2026 Boston Marathon – Live updates
All instances native to Boston.
12:06 – RESULT: Sharon Lokedi cruises to a 3rd Boston title
What a win for Lokedi! Who, like Korir, goes back-to-back in Beantown. She is overjoyed, pumping her arms overhead as she crosses the road in 2:18:51.
Loice Chemnung will end in second at 2:19:37 as Mary Ngugi-Cooper rounds out the highest three in 2:20:07.
Jess McClain is the highest American in fifth in 2:20:49.
Noon – Women with one mile to go
Awesome stuff from Lokedi! She was neck-and-neck with Hellen Obiri a yr in the past at this level, however she is on their own right here and soaking within the roars from the well-known Boston followers as she heads in direction of the end line on Boylston Street.
11:55 – John Korir: “It was in my mind to run the course record”
John Korir is talking with ESPN simply off the end line: “It was in my mind to run the course record,” he confirms. “I’ve fulfilled my wishes.”
He addresses having fallen close to the beginning line final yr – solely to bounce again and win. There have been no such troubles in 2026. “This year, I had no problems from the start to the finish,” he says, smiling. “I enjoyed this year more than last year.”
Asked about going sub-two hours on a World Marathon Major course, he shakes his head: “I’m not thinking about [that].”
11:52 – Women at Mile 23: Lokedi now clearly out entrance
This seems like Lokedi’s race now. She is 12 seconds away from Chemnung in second place. Her stride and physique language look tremendous sturdy as she makes her method towards the 24-mile marker.
She’s peeled off her arm sleeves, throwing them to the aspect. It truly seems like she’s gaining steam right here…
11:43 – Women at Mile 21: Lokedi heads a trio of leaders
The ladies’s lead pack is thinning – slowly however certainly. Lokedi is making an attempt to match Korir’s back-to-back effort, the 2025 winner nonetheless entrance and centre. Loice Chemnung and Irine Cheptai are together with her, too.
11:39 – RESULT: John Korir claims second Boston Marathon in a row
John Korir wins! He outstretches his arms as he crosses the road in 2:01:52, which is unofficially a course report by greater than a minute. He is beaming as he’s greeted by members of his household and prolonged crew.
It’s a dash to the end for seond. Alphonce Felix Simbu simply outruns Benson Kipruto, at 2:02:47 and a couple of:02:50, respectively.
Zouhair Talbi will end as the highest American man in fifth place, clocking 2:03:45.
11:34 – Men with one mile to go
John Korir goes to win his second Boston Marathon in a row. He is on their own with one mile to go at 25.2 miles, some 45 seconds out entrance.
11:28 – Women at Mile 19: Lead pack is 9
Annie Frisbie has been joined now by eight others within the lead pack, which nonetheless contains Lokedi.
They are at 1:41:14 via 30km (18.6 miles) in Newton.
11:25 – Men at Mile 23: Korir on their own
So simply 5km to go for Korir and he’s wanting tremendous sturdy at 1:47:30. He’s nearing the guts of Boston now and the crowds are packed for him.
It’s a 33-second edge at Mile 23 over Benson Kipruto and Alphonce Felix Simbu.
11:17 – Men at Mile 21: Korir widening his lead
So it is now a 22-second cushion for Korir, who’s seeking to develop into the primary repeat champion right here since his Kenyan compatriot Evans Chebet did it in 2022-23.
1:38:32 via 21 miles, which is a 2:02:44 tempo. That threatens the course report of two:03:02, which belongs to a different Kenyan in Geoffrey Mutai, in 2011.
11:14 – Lokedi nonetheless tucked into lead pack
It’s an enormous group of girls’s leaders – with American Annie Frisbie out in entrance. They’re on tempo for a couple of 2:22:19 end.
Last yr it was Sharon Lokedi who gained in a report time, 2:17:22. So they’re nearly two minutes off that report tempo… however Lokedi is tucked into this pack and never showing to drive the difficulty – simply but.
And now Frisbie who’s out in entrance alone… about 10 paces in entrance of the pack. She was eighth right here a yr in the past.
11:10 – Men at Mile 20: Korir makes his transfer!
Oh wow. Korir, the reigning champ, not solely reels in Mengesha however speeds previous him simply shy of the 20-mile mark. Mengesha cannot go together with him and it is Korir who will lead this race because it hits its ultimate miles.
Three different males have chased down Mengesha, together with the highest American in Zouhair Talbi.
11:03 – Men at Mile 18: Mengesha has actually gone out on his personal
OK we’ve our first large transfer within the males’s race, as Ethiopia’s Milkesa Mengesha has damaged away from the lead pack and has a couple of 10-second edge on the about eight who’re chasing him.
Mengesha gained the Berlin Marathon in 2024 and simply celebrated his twenty sixth birthday final Thursday (16 April).
10:56 – Women at Mile 12: Top runners greeted by enormous roars in “Scream Tunnel”
About 18 ladies on this lead pack, together with Sharon Lokedi, the 2025 champion. Big smiles are spreading throughout the faces of those leaders as they’re showered with enormous roars from sign-holding followers simply off target.
10:42 – Men at midway mark
It’s nonetheless crowded out entrance for the boys, and that features reigning champion John Korir. They’re at a decent 1:01:43.
10:40 – Wheelchair: Eden Rainbow-Cooper claims second win
Great Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper has a second win at this marathon, having develop into her nation’s first to take action right here in 2024. She races in 1:30:51 and is about two minutes forward of Catherine Debrunner.
“It’s amazing to come back and do it again,” Rainbow-Cooper says. “For me, it… it means a lot to me. [Boston] feels like home; it feels like family. Every time I come here there is a little piece of me stays.”
10:22 – Wheelchair: Marcel Hug captures ninth Boston Marathon title in 1:16:05
Switzerland’s celebrity Marcel Hug has claimed the boys’s wheelchair crown simply off report tempo (1:15:33). The win marks his ninth victory in Boston and – are you able to imagine it? – forty seventh Abbott Marathon Major.
“It was such a fantastic race,” Hug says on American broadcaster ESPN. “I felt good from the beginning. I was surprised that I was alone [so early] and then… it was a race against the clock. I pushed really hard.”
10:03 – Women: Trio of Americans out entrance
Sara Hall and Susanna Sullivan are out entrance for the ladies, with Kodi Klein alongside their aspect. They clock a 16:43 over the primary 5kms.
09:51 – Men: Rory Linkletter, Hendrik Pfeiffer lead at 5k mark
It’s an enormous pack for the boys out entrance on the 5km mark, with the Canadian Linkletter and a sunglasses-clad Pfeiffer, the German, reducing right into a slight breeze out in entrance. American CJ Albertson is there, too. The high 10 are all inside just some seconds of one another.
09:47 – Women’s elite begins
Just a couple of minutes after the boys have began it is the ladies’s flip, with Des Linden, the 2018 Boston Marathon champion – and final American girl to win – firing off the beginning gun.
09:37 – Men’s elite underway
The males’s race is beginning first and Korir is standing entrance and centre at first line. It’s a cold (6 Celsius; 43F) but sunny morning within the western Boston suburbs, Korir starting the race clad in gloves.
Pre-race: Fiona O’Keeffe withdraws resulting from torn hamstring
The American ladies’s area is about to be one of many strongest in years, however 2024 Olympic Team Trials winner Fiona O’Keeffe introduced Sunday night (19 April) that she was out of the race resulting from a torn hamstring.