Beppu-Ōita Marathon
Robert J. "Bob" Hodge (born 1955) is an American distance runner who came third in the 1979 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:12:30. He has also won the Mount Washington Road Race (1976–1980, 1985 and 1987), the Bay to Breakers Road Race in San Francisco (1979), and the Beppu-Ōita Marathon in Japan (1982). His personal best time was his second-place finish at the 1980 Nike OTC Marathon in Eugene, OR at 2:10:59.