Kenyan duo Sharon Lokedi and John Kipkosgei Korir notched up their second US-based World Marathon Majors victories, winning at the Boston Marathon – a World Athletics Platinum Label road race – on Monday (21).
Lokedi won in 2:17:22, taking two minutes and 37 seconds off the course record that had stood for 11 years. Hellen Obiri, the winner in Boston for the past two years, was second in 2:17:41 while Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw was third in 2:18:06.
