Sisay Lemma stuns
Evans Chebet in men's Boston Marathon; Hellen Obiri win
women's title
Richard
Morin
USA TODAY
In the elite men's group,
Ethiopian Sisay Lemma
denied Evans Chebet, 35, of his third straight victory.
The Kenyan would have been only the fifth man in the race's
more than 125-year history to win in three straight years.
Ethiopian Sisay Lemma denied Evans Chebet of a historic
third-straight victory with an unofficial time of 2:06.17
to win the elite men's division of the 2024 Boston Marathon.
Chebet finished in third place.
Kenyan Hellen
Obiri defended her title from an elite
women's field that race organizers described as "historically
fast." The 34-year-old crossed the finish line first
for the second consecutive year. Obiri, who finished with
an unofficial time of 2:22.37, broke away from a group
of almost a dozen women and showed her dominance in the
final stretch through Brookline and down Kenmore Square
to get the win.Sharon Lokedi finished in second and Edna
Kiplagat came home third.
Rainbow Cooper, a 22-year-old
from Great Britain, was the first in the women's wheelchair
division to cross the finish line with an unofficial time
of 1:35:11 in just her second Boston Marathon.
Marcel Hug did
it again.
The "Silver Bullet," nicknamed
for his trademark silver helmet, broke his own course
record to defend his Boston Marathon title in the men's
wheelchair division with an unofficial time of 1:15:32.
The win marks his seventh Patriots' Day victory.
Hug broke the course record by a minute
during his 2023 win and shaved off another 30 seconds
Monday.
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