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28 Facts About Tom Longboat - FactSnippet
Thomas Charles Longboat was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario and, for much of his career, the dominant long-distance runner.
Tom Longboat - The Canadian Encyclopedia
Longboat was the first Indigenous person to win the Boston Marathon (1907). He competed for Canada at the 1908 Olympic Games. He was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.
Tom Longboat - Wikipedia
Tom Longboat was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. He was the first person of Native American descent (Onondaga) to win the Boston Marathon, and one of only two Native Americans ever to win it (the other being Ellison Brown, a Narragansett).
Tom Longboat Facts for Kids
When Tom Longboat was a child, a man named Bill Davis inspired him. Bill Davis, a Mohawk resident from the reserve, finished second in the Boston Marathon in 1901.
Tom Longboat: Record-Setting Canadian Runner | Almanac.com
Tom Longboat spent 4 years in the Canadian Army as a runner and message carrier during World War I. (People joked that he could outrun bullets.) The Longboat Roadrunners of Toronto formed in 1980 in Longboat’s honor.
Tom Longboat | History
In 2008, June 4th was named Tom Longboat Day (Tom Longboat Day Act, Bill 120). In 2016, David M General designed and sculpted the Tom Longboard monument during the Pan Am Games. It recognized his traditional native values, his role as a runner, and a soldier in the war.
Tom Longboat - athleticsontario.ca
Inspired by a fellow resident of Six Nations Reserve, Bill Davis, a Boston runner up, Longboat trained to become a world class marathoner. His first key victory was in Hamilton’s Around the Bay 30km in 1906, the oldest road race in North America.
Tom Longboat - Team Canada - Canadian Olympic Committee
He entered the London 1908 Olympic marathon as a favourite, but while running in second place, he collapsed from exhaustion just six miles from the finish. After turning professional, he became world champion the following year. In 1912 he set the world record over 15 miles.
Who Do You Think I Am? A Story of Tom Longboat - Canada's History
According to the Herald, twenty-year-old Tom Longboat left his nearest competitor “as if he had been standing still.” In running, this young Onondagan was engaging in a significant, if loosely understood, tradition common to many Indigenous societies in North America.
Runner's Web Tom Longboat Story
Among Canadian marathon runners, there was never a greater name to conjure with than Tom Longboat. In the decade leading up to the First World War, Mr. Longboat was the nearly unassailable king of the marathon, the Wayne Gretzky or Tommy Burns of his sport.
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