Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 18 ga Yuli 1896 Pierre Giffard ya shirya bikin buɗewa na Marathon na Paris a madadin "Le Petit Journal". Wannan taron ya biyo bayan nasarar tseren marathon a wasannin Olympics na farko a Athens a 1896. Giffard ya fara tseren a gaban babban taron jama'a a Porte Maillot, kuma ya bi hanya zuwa Versailles kuma ya gama a gaban 'yan kallo 2,000 a kan gada a kan kogin Seine a Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, kimanin nesa na. A lokacin tseren an bayar da rahoton cewa abubuwan shakatawa sun hada da ruwan 'ya'yan itace da gilashin shampen. Hurst ya sami kyautar francs 200 a lokacin da ya ci nasara na 2:31:30; minti 27 da sauri fiye da alamar 2:58:50 da Spiridon Louis na Girka ya kafa watanni uku da suka gabata a farkon tseren Olympic a Athens, Girka
a ranar 10 ga Afrilu 1896. An saita a kan hanyoyin da suka fi guntu fiye da nisan kilomita 42.195 (26 mil 385 yadi), ba a taɓa amincewa da wasan kwaikwayon Louis da Hurst a matsayin tarihin duniya a cikin marathon ba.