That makes it a more technical course compared to other marathons, though runners can enjoy the roughly 200 feet of net descent in the final five miles. The course is net downhill but does include four notable climbs in the second half, culminating with the notorious Heartbreak Hill at the 20-mile mark. Last year’s world championship medalists Gotytom Gebreslase, also from Ethiopia, and Lonah Salpeter from Israel form part of the star-studded field, while Kenya’s two-time Olympic medalist Hellen Obiri will be competing in her second ever marathon after placing sixth in New York in November.Īmong the American women in the elite field, Sara Hall, competing in Boston for the second time, owns the fastest time of 2:20:32.Ĭlose to 30,000 athletes from more than 100 countries will take part in this year’s Boston Marathon. The women’s elite race will be headlined by three former Boston winners: home favorite Des Linden, veteran Kenyan Edna Kiplagat and Ethiopia’s 2016 champion Atsede Bayisa. In 2019, he ran 1:59:40 in Vienna, Austria, as part of a challenge specifically engineered to optimize performance over the marathon distance.

“It’s an uphill and tough course over 40 kilometers.”Īs well as owning the official world record, Kipchoge is also the first person to break the two-hour barrier in the marathon. Further information on the WLTP and NEDC measurement procedures is also available at bmw.de/wltp.įor further details of the official fuel consumption figures and official specific CO2 emissions of new cars, please refer to the following web site is the right time to train on the course which we have nicknamed ‘Boston’ here in Kenya,” he told Daily Nation.

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