Sharon Lokedi breaks Boston Marathon course record; John Korir joins brother as Boston winner

Jimmy Golen · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 21, 2025 12:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon people record, and chap Kenyan John Korir joined his member arsenic a contention champion connected Monday arsenic the metropolis celebrated the 250th day of the commencement of the Revolutionary War.

Lokedi outran two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri implicit the last mile a twelvemonth aft losing a sprint down Boylston Street to her successful 1 of the closest finishes successful contention history. Lokedi finished successful an unofficial two hours 17 minutes 22 seconds — 19 seconds up of Obiri and much than two-and-a-half minutes faster than the erstwhile Boston best.

Six months aft winning Chicago, Korir finished successful 2:04:45 — the second-fastest winning clip successful contention past arsenic the runners took vantage of cleanable marathon upwind to conquer the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Boston's Copley Square.

After crossing the line, Korir was greeted by his older brother, 2012 Boston victor Wesley Korir. Although the contention has been won by a brace of unrelated John Kelleys and 2 antithetic Robert Cheruiyots, the Korirs are the archetypal brothers — oregon relatives of immoderate benignant — to triumph the world's oldest and astir prestigious yearly marathon.

Conner Mantz of Provo, Utah, finished 4th aft losing a three-way sprint to the decorativeness with Alphonce Felix Simbu of Tanzania and Cybrian Kotut of Kenya. Simbu was 2nd and Kotut was third.

Calgary's Rory Linkletter finished sixth with a idiosyncratic champion of 2:07:02.

Korir ran without his bib showing, pulling it retired of his moving tights arsenic helium sprinted down Boylston Street.

Reenactors connected horseback, accompanied by a fife and drum playing "Yankee Doodle," helped commencement the festivities and adhd a spot of levity erstwhile Paul Revere's equine was spooked by the decorativeness enactment decal connected the thoroughfare and stopped. The histrion portraying the assemblage silversmith and patriot had to hop disconnected and locomotion the past fewer steps himself arsenic the tiny aboriginal assemblage laughed and clapped.

After speechmaking a proclamation, Revere mildly tugged the equine the remainder of the mode earlier riding disconnected to much ceremonies commemorating the midnight thrust connected April 19, 1775, that warned the colonists successful Lexington and Concord that the British were connected the march.

Marcel Hug of Switzerland had nary specified occupation completing the course, zooming into Copley Square successful 1:21:34 for his eighth Boston wheelchair title. He bushed two-time victor Daniel Romanchuk by much than 4 minutes successful the 50th day of Bob Hall's pioneering propulsion to adhd a wheelchair part to the race.

"It means a batch to triumph this year, 50 years of wheelchairs successful Boston," Hug said. "For me, it volition instrumentality immoderate clip to recognize what it means, 8 times wins. It's specified an unthinkable number."

Susannah Scaroni of the United States won the women's wheelchair contention for the 2nd time, finishing successful 1:35:20. Her triumph guaranteed that the "Star-Spangled Banner" would play connected Boylston Street successful Copley Square connected Patriots' Day, the authorities vacation that commemorates the archetypal shots of the Revolutionary War 250 years agone Saturday.