Boston Marathon ladies’s division winner Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya, left, and males’s winner Evans Chebet, of Kenya, pose on the end line Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston.
BOSTON (AP) — Peres Jepchirchir celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Marathon ladies’s division by successful a see-saw dash down Boylston Street on Monday because the race returned to its conventional Patriots’ Day spot within the schedule for the primary time because the begin of the coronavirus pandemic.
Running shoulder to shoulder for many of the course, the reigning Olympic champion and Ethiopia’s Ababel Yeshaneh traded locations eight instances within the last mile, with Jepchirchir pulling forward for good within the last 385 yards. The Kenyan completed in 2 hours, 21 minutes, 1 seconds, 4 seconds forward.
Kenya’s Evans Chebet pulled away with about 4 miles to go to win the boys’s race in 2:06:51, 30 seconds forward of Gabriel Geay of Tanzania. Defending champion Benson Kipruto was third.
American Daniel Romanchuk received his second profession males’s wheelchair title in 1:26:58. Switzerland’s Manuela Schar received her second straight Boston crown and fourth total, ending in 1:41:08.
Sharing a weekend with the Red Sox dwelling opener — the town’s different sporting ceremony of spring — greater than 28,000 runners returned to the streets from Hopkinton to Copley Square six months after a smaller and socially distanced occasion that was the one fall race in its 126-year historical past.
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Fans waved Ukrainian flags in help of the few dozen runners whose 26.2-mile run from Hopkinton to Copley Square was the best a part of their journey. Athletes from Russia and Belarus have been disinvited in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
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Photos: Boston Marathon returns to April spot on calendar
Boston Marathon ladies’s division winner Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, left, and males’s winner Evans Chebet, of Kenya, pose on the end line Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Evans Chebet, of Kenya, hits the tape to win the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Evans Chebet, of Kenya, breaks the tape to win the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Daniel Romanchuk, of the United States, breaks the tape to win the boys’s wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Manuela Schar, of Switzerland, hits the tape to win the ladies’s wheelchair division of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Manuela Schar, of Switzerland, left, and Daniel Romanchuck, of the United States, maintain the trophy after successful the boys’s and girls’s wheelchair divisions of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, heart, heads out in the midst of the elite ladies’s pack at the beginning of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, reacts after successful the ladies’s division of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, breaks the tape to win the ladies’s division of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
The elite ladies break from the beginning line of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
Margaux, a State Police Ok-9, watches as runners go throughout the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
Scott Fauble, of the United States, crosses the end line of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. Fauble, the highest American runner, completed seventh. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Val Rogosheske, who raced within the inaugural ladies’s division in 1972, stands on the beginning line of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Hopkinton, Mass. Rogosheske will run the race along with her two daughters 50 years after working her first Boston marathon. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet, proper, reacts as she is launched within the para division with Shalane Flanagan, left, as her help runner on the beginning line of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
The elite males break from the beginning line of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray prepares to fireside the gun for the hand cycle and duo individuals on the beginning line of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
Evans Chebet, of Kenya, is guided in direction of the end line to win the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Evans Chebet, of Kenya, poses with the trophy after successful the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, proper, places a wreath on the top of ladies’s division winner Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, on the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Nell Rojas of Boulder, Colorado celebrates after being the primary American ladies to cross the end line within the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Evans Chebet, of Kenya, runs within the last mile on his technique to successful the boys’s division of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, covers her face after successful the ladies’s division of win the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Runners within the males’s division, entrance row from the left, Albert Korir, of Kenya, Elkanah Kibet, of Colorado Springs, Colo., Bethwell Yegon, of Kenya, and Geoffrey Kamworor, of Kenya, lead a bunch up Heartbreak Hill within the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Evans Chebet, of Kenya, holds the trophy after successful the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
While wearing a Ukraine shirt, a runner holds a Ukraine and American flag whereas approaching the end line of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Runners method the end line of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Evans Chebet, of Kenya, takes a drink whereas main the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. Chebet went on to win the boys’s division of the race. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, left, and Ababel Yeshaneh, of Ethiopia, clasp every others arms throughout the 126th Boston Marathon in Newton, Mass., Monday, April 18, 2022. Jepchirchir received the ladies’s division and Yeshaneh completed second. At proper is Joyciline Jeopkosgei, of Kenya. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)
