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The 2011 Boston Marathon took place on Monday, April 18, 2011, as the 115th official running of the Boston Marathon. On October 18, 2010, the 20,000 spots reserved for qualifiers were filled in a record-setting eight hours and three minutes. [1] Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the men's race in a time of 2:03:02. [2]
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.
The men's and women's winners of the 2011 Boston Marathon ran in the first B.A.A. 10K and both won their respective categories. Geoffrey Mutai won the men's race in 27 minutes 19 seconds (a state record), while Caroline Kilel crossed the line in 31:58 to win the women's section. [7]
Ebbetts crossed the finish line on Boylston Street in a time of 3 hours, 46 minutes, 2 seconds, first among the 60 runners in the group. ... Exeter's Dawn Ebbetts wins Boston Marathon women's 70 ...
Kinzang Lhamo of Bhutan was the final runner to cross the finish line in the women's marathon, showing what it truly means to be an Olympic athlete.
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.
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. ... but failed to cross the finish line. He placed 30th at ...
Rosie M. Vivas [1] (née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.