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Lelisa Desisa, Caroline Rotich win Boston Marathon; Meb Keflezighi eighth

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Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa captured his second Boston Marathon, while Kenyan Caroline Rotich won her first major marathon on Monday.

The top U.S. finishers were Olympians Desi Linden and Shalane Flanagan (sixth) in the women’s race. In the men’s, Dathan Ritzenhein was seventh, and the 2014 champion Meb Keflezighi was eighth.

Desisa, who took the 2013 Boston Marathon before twin bombings rocked the world’s oldest annual 26.2-mile race later that day, pulled away from countryman Yemane Tsegay in the final two miles. Desisa’s unofficial time was 2:09:17.