page_title: Beach to Beacon 10K
section_title: Past winners
hierarchical_section_title: Beach to Beacon 10K / Past winners
caption_attribution_description: English: 2005 World Championships in Athletics, Helsinki, Finland Marathon Women, 14. August 2005.
context_page_description: The Toronto-Dominion Bank Beach to Beacon 10K is a 10-kilometer road running event that takes place along the coastline of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It begins at Crescent Beach State Park and ends at the Portland Head Light in Fort Williams Park.
  Starting out as mainly a local event, athletes from all over the U.S. and various parts of the world now participate in the annual event, including some world-class distance runners, including Olympic Marathon Silver medalists Catherine Ndereba and Meb Keflezighi, as well as Chicago Marathon winner Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot. It was founded by U.S. women's marathon runner Joan Benoit Samuelson, who in 1984, won the first ever women's Olympic marathon. 1998 was the first year that the event was held and over 3000 runners participated in the race. From 1998 to 2004, the event was sponsored by the local People's Heritage Bank. Since 2005, the race has been organised and sponsored by Toronto, Ontario-based Toronto-Dominion Bank. The 2009 race event registration filled in just 1 hour 45 minutes.
  The race is managed by DMSE, Inc. whose president, Dave McGillivray, directs the Boston Marathon and more than 30 other races each year.
context_section_description: Key: Course record
caption: Catherine Ndereba has won the women's race on five occasions.
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