Six Nations runner chases his great-great-grandfather Tom Longboat’s Boston Marathon time – CBC

Apr 17, 2026

Kristian Jamieson intends to get as close as he can to Longboat’s time of 2:24:24

To enter one of the most iconic marathons in the world, the Boston Marathon, you first have to run a full marathon on a qualifying course and make the required time for your age group just to apply; of that pool only the fastest runners are considered.

Kristian Jamieson, who is Upper Cayuga from Six Nations of the Grand River near Hamilton, is running the Boston Marathon for the second time this year.

The 24-year-old is the great-great-grandson of Tom Longboat, the first Indigenous person to win that race.

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