The race went out sedately, however completed something however, with Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi smashing the course document on the Boston Marathon, operating a blistering 2:17:22, taking her second world main marathon victory and demoralizing her rival, Hellen Obiri, who was gunning for her third consecutive win.
“I can’t imagine it, I’m so excited,” Lokedi mentioned after the race. She mentioned she was amazed at how briskly she and the opposite ladies went by way of the half (68 minutes and alter), and knew the course document was attainable for whoever received.
Little doubt Lokedi was decided to not repeat final yr’s expertise, the place she hung with Obiri till nearly the tip, solely to lose narrowly. This yr their roles have been reversed, with Lokedi placing area between herself and Obiri within the remaining few kilometres, sufficient that Obiri was unable to shut the hole, taking second, in 2:17:41. That is her third consecutive podium in Boston. Former 10K world document holder Yalemzerf Yehualaw of Ethiopia completed third, in 2:18:06. All three podium finishers ran underneath the earlier course document of two:19:59, set by Ethiopia’s Buzunesh Deba in 2014.
How the race performed out
Obiri and the opposite leaders hung again initially, with the American ladies main, together with Canada’s Rachel Hannah (who completed thirtieth); they went by way of the primary mile in a modest 5:46. But it surely wasn’t lengthy earlier than the actual leaders confirmed their energy, and Obiri fashioned a lead pack with 4 different ladies. Across the 10-mile mark, Amane Beriso threw in a surge, and by 12 miles, the lead pack was 5 ladies robust: Beriso, Obiri, 2022 London Marathon winner Yehualaw, 2022 New York Metropolis Marathon winner Lokedi and Kenya’s Irene Cheptai, operating effectively underneath course document tempo. They went by way of the half in 68 minutes, 46 seconds.
COURSE RECORD 👏
🇰🇪’s Sharon Lokedi holds off Hellen Obiri and storms to 2:17:22 on the @bostonmarathon 🔥
That’s greater than 2️⃣ minutes sooner than the course document set in 2014 🤯 pic.twitter.com/8ordm7pKYx
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) April 21, 2025
Round 15 miles in, Lokedi and Cheptai fell off the lead pack, however Lokedi fought her approach again to rejoin them. There have been some exchanges of elbows and appears between the pair of Ethiopians and the pair of Kenyans. Whereas the digicam was on males’s champion John Korir, who received a decisive victory in 2:04:44, Beriso fell off the lead pack.
This was Lokedi’s second main marathon win; she received the 2022 New York Metropolis Marathon in her debut on the distance.
Toronto’s Kylee Raftis was the highest Canadian lady in the present day; Raftis completed twenty eighth (a step up from her Thirty sixth-place end in 2024), in 2:34:41, only one second forward of Rachel Hannah of Port Elgin, Ont.
Jess McClain was the highest U.S. lady on Monday, ending seventh, in 2:22:43. Emma Bates (final yr’s prime American lady) completed thirteenth, in 2:25:10, and Sara Corridor was 18th, in 2:26:32.
2018 champion Des Linden (who completed seventeenth on Monday, or fifth American, in 2:26:19) shocked the operating world earlier Monday when she introduced that this might be not simply her remaining Boston Marathon, however her remaining marathon as knowledgeable. Linden additionally completed second in 2011.
Girls’s prime 10
- Sharon Lokedi (KEN) 2:17:22
- Hellen Obiri (KEN) 2:17:41
- Yalemzerf Yehualaw (ETH) 2:18:06
- Irene Cheptai (KEN) 2:21:32
- Amane Beriso (ETH) 2:21:58
- Calli Thackery (UK) 2:22:38
- Jess McClain (USA) 2:22:43
- Annie Frisbie (USA) 2:23:21
- Stacy Ndiwa (KEN) 2:23:29
- Tsige Haileslase (ETH) 2:23:43
Scaroni wins wheelchair race
Susannah Scaroni of the U.S. received the ladies’s wheelchair race in 1:35:20; this was her seventh Boston Marathon, which she received in 2023, additionally. Scaroni took bronze within the T54 marathon on the Paris Olympics in 2024. Catherine Debrunner of Switzerland took second, in 1:37:26, and her compatriot, four-time Boston Marathon champion Manuela Schär, took third, in 1:39:18.
For our protection of the boys’s race, click on right here. For full outcomes of the 129th Boston Marathon, click on right here.