Boston Marathon 2025 Results: Lokedi sets course record, Korir joins' brother as winner; Mantz scares U.S. record.
Kenyan Sharon Lokedi won the Boston Marathon in the fastest women’s time in race history, while Kenyan John Korir took the men’s race despite his bib coming off after falling at the start.
Lokedi, runner-up in 2024, pulled away from two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri in the last mile. She clocked 2 hours, 17 minutes, 22 seconds, smashing the course record of 2:19:59 set by Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba in 2014.
Obiri, who crossed 19 seconds behind, was bidding to become the first woman to three-peat in Boston since Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia from 1997-99.
Korir, the 2024 Chicago Marathon winner, ran 2:04:45, the second-fastest men’s winning time in Boston history (dating to 1897) behind Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai’s 2:03:03 in 2011. His older brother, Wesley, won Boston in 2012 and embraced him after the race.
Korir pulled his race bib out of his shorts shortly before the crossing the Boylston Street finish line. Korir had fallen at the start in Hopkinton two hours earlier, likely causing the bib to come off the front of his singlet.
Alphonce Simbu of Tanzania was runner-up, 19 seconds behind, followed by Kenyan Cybrian Kotut in the same time.
Olympic Trials winner Conner Mantz was fourth, just four seconds shy of his first major marathon podium. Mantz’s time — 2:05:08 — is the second-fastest marathon ever run by an American behind Ryan Hall’s 2:04:58 from Boston in 2011. The Boston course is not record-eligible as it is point-to-point and net downhill.
The last U.S. male runner to make a major podium was Galen Rupp in Chicago in 2021.
Jess McClain was the top American woman, finishing off an incredible run for seventh place in 2:22:43 — also a personal best of three minutes — while Annie Frisbie, an unexpected contender for the top American spot, was just behind in 2:23:21 for eighth.
The next major marathon is the London Marathon this Sunday, featuring two-time Olympic gold medalist Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya.
A total of 128 countries were represented at the 129th edition of the 26.2-mile event, which started in Hopkinton, Mass., wound through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton and Brookline and ended on Boylston Street in downtown Boston.
Wheelchair Races
Earlier in the day, Marcel Hug continued his dominance of the men’s wheelchair division, winning his eighth title — tied for the second-most in any division in Boston Marathon history — by more than four minutes over American Daniel Romanchuk.
Susannah Scaroni won her second Boston Marathon with an extremely bold move through the Newton Hills, putting a gap on an incredibly stacked field that her competitors couldn’t respond to. Scaroni took her second win in 1:35:20, more than six minutes faster than her first win in 2023, to become the sixth American woman to win multiple wheelchair titles.
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