Marathon world-record holder Dennis Kimetto will try to rekindle his career at the Boston Marathon on April 17.
Kimetto set the 26.2-mile world record at the 2014 Berlin Marathon, clocking 2:02:57.
The Kenyan has run four marathons since, failing to finish two of them and slowing to 2:05:50 at the 2015 London Marathon and 2:11:44 and the 2016 London Marathon.
Kimetto will face a field in Boston that includes fellow Kenyans Emmanuel Mutai (joint fourth-fastest marathoner of all time at 2:03:13 and Patrick Makau (sixth-fastest at 2:03:38) and Ethiopian Lemi Berhanu Hayle, who won last year’s Boston Marathon.