Sports | Boston Marathon Marathon Winner Started Fast, Never Let Up Ethiopia's Sisay Lemma wins men's race; Kenya's Hellen Obiri is top woman By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Apr 15, 2024 12:29 PM CDT Copied Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia celebrates winning the Boston Marathon Monday, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Another Boston Marathon is in the books, and the AP has results: Men's race: Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia set a blistering pace and held on to win 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. Fellow Ethiopian Mohamed Esa closed the gap through the last few miles, finishing second by 41 seconds; two-time defending champion Evans Chebet of Kenya was third. "I decided that I wanted to start fast early," said Lemma, whose victory in London in 2021 was his only other major marathon victory. "I kept the pace and I won." Women's race: Hellen Obiri defended her title in the women's race, outsprinting fellow Kenyan Sharon Lokedi down Boylston Street to win by eight seconds. Obiri is the first woman to win back-to-back Boston Marathons since 2005. On a day when sunshine and temperatures rising into the mid-60s left the runners reaching for water—to drink, and to dump over their heads—Obiri ran with an unusually large lead pack of 15 through Brookline before breaking away. Wheelchair: Switzerland's Marcel Hug righted himself after crashing into a barrier when he took a turn too fast and still coasted to a course record in the men's wheelchair race. It was his seventh Boston win and his 14th straight major marathon victory. Hug finished in 1:15:33, winning by 5:04 and breaking his previous course record by 1:33. Britain's Eden Rainbow-Cooper, 22, won the women's wheelchair race in 1:35:11 for her first major marathon victory; she is the third-youngest woman to win the Boston wheelchair race. Read These Next Rubio says the fate of Iran's conversion facility is what matters. Her blood isn't compatible with anyone else's. Some of the most explosive Diddy allegations are dropped. NJ lifeguard survives after being impaled by an umbrella. Report an error