Who are competing? Evans Chebet celebrates after winning the Boston Marathon.ĭefending champion Evans Chebet will be the other highlight athlete, with of course, all eyes now on Eliud. I don’t expect an easy outing but I will be there to compete and compete well.” “This will be a very tough race because there are many former champions. I just want to run a beautiful race and win,” Kipchoge said. This race will be won by whoever prepares and plans better. “I have prepared well for this and I trust in my methods. On his preparation for the race, Kipchoge says he is ready to run a beautiful race. I want to be together with them at this time,” he told Capital Sport.

I want to be there to show the world that sports brings people together and enhances peace. “I want to be there with the people when they commemorate this anniversary. But he says, Boston will be special not only because he will be chasing history there, but also because of the 10 th anniversary of the 2013 bombing. Kipchoge is a man of focus and one who doesn’t say much when he has his full concentration on.

It will start almost half an hour plus after the wheelchair men and women’s race as well as the handcycle events.Įliud Kipchoge during the interview with Capital Sports at his Eldoret home. The race guns off at 9:37am ET, which is 4:37pm East African Time. What makes it even more difficult is the course, which is mostly made up of hilly terrain. Here is what you should know before the race.īoston is the oldest marathon in the world and is run without pacemakers. He will line up in Boston, the chase of history on his shoulders and the whole world watching with bated breathe as the Olympic Champion tries to conquer the hills of Boston. He has won London four times, Berlin three times including two world records, Chicago and Tokyo and now has Boston and New York to go. Kipchoge, arguably the greatest ever marathoner in the world, has already won four.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 17 – Marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge will be chasing another piece of history on Monday evening when he lines up on the streets of Boston, seeking to win his fifth major marathon, in his chase for a historic sweep of all the six majors in the world.

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