There was a shock winner within the males’s race on the 2023 Boston Marathon on Monday.
However maybe the larger shock was the person who didn’t win.
As Evans Chebet of Kenya pulled away to win in Boston for the second consecutive 12 months, reigning world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge was languishing greater than 3 minutes behind – a shocking end result, if solely as a result of the 38-year-old has been so dominant for therefore lengthy.
Chebet crossed the road in 2 hours, 5 minutes and 54 seconds – virtually a full minute quicker than his profitable time on the identical course a 12 months in the past. He turns into the primary back-to-back winner since Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot gained three in a row from 2006 to 2008.
However Kipchoge, the one man to run a marathon distance in below two hours, was the story. He completed sixth in his first Boston Marathon with a time of two:09:23.
It’s simply his third loss in 20 profession marathons.
The heavy favourite coming into Monday, Kipchoge set the tempo from the beginning and was entrance and middle within the lead pack for almost all of the race. Separation got here across the 19-mile mark, within the notoriously hilly part close to Newton, Massachusetts.
