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Since 1990, the Boston Marathon has been ineligible for world records, as the start and finish are too far away from each other, and the race is a net downhill. [13] In 2011, Geoffrey Mutai won the race in 2:03:02, which was the world's fastest time for the marathon, beating the official world record by 57 seconds.
At the 2011 Boston Marathon on April 18, 2011, Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya ran a time of 2:03:02, which was the fastest ever marathon at the time (since surpassed by Eliud Kipchoge's 2:01:39 in Berlin 2018). However, due to the reasons listed above, Mutai's performance was not ratified as an official world record.
Greg Meyer (born September 18, 1955) is an American long-distance runner.Meyer's winning time for the 1983 Boston Marathon race was 2:09.00. He was the last American to win the Boston Marathon until 2014, and the last person born in America to win the Chicago Marathon until 2017.
Chebet won the Boston Marathon on Monday for the second year in a row — posting a time of 2 The post Kenyan runners sweep the Boston marathon appeared first on TheGrio.
To qualify for the Boston Marathon, you must achieve a qualifying time depending on your gender and age group. For men ages 18 to 34, they must complete a marathon in 3 hours or less .
Boston Marathon two-time winner and longtime competitor John Adelbert Kelley (September 6, 1907 – October 6, 2004) was an American long-distance runner who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics , in 1936 and 1948, and competed in the Boston Marathon over 50 times, winning in 1935 and 1945.
Men's winner Sisay Lemma and women's victor Hellen Obiri led a field of 30,000 runners from 100 countries at this year's Boston Marathon.
In 1975, Rodgers then burst into national prominence when he won the 1975 Boston Marathon in 2:09:55, setting a new American record. [3] Rodgers won both the New York City Marathon and the Boston Marathon four times each between 1975 and 1980, twice breaking the American record at Boston with a time of 2:09:55 in 1975 and 2:09:27 in 1979.