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Rosie M. Vivas [1] (née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course. She is believed to have ...
Apr 21, 2015 · T o observers at the finish line, Rosie Ruiz must have seemed like the fittest athlete ever to run the Boston Marathon. On this day, April 21, in 1980, the 26-year-old New Yorker finished first...
Aug 8, 2019 · Rosie Ruiz, whose name become synonymous with cheating when Boston Marathon officials vacated her victory in the 1980 race after determining that she had sneaked into it about a mile from the...
Aug 8, 2019 · Rosie Ruiz, whose name is notoriously synonymous with marathon cheating, died on July 8, from cancer, according to an obituary posted by her family in Palm Beach, Florida. She was 66 and known as...
Dec 23, 2019 · On April 21, 1980, at the Boston Marathon, the fastest men finished first, and then, at 2 hours, 31 minutes and 56 seconds — an amazing time, a world-class time — the first woman crossed the ...
Apr 21, 2022 · CBC Sports' daily newsletter looks back to 1980, when the only Boston Marathon victory ever by a Canadian woman was briefly stolen by one of the most infamous fraudsters in sports history.
Aug 9, 2019 · Rosie Ruiz, who won the 1980 Boston Marathon but was later disqualified for cutting the course, died of cancer in Florida. She was also convicted of theft and cocaine trafficking in New York.
