What is the Boston Marathon record in each category?

The Boston Marathon is one of the oldest and most popular annual marathons in the world, with the first ever race taking place in 1897. It is held every year on Patriots Day, the third Monday in April, in Boston, Massachusetts.

The competition is one of the six World Marathon Majors, along with the Tokyo, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York City contests, and is considered one of the most prestigious races in the sport of long-distance running.

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On Monday, April 15, some 30,000 runners from around the world will be joining the Boston Marathon’s 128th edition. The course begins in the town of Hopkinton, west of Boston, and follows a point-to-point route through several cities and towns, including Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, and Brookline, before finishing in downtown Boston near Copley Square.

This competition is famous for its challenging route, particularly the infamous “Heartbreak Hill” in Newton, which runners encounter around the 20-mile mark. Despite the difficulty of the course, the marathon is known for producing fast times and has been the site of many memorable racing performances.

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What is the Boston Marathon record in each category?

The Boston event has seen quite a number of impressive performances, at times resulting in the setting of world records at the time of the race.

Currently, the all-time records set in this competition are just a few minutes shy of the world record. The time clocked by Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya in the 2011 Boston Marathon, for example, is only three minutes more than the world record held by fellow Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum set only a few months ago at the 2023 Chicago Marathon.

Here are the fastest times ever recorded in the Boston Marathon.