{"id":175721,"date":"2025-04-21T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/lokedi-wins-boston-marathon-in-record-time-as-korir-joins-brother-as-mens-champion\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:42:53","slug":"lokedi-wins-boston-marathon-in-record-time-as-korir-joins-brother-as-mens-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/lokedi-wins-boston-marathon-in-record-time-as-korir-joins-brother-as-mens-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lokedi wins Boston Marathon in record time as Korir joins brother as men\u2019s champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon<\/a> course record, and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday.<\/p>\n

Lokedi outran two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri over the final mile a year after losing a sprint down Boylston Street<\/a> to the same athlete in one of the closest finishes in race history. Lokedi finished in an unofficial 2hr 17min 22sec \u2013 19 seconds ahead of Obiri and more than two minutes faster than the previous Boston best.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s race, six months after winning Chicago, Korir finished in 2:04:45 \u2013 the second-fastest winning time in race history as the runners took advantage of perfect marathon weather to conquer the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Copley Square.<\/p>\n

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After crossing the line, Korir was greeted by his older brother, 2012 Boston<\/a> winner Wesley Korir. Although the race has been won by a pair of unrelated John Kelleys and two different Robert Cheruiyots, the Korirs are the first brothers \u2013 or relatives of any kind \u2013 to win the world\u2019s oldest annual marathon. Korir ran without his bib showing, pulling it out of his running tights as he sprinted down Boylston Street.<\/p>\n

American Conner Mantz<\/a> finished fourth after losing a three-way sprint with Alphonce Felix Simbu of Tanzania and Cybrian Kotut of Kenya. Simbu was second and Kotut was third.<\/p>\n

The race celebrated the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War. Reenactors on horseback, accompanied by a fife and drum playing Yankee Doodle, helped start the festivities and add a bit of levity when the horse carrying an actor portraying Paul Revere was spooked near the finish line. The actor had to hop off and walk the last few steps himself as the crowd laughed and clapped.<\/p>\n

Marcel Hug of Switzerland had no such trouble completing the course, surging into Copley Square in 1:21:34 for his eighth Boston wheelchair title. He beat two-time winner Daniel Romanchuk by more than four minutes in the 50th anniversary of Bob Hall\u2019s pioneering push to add a wheelchair division to the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot to win this year, 50 years of wheelchairs in Boston,\u201d Hug said. \u201cFor me, it will take some time to realize what it means, eight times wins. It\u2019s such an incredible number.\u201d<\/p>\n

Susannah Scaroni of the United States won the women\u2019s wheelchair race for the second time, finishing in 1:35:20. Her victory guaranteed that the Star-Spangled Banner would play on Patriots\u2019 Day, the state holiday that commemorates the first shots of the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon course record, and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday. Lokedi outran two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri over the final mile a year after losing a sprint down Boylston Street to the same athlete in one of the closest finishes in race history. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}