Boston Marathon

Boston Marathon winner John Korir, of Kenya, kisses the trophy while celebrating after the race, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Korir brothers hope a Kenyan school they fund will produce a Boston Marathon champion, like them

John Korir arrived in Hopkinton hoping to join his brother as a Boston Marathon champion. He left Boylston Street with plans to train a future winner.
April 22
Boston Marathon winner John Korir, of Kenya, kisses the trophy while celebrating after the race, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Kenya’s John Korir follows brother’s advice to men’s Boston Marathon title, place in history

April 21
Boston Red Sox's Walker Buehler delivers a pitch to a Chicago White Sox batter in the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Walker Buehler’s strong start carries Red Sox past White Sox 4-2 on Patriots’ Day

April 21
Susannah Scaroni, of the United States, breaks the tape to win the women's wheelchair division during the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Switzerland’s Hug gets 8th Boston Marathon wheelchair win, American Scaroni a 2nd in milestone year

April 21
Boston Marathon winner Sharon Lokedi high-fives spectators in front of Boston College in Newton, Mass. while in the lead group of runners Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/ Jennifer McDermott)

‘The runners are coming': Lokedi breaks Boston Marathon course record, John Korir takes men’s race

April 21

Bank of America to sponsor iconic Boston Marathon

The world’s oldest marathon is getting a new sponsor for the first time in 38 years, parting with an insurance firm that helped it grow dramatically after the race transitioned from amateur status. In 2024 Bank of America becomes the new sponsor. (March 27)

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A wave a runners set out from the start of the Boston Marathon, April 15, 2024, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Boston Marathon and city insist all are welcome. But some runners say politics will keep them home

April 19
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, left, places a wreath on Hellen Obiri, of Kenya, right, winner of the women's division of the Boston Marathon, during ceremonies, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Hellen Obiri claims back-to-back Boston Marathon titles, leading Kenyan women’s podium sweep

April 15, 2024
Marcel Hug of Switzerland, left, men's wheelchair division winner and Eden Rainbow Cooper, women's wheelchair division winner, pose with the trophy at the Boston Marathon finish line, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Hug earns 7th Boston Marathon wheelchair title and Rainbow-Cooper wins her 1st women’s crown

April 15, 2024
Sisay Lemma, of Ethiopia, celebrates while lying down after winning the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Ethiopia’s Sisay Lemma wins Boston Marathon in runaway. Kenya’s Hellen Obiri repeats in women’s race

April 15, 2024
FILE - Jonathon Hawkins, left, and Beth Millian, right, both from Austin, Texas, pose for a photo by the Boston Marathon start sign prior to the 115th running of the Boston Marathon, in Hopkinton, Mass., Monday, April 18, 2011. Once a year for the last 100 years, Hopkinton becomes the center of the running world, thanks to a quirk of geography and history that made it the starting line for the world's oldest and most prestigious annual marathon. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)

For Boston Marathon’s last 100 years, it all starts in Hopkinton

April 13, 2024

Boston Marathon field adds Americans who just missed at Olympic trials

March 14, 2024
Eliud Kipchoge, of Kenya, center, runs ahead of Andualem Belay, of Ethiopia, second from right, at the front of a group of elite men, along the course of the 127th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 17, 2023, in Framingham, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Kipchoge says leg injury foiled Boston Marathon attempt

April 18, 2023
Hellen Obiri, of Kenya, breaks the tape at the finish line to win the women's division of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 17, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Kenya’s Obiri breaks late to win women’s Boston Marathon

April 17, 2023

West Virginia father runs Boston marathon with daughter

April 15, 2023
FILE - Evans Chebet, of Kenya, hits the finish line to win the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. The Boston Marathon has agreed to a 10-year sponsorship deal with Bank of America that organizers hope will allow the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual 26.2-mile road race to grow over the next decade while maintaining its historic character. Financial terms of the deal announced Monday, March 27, 2023, were not disclosed. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)

Bank of America signs on as new Boston Marathon sponsor

March 27, 2023
FILE - Diana Kipyokei, of Kenya, holds a Boston Marathon championship trophy following a news conference, on Oct. 12, 2021, in Boston. Kenyan marathoner Diana Kipyokei has been banned for six years and stripped of her 2021 Boston Marathon title for doping and tampering. The Athletics Integrity Unit says Kipyokei’s urine sample after winning in Boston in October 2021 had traces of triamcinolone acetonide — an anti-inflammatory prohibited at races when an athlete does not have permission to use it as a medication. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Kipyokei gets 6-year doping ban, loses Boston Marathon title

December 20, 2022
FILE - Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge crosses the line to win the Berlin Marathon in Berlin on Sept. 25, 2022. Kipchoge will make his Boston Marathon debut in 2023 along with reigning women’s world champion Gotytom Gebreslase and six former Boston winners returning 10 years after two bombs exploded at the finish line.(AP Photo/Christoph Soeder, File)

Marathon record-holder Eliud Kipchoge to run in Boston

December 2, 2022
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe holds a press conference at the conclusion of the World Athletics meeting at the Italian National Olympic Committee, headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Kenya avoids track doping ban; Russia gets mixed news

November 30, 2022
FILE - Diana Kipyokei, of Kenya, holds a Boston Marathon championship trophy following a news conference, on Oct. 12, 2021, in Boston. Kipyokei was suspended on Friday Oct. 14, 2022 after testing positive for doping at the 2021 race she won and allegedly obstructing an investigation. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Boston Marathon winner Kipyokei suspended for doping

October 14, 2022
FILE - Runners cross the starting line of the 125th Boston Marathon, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021, in Hopkinton, Mass. Nonbinary athletes will be able to run in next year's Boston Marathon without having to qualify for the men's or women's divisions, race organizers announced Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Boston Marathon to welcome nonbinary athletes to 2023 race

September 13, 2022
A man carrying a picture of actor Will Smith runs behind Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, left, and Ababel Yeshaneh, of Ethiopia, during the 126th Boston Marathon in Natick, Mass, Monday, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)

Full field returns for Boston Marathon coming-out party

April 19, 2022
Igor Krytsak, of Kyiv, holds a Ukrainian flag, Sunday, April 17, 2022, while visiting the finish line of the Boston Marathon, in Boston. Krytsak planned to run the Boston Marathon after qualifying in London last year with a personal best 2 hours, 57 minutes, 33 seconds. After Russia invaded his homeland he could not leave the country without a special permit. Krytsak received permission to run in Boston for humanitarian purposes and arrived in the United States, Saturday, April 16. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP)

Runner’s Diary: Ukrainian runs Boston to help homeland

April 19, 2022

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April 19, 2022
While dressed in a Ukraine shirt, a runner holds a Ukraine and American flag while approaching the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

At Boston Marathon, Ukrainian runners show national pride

April 18, 2022
Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, left, and Ababel Yeshaneh, of Ethiopia, clasp each others arms during the 126th Boston Marathon in Newton, Mass., Monday, April 18, 2022. Jepchirchir won the women's division and Yeshaneh finished second. At right is Joyciline Jeopkosgei, of Kenya. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)

Olympic champ Jepchirchir wins 50th women’s Boston Marathon

April 18, 2022
Boston Red Sox's Rafael Devers, left, beats the tag from Minnesota Twins' Gio Urshela (15) at third base on a double by Xander Bogaerts during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Polanco HR, 4 RBIs; Twins beat Red Sox 8-3 on Patriots’ Day

April 18, 2022
Evans Chebet, of Kenya, hits the tape to win the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

Chebet leads 1st Kenyan sweep in Boston Marathon since 2012

April 18, 2022
Manuela Schar, of Switzerland, left, and Daniel Romanchuck, of the United States, hold the trophy after winning the men's and women's wheelchair divisions of the 126th Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

Romanchuk, Schar win Boston Marathon wheelchair titles

April 18, 2022
FILE - Runners cross the starting line of the 125th Boston Marathon, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021, in Hopkinton, Mass. The Boston Marathon returns, Monday, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Perfect spring weather greets Boston Marathon’s April return

April 17, 2022
FILE - Olavi Suomalainen of Finland, winner of the men's division of the Boston A.A. Marathon April 17, 1972, kisses Nina Kuscsik of Long Island, N.Y., winner of the women's division, at the trophy presentation April 18, 1972. As the 2022 Boston Marathon celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first official women’s race, the occasion will be marked by one of the strongest women’s fields ever. (AP Photo/File)

Boston Marathon marks 50th anniversary of welcoming women

April 16, 2022
In this image provided by Edwin Broersma, marathoner Jacky Hunt-Broersma runs her 80th consecutive marathon on March 27, 2022, near her home in Gilbert, Az. Hunt-Broersma lost her left leg below the knee to a rare form of cancer, but she hasn't let that stop her and is trying to cover the classic 26.2-mile marathon distance at least 102 times in 102 days, which would set a new world record. The Boston Marathon on April 18 is expected to be No. 92 in her streak. (Edwin Broersma via AP)

Jacky’s quest: 1 woman, 1 leg, 102 marathons in 102 days

April 15, 2022
FILE - Police officers stand watch as Boston Marathon runners race along the course, April 20, 2015, in Boston. The Boston Marathon returns to the traditional Patriots Day holiday, Monday, April 18, 2022, for the first time in three years, and runners and spectators should be prepared to encounter heavy security said Boston Police Superintendent Chief Gregory Long, during a news conference, Tuesday, April 12. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Security tight as Boston Marathon returns to Patriots Day

April 12, 2022

Boston Marathon excludes runners residing in Russia, Belarus

April 6, 2022

Boston Athletic Association’s Grilk stepping down as CEO

February 23, 2022
Women displays signs and cheer in front Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Mass., as a runner passes during the 125th Boston Marathon, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

‘22 Boston Marathon to have full, fully vaccinated field

November 3, 2021
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