Geoffry Mutai Runs Fastest Marathon Ever At Boston Marathon
April 19th, 2011 | by |
Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds – a record time for the 26.2-mile distance.
Because Monday’s race had a strong tailwind on a downhill course, Mutai’s run is not recognized by track’s international governing body as a record.
Mutai was almost three minutes better than the course record set last year by Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot.
Caroline Kilel won the women’s race to complete the Kenyan sweep, outsprinting American Desiree Davila to win by two seconds, in 2:22:36. Davila led as late as the final stretch on Boylston Street and ran the fastest time ever for a U.S. woman, five seconds faster than Joan Benoit finished to win in 1983.
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