SHATTERED TODAY. YEAH, IT WAS A REMARKABLE DAY. AN EPIC DAY IN BOSTON. SHARON LOKEDI OF KENYA SET THAT RECORD WITH HER TIME OF TWO HOURS, 17 MINUTES, 22 SECONDS. YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT SHE CAME IN SECOND LAST YEAR IN ONE OF THE CLOSEST FINISHES THIS RACE HAS EVER SEEN. THIS YEAR, SHE PULLED AHEAD FOR A NEW COURSE RECORD AND ANOTHER KENYAN RUNNER CELEBRATING TONIGHT, JOHN CAREER. DESPITE FALLING AT THE START LINE. THAT’S RIGHT, HE ACTUALLY FELL HIS TWO HOURS FOUR MINUTES 45 SECONDS IS STILL THE SECOND FASTEST TIME FOR MEN IN BOSTON. THAT IS AMAZING. IF THE NAME SOUNDS FAMILIAR, THAT MIGHT BE BECAUSE HIS BROTHER WESLEY WON BOSTON IN 2012. THE TWO SHARING AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT AT THE FINISH LINE. YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOU CAN MAKE IT. SO TODAY I’VE MADE IT AND WE ARE HAPPY AS A FAMILY TO BE TWO BROTHERS WINNING BOSTON. WELL, I FIRST WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE. IT WAS A TOUGH ONE OUT THERE, AND I’M JUST SO GLAD THAT WE HAD EACH OTHER TO FIGHT ALL THE WAY THROUGH. IN THE WHEELCHAIR DIVISION, SWITZERLAND’S MARCEL HUG IS ONCE AGAIN THE CHAMPION WITH A TOTAL TIME OF ONE HOUR, 21 MINUTES, 34 SECONDS. THE WOMEN’S WINNER IS CELEBRATING HER SECOND TITLE, AND SHE’S AN AMERICAN. SUSANNA SCARONI FROM OREGO
Record broken in Boston Marathon as new, returning champions crowned
History was made Monday at the 129th Boston Marathon, as the women’s winner set a new course record.Sharon Lokedi, of Kenya, won the women’s race in a time of 2:17:22, more than two minutes faster than the previous record set in 2014 by Bezunesh Deba, of Ethiopia.Lokedi came in second last year in one of the closest finishes Boston had ever seen. Last year’s winner, Hellen Obiri, also of Kenya, finished second Monday in a time of 2:17:41.”I first want to say congratulations to everyone,” Lokedi said. “It was a tough run out there, and I’m just so glad we had each other to fight all the way through.”>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play <<Another Kenyan runner celebrating Monday was the men’s winner, John Korir. Despite falling at the starting line, his time of 2:04:45 was the second-fastest time for men in Boston.Korir’s name might sound familiar to fans of the Boston Marathon because his brother, Wesley, won the race in 2012. The two shared an emotional moment at the finish line.>> Did you run? Find your finish”If you believe in yourself, you can make it, so today, I can make it, and we’re happy as the Korir family to be two brothers winning Boston,” John Korir said.Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, won his third straight Boston Marathon in the men’s wheelchair division with an unofficial time of 1:21:34. Hug, 39, holds the Boston Marathon course record of 1:17:06, which he set in 2023, and has now won the race eight times.American Susannah Scaroni won the women’s wheelchair division in an unofficial time of 1:35:20.This was the second Boston Marathon win for Scaroni, of Oregon, who won in 2023. She finished about two minutes ahead of Catherine Debrunner, of Switzerland.
BOSTON —History was made Monday at the 129th Boston Marathon, as the women’s winner set a new course record.
Sharon Lokedi, of Kenya, won the women’s race in a time of 2:17:22, more than two minutes faster than the previous record set in 2014 by Bezunesh Deba, of Ethiopia.
Lokedi came in second last year in one of the closest finishes Boston had ever seen. Last year’s winner, Hellen Obiri, also of Kenya, finished second Monday in a time of 2:17:41.
“I first want to say congratulations to everyone,” Lokedi said. “It was a tough run out there, and I’m just so glad we had each other to fight all the way through.”
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Another Kenyan runner celebrating Monday was the men’s winner, John Korir. Despite falling at the starting line, his time of 2:04:45 was the second-fastest time for men in Boston.
Korir’s name might sound familiar to fans of the Boston Marathon because his brother, Wesley, won the race in 2012. The two shared an emotional moment at the finish line.
>> Did you run? Find your finish
“If you believe in yourself, you can make it, so today, I can make it, and we’re happy as the Korir family to be two brothers winning Boston,” John Korir said.
Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, won his third straight Boston Marathon in the men’s wheelchair division with an unofficial time of 1:21:34. Hug, 39, holds the Boston Marathon course record of 1:17:06, which he set in 2023, and has now won the race eight times.
American Susannah Scaroni won the women’s wheelchair division in an unofficial time of 1:35:20.
This was the second Boston Marathon win for Scaroni, of Oregon, who won in 2023. She finished about two minutes ahead of Catherine Debrunner, of Switzerland.
