Boston – Sharon Loedi broke the record of the Boston Marathon course, and his partner Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as champion of the race on Monday when the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the revolutionary war.
Lakedi out a twice Hellen Obiri defender during the last mile a year after losing a sprint on Boylston Street in one of the closest results in the history of the race. Lokedi ended up in an unofficial 2 hours, 17 minutes, 22 seconds, 19 seconds ahead of Obiri and more than 2 1/2 minutes faster than the best of Boston previous.
Six months after winning Chicago, Korir ended at 2:04:45, the second time winning faster in the history of the race when the runners took advantage of the perfect climate of the marathon to conquer the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to the Coley Square de Boston.
After crossing the line, Korir was received by his older brother, Boston winner 2012, Wesley Korir. Although the race has been won by a couple of unrelated John Kelleys and two different Robert Cheruiyots, the Korirs are the first brothers, or relatives of any kind, to win the oldest and most prestigious annual marathon in the world.
Conner Mantz de Provo, Utah, finished fourth after losing a three -way sprint until the end with Alphonce Felix Simbu by Tanzania and Cybrian Kotut from Kenya. Sinbu was second and Kotut was third.
Korir ran without his bib was shown, taking him out of his stockings while running down Boylston Street.
Reenactors on horseback, accompanied by a life and drum playing “Yankee Doodle”, helped begin the festivities and add some lightness when Paul Revere’s horse was scared by the finish line in the street in the street and stopped. The actor who portrays the colonial silversmith and Patriot had to jump and walk the last steps himself while the little early crowd laughed and applauded.
After reading a proclamation, Revere gently threw the rest of the road before traveling to more ceremonies that commemorate the midnight trip on April 19, 1775, which warned the settlers in Lexington and Concord that the British were on the fly.
Marcel Hug, from Switzerland, did not have such problems to complete the course, approaching Copley Square at 1:21:34 for his eighth Boston wheelchair title. He beat the two -time winner Daniel Romanchuk for more than four minutes in the 50th anniversary of the pioneer thrust of Bob Hall To add a wheelchair division to the race.
“It means a lot to win this year, 50 years of wheelchairs in Boston,” said Hug. “For me, it will take some time to realize what it means, eight times victories. It is such an incredible number.”
Susannah Scaroni of the United States won the female wheelchair race per second time, ending at 1:35:20. His victory guaranteed that the “star banner” would play in Boylston Street in Copley Square on patriotic day, the state vacations that commemorates the first shots of the revolutionary war 250 years ago on Saturday.
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Associated Press Jennifer McDermott writer in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, contributed to this story.
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