The Olympic marathon bronze medallist is hoping to safe a hat-trick of consecutive wins in Boston
Hellen Obiri is gunning for a 3rd consecutive title at this 12 months’s Boston Marathon however shall be up towards fierce competitors.
The double world 5000m champion, who additionally secured the bronze medal in final summer time’s Olympic marathon, has clocked 2:21:38 – her present private greatest – and a pair of:22:27 in her two wins within the US metropolis.
Obiri’s victory in Boston two years in the past got here in simply her second ever race over 26.2 miles – the Kenyan’s debut was the 2022 New York Marathon – and she or he beat Amane Beriso by simply 12 seconds.
In final 12 months’s version, Obiri noticed off compatriot Sharon Lokedi by solely eight seconds in a equally pulsating ending.
Hellen Obiri (Getty)
Obiri’s marathon report is critically spectacular and since ending sixth in New York three years in the past she has by no means did not get on the rostrum.
Solely 4 girls have received three consecutive Boston Marathon titles – Bobbi Gibb, Sara Mae Berman, Uta Pippig, and Fatuma Roba – so Obiri can also be up towards historical past.
Her greatest challengers for the 2025 version of the occasion will possible come from Ethiopia.
Beriso, who’s the reining world marathon champion and almost beat Obiri in Boston in 2023, has the quickest time on this 12 months’s area with 2:14:58.
Amane Beriso, Gotytom Gebreslase, Calli Hauger-Thackery (Nice Run)
The Ethiopian recorded that mark on the 2022 Valencia Marathon and is at the moment fifth on the all-time listing.
Compatriot Yalemzerf Yehualaw received the 2022 London Marathon with a private greatest of two:17:23 and also will be one to look at.
Des Linden, who’s the 2018 Boston Marathon champion, makes her twelfth look on the occasion and headlines the quickest ever US girls’s contingent assembled in Boston, together with 14 athletes with sub-2:26 private bests.
The main British problem comes from Calli Hauger-Thackery, who’s second on the UK marathon all-time listing behind Paula Radcliffe.
Sisay Lemma (David Hicks)
Sisay Lemma the standout title in males’s area
Sisay Lemma shall be aiming to retain his crown in Boston however the problem shall be vital, with 5 of the highest seven finishers from final 12 months returning.
The Ethiopian boasts a private greatest of two:01:48 from Valencia two years in the past, which ranks him fourth on the marathon all-time listing.
His victory finally 12 months’s Boston Marathon was equally as unbelievable, with Lemma triumphing by 41 seconds on the undulating course.
Lemma, who missed the Olympics attributable to damage, noticed his substitute Tamirat Tola safe the gold medal in Paris.
There’s little question then that Lemma shall be fired up for Boston however profitable it won’t be simple.
Evans Chebet (Getty)
Evans Chebet, a double winner of the occasion, shall be eager to enhance on his third place end finally 12 months’s version and is subsequently prone to be one of many Ethiopian’s greatest challengers in Boston.
Conner Mantz and Clayton Younger, who positioned eighth and ninth within the Olympic marathon respectively, lead the American cost.
Final 12 months’s greatest US finisher CJ Albertson – positioned seventh total – is again in Boston as soon as once more.
Zach Panning, Nathan Martin, Reed Fischer and Colin Bennie – all of whom completed within the prime ten on the US Olympic marathon trials – are additionally entered within the occasion.
Marcel Hug (Getty)
Marcel Hug and Eden Rainbow-Cooper goal to retain wheelchair crowns
Marcel Hug is as soon as once more the person to beat within the wheelchair division on the Boston Marathon.
The “Swiss Silver Bullet” earned his seventh title in a course report of 1:15:33 final 12 months.
Rainbow-Cooper additionally grew to become the primary British girl to win the Boston Marathon because the race’s inception, ending a minute and 30 seconds forward of the competitors with 1:35:11.
This 12 months’s version will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bob Corridor’s pioneering 1975 end, when the Massachusetts native grew to become the primary official wheelchair finisher in race historical past.
Within the 5 many years since, greater than 1880 wheelchair athletes have accomplished the race.
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