Mutai wins Boston Marathon

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Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon, finishing it in 2 hours, 3 minutes and 2 seconds.

19 April,2011 10:56 am

Mutai’s time was a record for the 26.2-mile distance but it did not count for as the world record because the Boston course is not a point-to-point race and the overall decrease in elevation of the course is greater than that allowed by the track and fields world governing body. Mutai was almost three minutes better than the course record set last year by Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot. His compatriot, Moses Mosop, came second with the difference of four seconds.Caroline Kilel won the womens race to complete the Kenyan sweep, outsprinting American Desiree Davila to win by two seconds, in 2 hours 22 minutes and 36 seconds. Davila led as late as the final stretch on Boylston Street and ran the fastest time ever for a US woman, five seconds faster than Joan Benoit finished to win in 1983.