This is the 2022 Boston Marathon Super Fast Elite Men's Arena. The fastest marathon to compete in the Boston Marathon will lead men in the professional arena announced Thursday morning.
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Kenesa Beckel of Ethiopia, who ran the second fastest in the history of the 2019 Berlin Marathon at 2:01:41, will run the 126th Boston Marathon for the first time on April 18. "We recognize the tradition of the Boston Marathon, the world's most historic marathon, and look forward to the April race," Beckel told the Boston Athletic Association. "Boston, Ethiopia has a long tradition and I'm excited to be part of that heritage. I've been looking forward to the Boston Marathon."
Beckley includes last October champion Benson Kipult of Kenya and five past winners, Lawrence Cherno (2019), Yuki Kawauchi (2018), Geoffrey Kirui (2017), Remibel Hanu (2016) and Relisadesisa. (2013) will participate. .. Belhanu finished second last year, and Ethiopia's Gemal Aimer came back a second earlier.
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2:02:57 Titus Ikiru will be hosting the fastest marathon last year. Also attending will be Evans Chebet, the fastest in 2020 (2:03:00), and Albert Curry, who defends the winner of the New York City Marathon.
In total, 12 men with personal records of less than 2:06 have raced on courses where sub 2:06 has not been achieved since Geoffrey Mutai recorded the course at 2:03:02 in 2011. increase.
"It's very exciting to return to Boston as a champion, but at the same time I feel the pressure and responsibility to defend my title," said Kipult. "I'm really grateful to the athletes who won multiple races in big races. I really want to do my best to be one of them. And I at the Boston Championship that people have long remembered. I really want to be able to write my name. "
Top American finisher Colin Benny, who finished 7th at 2:11:26 last year, returned to his second attempt with a runner at a much faster pace than his 2:09:38. You will be together.
"Looking at these people and watching and listening for years, we finally realize that you're not only racing the same as them, but they aren't. Are competing with them, "said Benny, who was born in Princeton and graduated from Watchtower Regional High School. "This is a very nice and exciting opportunity and I welcome it."
Just 40 miles from Hopkinton's starting line with Princeton, Benny may have more fans on the track than other elite runners and will not lose his chances.
"Everyone is very supportive, even if no one knows in the crowd. It will be a great experience," Benny said. I don't think people are needed there because it is so powerful and empowering.
"But that said, he remembers at least one thing when a high school athletics coach yelled at me at the top of Newton's hill."
28-year-old Matt McDonald, who finished 20th last year, is a postdoctoral fellow in chemical engineering at MIT and can train as much as he wants on the course.
McDonald's, a member of the BAA High Performance Team, said: "At that time, it just became our awareness. Literally last October, September, last summer August, I was running on a beacon and trying to remember the course directly above and below every day. I was there.
"And the Newton course is one of the best places to run in the winter. I'm there too. Yes, every time I get a chance to take a course, it's a real blessing."
Last year's professional wheelchair winner, Marcel Allingon of Switzerland, is aiming for his sixth title for the first time in seven years. Daniel Romanchuk of the United States and Anthony van Dyck of South Africa, who finished second and third last year, will also return in the top ten wheelchair finishers this year.
Australia's T46 world record holders Michael Roger, Chase Davis (T12) and Marco Chesetto Lemtukei (T62) will participate in the Para-Athletics category.
With the Kovid-19 epidemic, the race will return to Patriot Day for the first time in three years.
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