Marcel Hug of Switzerland won the men’s wheelchair race in a course record time – his sixth victory in Boston – and American Susannah Scaroni won her first Boston title despite having to stop early in the race to tighten her wheel.įor the first time, the race also includes a nonbinary division, with 27 athletes registered.Ī dozen former champions and participants from 120 countries and all 50 US states were in the field of 30,000 running 10 years after the bombing that killed three people and wounded hundreds more. “In sports you win and you lose and there is always tomorrow to set a new challenge,” said Kipchoge, who has stated a goal to win all six major marathons. He also congratulated the winners and thanked fans for their support. I pushed myself as hard as I could, but sometimes, we must accept that today wasn’t the day to push the barrier to a greater height.” “I live for the moments where I get to challenge the limits,” Kipchoge said in a statement distributed by the race organizers. But to the surprise of the fans lined up along Boylston Street for the final sprit, he wasn’t among the three leaders. He also broke two hours in an exhibition in a Vienna park.įighting a trace of a headwind and rain that dampened the roads, Kipchoge ran in the lead pack from the start in Hopkinton until the series of climbs collectively known as Heartbreak Hill. The 38-year-old has won two Olympic gold medals and four of the six major marathons Boston – he has never run New York – is now the only one he has competed in and failed to win. Kipchoge had been hoping to add a Boston Marathon victory to his unprecedented running resume.

Scott Fauble was the top American, finishing seventh. Kipchoge, a 12-time major marathon winner, was sixth. Geay won a footrace for second, 10 seconds behind the winner and two seconds ahead of Kipruto. Chebet, 2021 winner Benson Kipruto of Kenya and Gabriel Geay of Tanzania dropped Kipchoge from the lead pack around Mile 20 and then ran together for the last three miles.

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