Forty South Dakotans Participate in 2017 Boston Marathon

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This year, forty residents of South Dakota have made the trip out east to participate in one of the most popular running events of the spring - the Boston Marathon.

According to the list presented by the Boston Athletic Association, this years marathon has around 30,000 entries. Sioux Falls has the most runners of any South Dakota city with eighteen. Rapid City is next with nine and Brookings has two.

Dupree, Flandreau, Spearfish, Vermillion, Lennox, Beresford, Tea, Woonsocket, Langford, Harrisburg, and Madison each have one representative from those communities.

The youngest runner at this years marathon is Connor Branick, 23, of Sioux Falls. Dan Bjerke is the oldest runner, 68, from Rapid City. In total, six of the South Dakota entries are 60 years or older. Thirteen of them are 50 years or older and over half, twenty-three South Dakota athletes competing, are 40 years or older.

Here's the full list of the South Dakota participants, sorted alphabetically:

How does South Dakota compare to its neighboring states? Minnesota - 491, Iowa - 124, Nebraska - 93, Montana - 39, and North Dakota - 34.

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