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John Hancock Financial Services: Boston Marathon
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Along with signing Kastor, John Hancock announced they have ... secured 2006 Boston Champion Rita Jeptoo of Kenya to return and defend her title. Only 25 years old, Jeptoo is a rising star in the sport and brings strong credentials to the race. Winning the first two marathons she entered in Milan and Stockholm, Jeptoo then placed seventh at the 2005 World Championships. After her Boston Marathon win last year, she ran the fourth fastest 20K of all time and then went on to finish a strong fourth in the New York City Marathon.
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BOSTON, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In its 23rd year as the principal sponsor of the Boston Marathon, John Hancock Financial announced their team of top women contenders for the 112th running of the race on April 21. Defending Boston Champion Lidiya Grigoryeva is set to compete against 2006 winner Rita Jeptoo, two-time runner-up Jelena Prokopcuka and a new generation of international talent.
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Lina Storm, CLU, ChFC, is a marketing manager in the Advanced Marketing Group at John Hancock Financial Services, Boston. She is responsible for creating marketing resources relative to the applications of insurance products in financial planning and for participating in the development of planning software and field training programs.
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Did you know that John Hancock was almost named after Benjamin Franklin? Or that, when the 60-story glass John Hancock Tower was built in Boston's Back Bay in 1971, a steel beam with more than 2,000 employees' signatures was hoisted to the top of the building for posterity, and still remains there to this day?
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