A driver who was disguised when Paul Revere loved his horse to the Boston Marathon finish line and proclaimed: “The runners come.”
And Down Boylston Street came.
In record time. With a historical family first. And even “The Star-Spangled Banner” got some broadcast time when the race and the region recalled the 250th anniversary of the first shots fired in the American Revolution.
Sharon Lokedi from Kenya broke the record of Boston Marathon Course by more than two and a half minutes on Monday and exceeded one of the closest placements in racing history for a year for a year after she had had two -time defending champions.
The Kenyan John Korir recovered from a starting line to join his brother as a racing master – the first relatives who won the oldest and most respected annual annual marathon in a history of 1897.
Lokedi ended 22 seconds in two hours 17 minutes to claim the first prize of $ 150,000 and another bonus of $ 50,000 for the start of the course record of 2:19:59 by Buzunesh Deba in 2014. A year after the spot to eight second winners, Obiri was 19 seconds in her attempt, since Fatuma Roba three LA. To win Roba for three seconds.
“Where she passed me last year, I passed her this year,” said Lokedi with a laugh. “I didn’t even believe. I kept looking back and thought:” Where is she? “I am just so grateful to her that she pushed me through all the way.”
Six months after winning Chicago’s flatter course, Korir ended in 2: 04: 45-the second fastest winning time in the history of Boston when the runners took advantage of the perfect marathon weather to conquer the 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) from Hopkinton to the Boston Copley Square.
And he did it, even though he stumbled near the start and fall. He got up to turn the lead package in the rear.
“What happened to me, should I stay below or should I (get up) and go?” he said. “Something told me I should get up and go, and that everything would be fine. … and everything went away.”
Korir’s race fell and put it in his running tights and pulled it out when he sprinted to the finish line. Wait to congratulate him: 2012 Boston winner Wesley Korir, his older brother.
Canada’s linkletter ends the 6th place, sets pb sets
Calgary’s Rory Linkletter took sixth place in the men’s race with a personal best time from 2:07:02.
Linkletters was in front of a pack of 10 runners at halftime before it was passed around 16.
“Breakthrough Race. Best marathon of my career, I would say,” said Linkletter in an interview with Letsrun.com. “I said to myself if I lay in and could be able to drive to the line, it would probably be a special day.”
The 28-year-old Linkletter wanted to redeem himself in Boston after a “cruel” debut in 2021, which led to a 33rd place after the Canadian was a little in the main pack of over half of the race.
On May 25th, the Olympian will lead the Ottawa marathon in 2024 and believe that it offers him a “great opportunity” to win his first of 12 races in the distance.
Although the Boston Marathon was won by two non -related John Kelleys and two different Robert Cheruiyots, the Korirs are the first brothers who won.
“He explained to be hard and believe in himself,” said John Korir, who took fourth and ninth place in his two former Boston attempts. “So I believed in myself and followed his advice.”
Conner Mantz from Provo, Utah, finished fourth after he had lost a three-way sprint with Alphonce Felix Felix Simbu from Tanzania, who took second place, and Cybrian Kotut from Kenya, who finished third.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw from Ethiopia was third in the women’s race. Jess McClain from Phoenix was the top American in seventh place; The winner of the 2018, the Linden, who had announced to withdraw from the scope of competition, won the Masters Division and was 17th overall.
When she crossed the finish line, the other American women bowed to her tribute.
“I had these people in front of me who paved the way and I looked up at them. And they always made me feel like I heard myself, made the feeling that my dreams were valid and helped me,” said Linden. “So I always tried to do that for people in this sport.”
Torontos Kylee Raftis ended 28th (2:34:41), Rachel Hannah, also from Toronto, came on 29th (2:34:42) and Kate Bazeley from St. Johns, NL, 47. (2:39:33).
On a day on which Bob Halls was also pioneering wheelchair race for the 50th anniversary of Switzerland, Marcel Hug from Switzerland won his eighth victory and Susannah Scaroni from the United States took the wheelchair title of women.
“I always feel emotional when the national anthem is played,” said Scaroni, who won in 2023, but could not defend her title last year because of an injury. “And to play our amazing, historical anniversary, gives me goose bumps.”
A field of 30,000 Hopkinton left Bostons Back Bay on Monday morning, where the drivers in the independence war robe – accompanied by a Fife and a drum that played “Yankee Doodle”, the Boylston Street down in a replica of Paul Reveres.
The ceremony temporarily stood at a standstill when the horses frighten and raised from the finish line sticker on the street. The actor, who portrayed the colonial Silversmith and Patriot, had to go the last stages himself when the small early amount laughed and clapped.
After Revere had read a proclamation, Revere gently pulled the rest of the way to the rest of the path before going to further ceremonies to commemorate the midnight drive on April 19, 1775, which the freedom sons warned that the British were on the march.
Linden, the last American runner who won Boston, read the voice-over that introduced the re-enactment.
“I wondered:” Are these professional horses? “Because it seemed a lot for her,” she said afterwards. “It turns out that it was.”
Hug had no such problems to complete the course, and zoomed in 1:21:34 in the Copley Square for his eighth Boston Rollstuhltuhltuhltuhl. He defeated the two -time winner Daniel Romanchuk for more than four minutes.
Scaroni ended with 1:35:20 in one day when the Boston Athletic Association added a wheelchair division in 1975.
“I am only here today because so many incredible people had integrity and persistence – they knew that they belonged as an athlete and allowed them to have what we have today,” she said. “And I’m so grateful.
“I’m not brave like you,” said Scaroni. “I’m only here because these people are.”
