Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia set a blistering pace and held on to win the Boston Marathon on Monday, to finish in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 17 seconds -- the 10th-fastest time in the race's 128-year history.
BOSTON -- Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia set a blistering pace and held on to win the Boston Marathon on Monday, running alone through most of the course to finish in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 17 seconds -- the 10th-fastest time in the race's 128-year history.
Lemma ran the first half in 60:19 -- 99 seconds faster than Geoffrey Mutai's course-record pace in 2011, when he finished in 2:03:02 -- the fastest marathon in history to that point. Fellow Ethiopian Mohamed Esa closed the gap through the last few miles, finishing second by 41 seconds; two-time defending champion Evans Chebet was third.
Sunny skies and minimal wind greeted the runners, with temperatures that rose into the 60s in late morning. As the field went through Natick, the fourth of eight cities and towns on the route, athletes splashed water on themselves to cool off., the grand marshal, said before climbing into an electric car that would carry him along the course."The city of Boston always comes out to support, no matter the event. The weather is perfection, the energy is popping.
The start line was painted to say"100 years in Hopkinton," commemorating the 1924 move from Ashland to Hopkinton to conform to the official Olympic marathon distance. The announcer welcomed the gathering crowds to the"sleepy little town of Hopkinton, 364 days of the year."
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