{"id":8186,"date":"2023-04-17T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boston-marathon-evans-chebet-retains-mens-title-hellen-obiri-wins-womens-race\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:26:11","slug":"boston-marathon-evans-chebet-retains-mens-title-hellen-obiri-wins-womens-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boston-marathon-evans-chebet-retains-mens-title-hellen-obiri-wins-womens-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Marathon: Evans Chebet retains men’s title & Hellen Obiri wins women’s race"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Evans Chebet (left) has won three marathons while Hellen Obiri’s triumph in Boston is her first marathon win<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kenya’s Evans Chebet successfully defended his Boston Marathon title – with two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge back in sixth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chebet won in two hours five minutes and 54 seconds, with compatriot Kipchoge finishing 3:29 behind him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It is only Kipchoge’s third defeat in his previous 18 marathons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenya’s Hellen Obiri, competing in just her second race over the marathon distance, won the women’s race in 2:21.38.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chebet is just the sixth man in history to retain the Boston title and the first since 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n

Switzerland’s Marcel Hugh won his sixth Boston title in the men’s wheelchair race while home hope Susannah Scaroni won the women’s event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tributes were paid in the city on Sunday to mark 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured 280.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Watch<\/span><\/span>\"Watch<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Evans Chebet (left) has won three marathons while Hellen Obiri’s triumph in Boston is her first marathon win Kenya’s Evans Chebet successfully defended his Boston Marathon title – with two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge back in sixth. Chebet won in two hours five minutes and 54 seconds, with compatriot Kipchoge finishing 3:29 behind him. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8188,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions\/8188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}