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John Korir defended his males’s title on the 2026 Boston Marathon because the Kenyan shattered the course document to turn into solely the fifth man to dip below two hours and two minutes over the gap.
Korir was second on the half-way stage in 1:01:50, seven seconds behind Lemi Berhanu, however the defending champion made a push for the lead after 20 miles and grabbed management of the elite males’s race, surging away from his rivals to finally clock a time of 02:01:52 – greater than a minute higher than the earlier greatest in Boston.
Earlier, Nice Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper gained the ladies’s wheelchair race in 1:30:51, beating out Catherine Debrunner by over two minutes so as to add a second title to her breakthrough success in 2024. The nice Marcel Hug, in the meantime, gained the lads’s wheelchair race, dominating the sector to win by greater than six minutes in 1:16:06 in a ninth triumph within the metropolis.
Listed here are the outcomes for the elite races on the one hundred and thirtieth version of the Boston Marathon:
Elite males’s race
1. John Korir 2:01:52
2. Alphonce Simbu 2:02:47
3. Benson Kipruto 2:02:50
4. Hailemaryam Kiros 2:03:42
5. Zouhair Talbi 2:03:45
6 Tebello Ramakongoana 2:04:14
7 Charles Hicks 2:04:35
8 Richard Ringer 2:04:47
9 Alex Masai 2:05:32
10 Milkesa Mengesha 2:05:35
Elite girls’s race (TBC)
Elite males’s wheelchair race
1. Hug, Marcel 1:03:05
2. Romanchuk, Daniel 1:09:03
3. Plat, Jetze 1:10:00
4. Xingchuan, Luo 1:10:31
5. Watanabe, Sho 01:11:06
6. Smith, Johnboy 1:11:53
7. Hokinoue, Kota 1:12:05
8. Jimenez-Vergara, Miguel 1:13:11
9. Schipper, Geert 1:13:32
10. Weir, David 1:14:24
Elite girls’s wheelchair race
1. Rainbow-Cooper, Eden 51:21
2. Debrunner, Catherine 00:52:13
3. Mcfadden, Tatyana 00:54:30
4. Schär, Manuela 00:55:09
5. De Souza, Vanessa 00:56:36
6. De Rozario, Madison 00:56:36
7. Eachus, Patricia 00:56:37
8. Perry, Emelia 00:59:37
9. Elshorbagy, Hoda 01:00:08
10. Dawes, Christie 01:00:25
