John Walker, Greg Derr, Art Illman and Jon Ratner
MetroWest Daily News
Updated April 20, 2026, 12:17 p.m. ET
Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi crosses the finish line to win the ladies’s elite race within the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026. Lokedi received the Boston Marathon final yr, setting a course file which she almost beat this yr.
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Kenya’s Sam Chelanga is handed a United States Army flag through the males’s elite race on April 20, 2026, through the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon.
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Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi crosses the finish line to win the ladies’s elite race within the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026. Lokedi received the Boston Marathon final yr, setting a course file which she almost beat this yr.
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Sharon Lokedi wears her new pink sneakers as she stayed with the pack of elite girls runners in a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026. Lokedi broke from the pack simply outdoors of Boston, profitable her second girls’s title in a row.
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Fans cheer on runners within the males’s division through the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Boston Marathon gold medalist Kenya’s John Korir celebrates profitable the boys’s elite race on April 20, 2026, which was the a hundred and thirtieth working of the race.
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Second place Tanzania’s Alphonce Simbu crosses the finish line within the males’s elite race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026.
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Third place Kenya’s Benson Kipruto crosses the finish line within the males’s elite race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026.
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Spectators watch the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon from the home windows of a downtown Boston workplace constructing on April 20, 2026.
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Kenya’s John Korir crosses the finish line to win the boys’s elite race within the Boston Marathon Monday, April 20, 2026, setting a course file in 2 hours 1 minute 52 seconds.
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Athletics – Boston Marathon – Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. – April 20, 2026 Kenya’s John Korir crosses the finish line to win the boys’s elite race REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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The skilled males runners start on the a hundred and thirtieth working of the Boston Marathon, April 20, 2026.
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Boston Marathon gold medalist Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper celebrates after profitable the ladies’s wheelchair race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon. This was Rainbow-Cooper’s second win in a row.
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Boston Marathon gold medalist Switzerland’s Marcel Hug celebrates on the rostrum after profitable the boys’s wheelchair race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026. Hug has received 9 Boston Marathons.
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The pack of leaders within the girls’s elite race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon run via the 14th mile of the race, which is in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The runners had simply handed the midway level.
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The pack of leaders within the girls’s elite race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon run via the 14th mile of the race, which is in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The runners had simply handed the midway level.
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The leaders within the males’s elite race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon run via the 14th mile of the race, which is in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The runners had simply handed the midway level.
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The leaders within the males’s elite race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon run via the 14th mile of the race, which is in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The runners had simply handed the midway level.
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A gaggle of the ladies’s elite runners within the 2026 Boston Marathon make their manner via East Central Street in Natick. The pack of runners was being led by Dakotah Popehn and Kodi Kleven.
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A gaggle of the boys’s elite runners within the 2026 Boston Marathon make their manner via East Central Street in Natick on April 20, 2026.
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A navy airplane flies over the finish line through the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026.
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Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper crosses the finish line to win the ladies’s wheelchair race. This is her second win on the course. She did it in 1 hour, half-hour and 49 seconds.
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Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper crosses the finish line to win the ladies’s wheelchair race of the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026. This is her second win in Boston.
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The skilled girls runners start on the a hundred and thirtieth working of the Boston Marathon, April 20, 2026.
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The first wave of runners start the a hundred and thirtieth working of the Boston Marathon, April 20, 2026.
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Switzerland’s Marcel Hug crosses the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon finish line to win the boys’s wheelchair race on April 20, 2026. This is his ninth win, and he accomplished the race in 1 hour 16 minutes and three seconds.
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Switzerland’s Marcel Hug crosses the finish line to win the boys’s wheelchair race within the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026. This is his ninth win on the course
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Zachary Stinson leads handcycle pack on East Central Street in Natick through the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a two-time Boston Marathon handcycling champion (2021 and 2023).
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Eden Rainbow Cooper leads the ladies’s wheelchair pack on East Central Street in Natick. The 24-year-old British racer received the Boston Marathon in 2024.
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Marcel Hug leads the pack on East Central Street in Natick. The Swiss racer holds the Boston Marathon course file of 1 hour, quarter-hour and 33 seconds set in 2024.
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U.S. servicemembers march via Natick, Massachusetts, because the lead off the a hundred and thirtieth Boston Marathon on April 20, 2026. The members of this wave left Hopkinton hours forward of the elite runners and the charity runners.
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Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray thanks navy marchers, greater than 50 Army and Air National Guardsmen, on the beginning line in Hopkinton on April 20, 2026.
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Massachusetts Army and Air National Guard Military marchers start their trek to Boston at 6 a.m. on the a hundred and thirtieth working of the Boston Marathon in Hopkinton on April 20, 2026.
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Master Sgt. Hercules Lobo, of Bedford, and Specialist Ben DeBoer, of Hopedale, are among the many 50 Massachusetts Army and Air National Guard navy marchers on the a hundred and thirtieth working of the Boston Marathon in Hopkinton on April 20, 2026.
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The Muffin House Cafe in Hopkinton was stuffed with law enforcement officials at 6 a.m. earlier than the a hundred and thirtieth working of the Boston Marathon in Hopkinton on April 20, 2026.
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A monument to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing stands close to the finish line of the a hundred and thirtieth working of the Boston Marathon.
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General view as a safety member and a police officer with a canine are seen by the memorial website on the morning of April 20, 2026, the place the Boston bombing in 2013 occurred. Ceremonies honored the victims of the terrorist assault on the anniversary on April 15.
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