Gabriel Geay finished second as Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s greatest marathoner running his first Boston Marathon, was unable to keep up. Marcel Hug and Susannah Scaroni dominated the wheelchair races.
The men’s champion, Evans Chebet, averaged a mile in 4 minutes 48 seconds — giving hope to anyone on the Tumbleator who could not match Eliud Kipchoge’s world-record pace.
The fastest finishers of the Boston Marathon this year will share in more than $1 million in prize money, with bonuses awarded to the winners who set course records in the open and wheelchair divisions.