to try and complete the six. You think, “Are you really a marathon runner until you have done it?”
"I thought it wasn’t going to be possible because of my foot. But I paced a group of athletes for most of Berlin in 2023 and my foot was OK, so I started looking at the calendar and it worked this year.
"I thought it’s now or never and I like the story of it finishing in Boston. That was where I won the World Junior Cross Country Championships in 1992 and that was the race that gave me belief I could make it as a professional athlete."
Radcliffe's world record set in London of 2hr 15min 25seconds stood from 2003 to 2019, making her one of the greatest runners over the 26.1 mile distance.
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