The rider was dressed when Paul Revere softened the horse to the Boston marathon finish line and announced: “Runners are coming.”
And the Down Boylston Street arrived.
In a record time. First with a historical family. Even “Banner with the Stars” had some antenna time when the race and region commemorated the 250th anniversary of the first shots fired in the American Revolution.
Sharon Lokedi from Kenya broke the record of the Boston marathon by over two and a half minutes on Monday, leaving the two -time defending master Hellen Obiri a year after she lost to her in one of the closest finals in the history of the race.
Kenyan John Korir recovered from the fall of the starting line to join his brother as a champion of the race – the first relatives who won the oldest and most prestigious annual marathon in the world in history, which comes from 1897.
The locked up ended in two hours of 17 minutes 22 seconds to win the first prize of $ 150,000 and another $ 50,000 bonus for breaking the course record of 2:19:59 set by Buzunenseh Deba in 2014. A year after the sprint to an eight second victory, Obiri was 19 seconds in her attempt to become the first woman in three place with Prosto in 1999.
“Where I passed me last year, I passed her this year,” Locedi said with a laugh. “I didn't even believe. I was still looking back and thought,” Where is she? “I am very grateful to her for pushing me all the way. “
Six months after winning in the flat field, Chicago Korir finished in 2: 04: 45-Drugi the fastest win in Boston's history, when the runners benefited from the perfect weather of the marathon to conquer 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) from Hopkinton to Boston Copley Square.
And he did it, despite the trip close to the start and fall. He got up to join the lead package at the back.
“It occurred to me, should I stop, should I (get up) and go?” He said. “Something told me (get up) and go, and that everything would be fine. … and everything disappeared.”
Korira's racing school fell and hid him in running tights, pulling him out when he ran to the finish. I am waiting to congratulate him: the winner of Boston 2012 Wesley Korir, his older brother.
Linkletter in Canada ends the 6th place, sets PB
Rory Linkletter from Calgary took sixth place in the men's race with the best personal sometimes 2:07:02.
Linkletter was in front of a package of 10 runners halfway before he passed about 16 miles.
“A breakthrough race. The best marathon of my career, I would say,” said Linkletter in an interview with letsrun.com. “I told myself if I put it in and was able to race up to the line, it would probably be a special day.”
The 28-year-old Linkletter wanted to buy back in Boston after the “terrible” debut in 2021 led to 33 place after the Canadian was half in the middle of the race.
On May 25, the Olympian from 2024 complains the Ottawa Marathon, believing that he gives him a “great opportunity” to win his first of 12 races in the distance.
Although the Boston marathon was won by a couple of unrelated John Kelleys and two different Robert Cheruiyot, the Korir are the first brothers they won.
“He explained that he was hard and believes in himself,” said John Korir, who took the fourth and ninth place in his previous two attempts by Boston. “So I believed in myself and followed his advice.”
Conner Mantz from Provo, Utah, took fourth place after he lost the three -sided sprint to the finish with Alphonce Felix Simbu from Tanzania, which took second place, and Cybrian Kotut from Kenya, which was third.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw from Ethiopia was third in the Women's Race. Jess McClain from Phoenix was the best American in seventh place; The winner of 2018, des Linden, who announced that he would retire with competitive running, won Masters Division and was 17 in the general classification.
When she crossed the finish line, other American women leaned tribute to her.
“I had before me those people who paved the way and looked at them. And they always made me feel like I belonged, made me feel that my dreams were important, I helped me along the way,” said Linden. “So I have always tried to do it for people in this sport.”
Kylee Raftis from Toronto took 28th place (2:34:41), Rachel Hannah, also from Toronto, came at 29. (2:34:42) and Kate Bazeley from St. John's, Nl, took 47. (2:39:33).
On the day that also meant the 50th anniversary of the Bob Hall's Pioneering wheelchair race, Marcel Hug from Switzerland won the eighth, and Susannah Scaroni from the United States took the title for women of a wheelchair.
“I always feel emotional when the national anthem is played,” said Scaroni, who won in 2023, but could not defend his title last year due to injury. “And it gives me goosebumps to play this amazing, historical anniversary.”
The field of 30,000 left Hopkinton on Monday morning to Boston's Back Bay, where riders in the arranged war for independence – in the company of FIFE and the drum playing in “Yankee Doodle” – they rode Boylston street in reference to Paul Revere's reference.
The ceremony ended with a temporary stop when the horses frightened the finish sticker on the street and pulled up. The actor depicting a colonial goldsmith and patriot had to jump out and walk on their own when a small early crowd laughed and classified.
After reading the proclamation, Revere gently pulled the horse to the end of the road before he went to subsequent ceremonies commemorating North North April 19, 1775, which warned the sons of freedom that the British were on the march.
Linden, the last American runner who won Boston, read the voice that introduced the reconstruction.
“I wondered:” Did these professional horses? “Because it seemed a lot for them,” she said later. “It turns out that it was so.”
Hug did not have such problems with completing the course, growing on Cops Square in 1:21:34 for his eighth title of a wheelchair in Boston. He defeated the winner Daniel Romanchuk twice by over four minutes.
Scaroni finished in 1:35:20 during the day Boston Athletic Association celebrated Hall's pressure to add a wheelchair unit in 1975.
“I am only here today, because so many amazing people had honesty, perseverance – they knew that they belonged as athletes and let us have what we had today,” she said. “And I am very grateful.
“I'm not brave like them,” said Scaroni. “I'm here only because of how amazing these people are.”