(Boston) Kenyan Evans Chebet won in 2h 06 min 51 sec the 126and Boston Marathon, while her compatriot Peres Jepchirchir took first place among women with a time of 2:21:01.
Posted at 12:27 p.m.
The marathon returned to its Easter Monday window, after being canceled in 2020 and postponed to October last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the age of 33, Chebet won his first victory in a major marathon (Berlin, Tokyo, London, Boston, Chicago, New York).
Arrived alone thanks to a sharp attack at 33and kilometer, he beat two compatriots, winners of the two previous editions, Lawrence Cherono in 2019 (2 h 07 min 21 sec) and Benson Kipruto (2 h 07 min 27 sec) in 2021.
Photo BRIAN SNYDER, REUTERS
Peres Jepcherchir
Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir, Olympic champion in Tokyo last year, won the marathon in 2h 21 min 01 sec, in which she participated for the first time on Monday.
The 28-year-old runner won her fifth consecutive victory since 2019 and her second in a major marathon, after that of New York in 2021 (the other four are Berlin, Tokyo, London and Chicago).
She narrowly outstripped the Ethiopian Ababel Yeshanei (2 h 21 min 05 sec), with whom she had been neck and neck since halfway through the race. Kenyan Mary Wacera Ngugi (2 h 21 min 32 sec) completed the podium.