John Korir of Kenya won the Boston Marathon for the second straight time, finishing at 2:01:52 and setting a new course record. That's 26.2 consecutive 4-minute, 37-second miles (my personal best for just one single mile is a little over six minutes, and even that was back in 1988). Fellow Kenyan Sharon Lokedi, the defending women's winner, also repeated as champion with a time of 2:18:51.

Korir's brother, Wesley, won the race in 2012. Kenyan runners have won the men's division 26 times since 1988; West African runners have won in 34 of those 37 years (the race was cancelled in 2020 because of the covids). The last time the United States won the race was 2014 when Meb Keflezighi won, and he was an Ethiopian refugee.    

Kenyan and Ethiopian runners have won the women's division 26 times since 1997. The last U.S. woman to win was California's Desiree Linden in 2018.   

Marcel Hug of Switzerland, nicknamed "The Silver Bullet," won the men's wheelchair division for the fourth straight time and ninth time overall, with a time of 1:16:06, missing his own course record by 33 seconds. That's an average speed of 21 mph. He is now just one win short of Ernst Van Dyk's all-category record of 10. Eden Rainbow-Cooper of Britain won the women's wheelchair division, her second Boston win, in 1:30:51.