The Latest: Ethiopia's Atsede Baysa wins Boston Marathon
The 29-year-old, backstab Chicago Chase champ came from 37 abnormal abaft with beneath than 5 afar to go and anesthetized adolescent Ethiopian Tirfi Tsegaye with two afar left.
The Latest on Monday's 120th active of the Boston Chase (all times local):
Noon
Atsede Baysa of Ethiopia has won the women's chase at the Boston Marathon.
Baysa accomplished in an actionable time of 2 hours, 29 minutes, 19 seconds.
Tsegaye was 44 abnormal back.
Defending women's best Carolina Rotich alone out in the aboriginal 5 miles.
Ethiopia went 1-2-3 in the women's race.
***
11:55 a.m.
Police Commissioner William Evans was planning to run in the Boston Chase but absitively he bare to plan instead.
Evans has run 49 marathons and he capital to accomplish Boston the 50th. But afterwards the Brussels bombings, he knew that things weren't absolutely acclimatized down abundant for him to yield the day off on Patriots' Day. He says, "Unfortunately, it's still a crazy apple out there."
Evans was at the accomplishment band on Monday morning blockage things out. He says aegis will be just as bound as it has in the two years back the attacks on Boylston Street in 2013. This year, the advance will accept added measures in the anatomy of added surveillance cameras and anti-drone technology.
Evans says he'll run his 50th chase in Maine next month.
***
11:05 a.m.
Tatyana McFadden has won the women's wheelchair chase at the Boston Marathon.
It was her fourth achievement in a row.
McFadden completed the 26.2-mile advance from Hopkinton to Copley Square in an official time of 1 hour, 42 minutes, 16 seconds. That is 8:10 abaft the almanac clip because of a headwind.
McFadden was built-in in Russia and adopted by an American woman as a baby child.
The 26-year-old McFadden lives in Clarksville, Maryland.
She was cutting a singlet anniversary Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy dead in the 2013 accomplishment band bombings.
***
11 a.m.
Switzerland's Marcel Hug has won his additional beeline men's wheelchair appellation at the Boston Marathon.
Hug beyond the accomplishment band in 1 hour, 24 account and 1 second, which was just 5:36 off the advance and apple record. The 30-year-old belted additional abode Ernst Van Dyk, of South Africa, and Australian Kurt Fearnley, who was third.
The top three accomplished aural a additional of anniversary other. Hug overtook the 10-time best Van Dyk in the final about-face off Boylston Street and outsprinted Van Dyk and Fearnley to the line.
Hug's time was about 5 account faster than his 2015 win.
***
10:15 a.m.
Five afar into the Boston Marathon, arresting best Caroline Rotich chock-full active and confused to the ancillary of the road.
No chat yet on what ability accept afflicted the 31-year-old Kenyan.
Rotich aswell won the Prague Chase in 2013 and Las Vegas in 2009 and ran a claimed best of 2 hours, 23 minutes, 22 abnormal in Chicago in 2012.
Last year, she won Boston by 4 abnormal afterwards outsprinting Ethiopia's Mare Dibaba on Boylston Street.
***
10 a.m.
And they're off. The aristocratic men and the aboriginal of four after-effects of runners accept kicked off the 120th Boston Marathon.
Security is bound for Monday's chase — the third back a brace of bombings dead three assemblage and blood-soaked added than 260 others at the accomplishment band in 2013.
Topping the men's acreage are Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa, who won in 2015 and 2013, and Kenyan Wesley Korir, the 2012 champion.
Weather could play a agency as the 26.2-mile chase unfolds. By midmorning, it had already hit 63 degrees in Boston, admitting forecasters said a sea breeze after in the day could accommodate hardly acknowledgment altitude for the 30,000 competitors.
Racers aswell were ambidextrous with a headwind in the aboriginal few miles.
***
9:35 a.m.
The aristocratic women's chase is underway at the 120th Boston Marathon, beneath by the absence of some top athletes comatose up for the Rio Olympics.
Defending best Caroline Rotich, of Kenya, leads the women's field. Tiki Gelana, the 2012 Olympics gold medalist, and adolescent Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba aswell are in the hunt.
The top American is Neely Spence Gracey, of Spencer, Colorado, authoritative her chase admission Monday.
All three U.S. Olympic Team associates are sitting out Boston. They cover Desi Linden, who was fourth endure year, and Shalane Flanagan, who was ninth.
***
9:20 a.m.
The Boston Chase just got a lot faster with the wheelchair analysis underway.
That analysis includes arresting champions Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, and Tatyana McFadden, of the U.S.
Both are army favorites searching to echo their 2015 victories.
Thirty men and 15 women got off bound on the decline alpha in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
***
9:10 a.m.
Two humans who absent limbs in the 2013 bombings at the Boston Chase accomplishment band are active this year's race.
Adrianne Haslet and Patrick Downes both absent legs in the attacks. Both are on their way from Hopkinton to Boston as allotment of the mobility-impaired analysis in Monday's 120th active of the admirable marathon.
Haslet is a able amphitheater ballerina active to accession money and acquaintance for Limbs for Life, a alms that provides big-ticket prostheses to low-income amputees.
Both are active on appropriate carbon-fiber blades.
***
8:55 a.m.
The Boston Chase is clearly underway with the mobility-impaired athletes ambience off.
About 50 participants with beheld impairments and added disabilities are in Monday's race. They're getting guided by able runners accompanying them forth the 26.2-mile course.
The added aggressive advance rim wheelchair analysis sets off at 9:17 a.m., and the aristocratic women go off at 9:32 a.m.
The aristocratic men and the aboriginal of four after-effects of runners chase at 10 a.m.
***
8:30 a.m.
With the top American marathoners comatose for the Rio Olympics, Neely Spence Gracey could be the best U.S. achievement for a belvedere accomplishment in Boston on Monday.
The 26-year-old from Superior, Colorado, is an eight-time NCAA Analysis II civic best who will be authoritative her chase debut.
But in a way, she has been a marathoner all her life.
Gracey is the babe of 1991 apple championship brownish advocate Steve Spence. Her ancestor accomplished 19th — the No. 2 American all-embracing — in the 1989 Boston Marathon, and Gracey was built-in on Patriots' Day in 1990 while her ancestor was active the race.
The 29-year-old, backstab Chicago Chase champ came from 37 abnormal abaft with beneath than 5 afar to go and anesthetized adolescent Ethiopian Tirfi Tsegaye with two afar left.
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| Ethiopia's Atsede Baysa wins Boston Marathon [Latest Updated] |
The Latest on Monday's 120th active of the Boston Chase (all times local):
Noon
Atsede Baysa of Ethiopia has won the women's chase at the Boston Marathon.
Baysa accomplished in an actionable time of 2 hours, 29 minutes, 19 seconds.
Tsegaye was 44 abnormal back.
Defending women's best Carolina Rotich alone out in the aboriginal 5 miles.
Ethiopia went 1-2-3 in the women's race.
***
11:55 a.m.
Police Commissioner William Evans was planning to run in the Boston Chase but absitively he bare to plan instead.
Evans has run 49 marathons and he capital to accomplish Boston the 50th. But afterwards the Brussels bombings, he knew that things weren't absolutely acclimatized down abundant for him to yield the day off on Patriots' Day. He says, "Unfortunately, it's still a crazy apple out there."
Evans was at the accomplishment band on Monday morning blockage things out. He says aegis will be just as bound as it has in the two years back the attacks on Boylston Street in 2013. This year, the advance will accept added measures in the anatomy of added surveillance cameras and anti-drone technology.
Evans says he'll run his 50th chase in Maine next month.
***
11:05 a.m.
Tatyana McFadden has won the women's wheelchair chase at the Boston Marathon.
It was her fourth achievement in a row.
McFadden completed the 26.2-mile advance from Hopkinton to Copley Square in an official time of 1 hour, 42 minutes, 16 seconds. That is 8:10 abaft the almanac clip because of a headwind.
McFadden was built-in in Russia and adopted by an American woman as a baby child.
The 26-year-old McFadden lives in Clarksville, Maryland.
She was cutting a singlet anniversary Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy dead in the 2013 accomplishment band bombings.
***
11 a.m.
Switzerland's Marcel Hug has won his additional beeline men's wheelchair appellation at the Boston Marathon.
Hug beyond the accomplishment band in 1 hour, 24 account and 1 second, which was just 5:36 off the advance and apple record. The 30-year-old belted additional abode Ernst Van Dyk, of South Africa, and Australian Kurt Fearnley, who was third.
The top three accomplished aural a additional of anniversary other. Hug overtook the 10-time best Van Dyk in the final about-face off Boylston Street and outsprinted Van Dyk and Fearnley to the line.
Hug's time was about 5 account faster than his 2015 win.
***
10:15 a.m.
Five afar into the Boston Marathon, arresting best Caroline Rotich chock-full active and confused to the ancillary of the road.
No chat yet on what ability accept afflicted the 31-year-old Kenyan.
Rotich aswell won the Prague Chase in 2013 and Las Vegas in 2009 and ran a claimed best of 2 hours, 23 minutes, 22 abnormal in Chicago in 2012.
Last year, she won Boston by 4 abnormal afterwards outsprinting Ethiopia's Mare Dibaba on Boylston Street.
***
10 a.m.
And they're off. The aristocratic men and the aboriginal of four after-effects of runners accept kicked off the 120th Boston Marathon.
Security is bound for Monday's chase — the third back a brace of bombings dead three assemblage and blood-soaked added than 260 others at the accomplishment band in 2013.
Topping the men's acreage are Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa, who won in 2015 and 2013, and Kenyan Wesley Korir, the 2012 champion.
Weather could play a agency as the 26.2-mile chase unfolds. By midmorning, it had already hit 63 degrees in Boston, admitting forecasters said a sea breeze after in the day could accommodate hardly acknowledgment altitude for the 30,000 competitors.
Racers aswell were ambidextrous with a headwind in the aboriginal few miles.
***
9:35 a.m.
The aristocratic women's chase is underway at the 120th Boston Marathon, beneath by the absence of some top athletes comatose up for the Rio Olympics.
Defending best Caroline Rotich, of Kenya, leads the women's field. Tiki Gelana, the 2012 Olympics gold medalist, and adolescent Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba aswell are in the hunt.
The top American is Neely Spence Gracey, of Spencer, Colorado, authoritative her chase admission Monday.
All three U.S. Olympic Team associates are sitting out Boston. They cover Desi Linden, who was fourth endure year, and Shalane Flanagan, who was ninth.
***
9:20 a.m.
The Boston Chase just got a lot faster with the wheelchair analysis underway.
That analysis includes arresting champions Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, and Tatyana McFadden, of the U.S.
Both are army favorites searching to echo their 2015 victories.
Thirty men and 15 women got off bound on the decline alpha in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
***
9:10 a.m.
Two humans who absent limbs in the 2013 bombings at the Boston Chase accomplishment band are active this year's race.
Adrianne Haslet and Patrick Downes both absent legs in the attacks. Both are on their way from Hopkinton to Boston as allotment of the mobility-impaired analysis in Monday's 120th active of the admirable marathon.
Haslet is a able amphitheater ballerina active to accession money and acquaintance for Limbs for Life, a alms that provides big-ticket prostheses to low-income amputees.
Both are active on appropriate carbon-fiber blades.
***
8:55 a.m.
The Boston Chase is clearly underway with the mobility-impaired athletes ambience off.
About 50 participants with beheld impairments and added disabilities are in Monday's race. They're getting guided by able runners accompanying them forth the 26.2-mile course.
The added aggressive advance rim wheelchair analysis sets off at 9:17 a.m., and the aristocratic women go off at 9:32 a.m.
The aristocratic men and the aboriginal of four after-effects of runners chase at 10 a.m.
***
8:30 a.m.
With the top American marathoners comatose for the Rio Olympics, Neely Spence Gracey could be the best U.S. achievement for a belvedere accomplishment in Boston on Monday.
The 26-year-old from Superior, Colorado, is an eight-time NCAA Analysis II civic best who will be authoritative her chase debut.
But in a way, she has been a marathoner all her life.
Gracey is the babe of 1991 apple championship brownish advocate Steve Spence. Her ancestor accomplished 19th — the No. 2 American all-embracing — in the 1989 Boston Marathon, and Gracey was built-in on Patriots' Day in 1990 while her ancestor was active the race.
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