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Kenya's Benson Kipruto won the pandemic-delayed Boston Marathon on Monday when the race returned from a 30-month absence with a smaller, socially distanced feel and moved from the spring for the first time in its 125-year history. Diana Kipyogei won the women's race to complete the eighth Kenyan sweep since 2000. Although organizers put runners…
For the eighth time since 2000, there was a Kenyan sweep at the Boston Marathon, with wins by Benson Kipruto and Diana Kipyogei.
A rolling start and shrunken field allowed for social distancing on the course, as organizers tried to manage amid a changing COVID-19 pandemic that forced them to cancel the race last year for the first time since the event began in 1897.
BOSTON (AP) -- With fall foliage replacing the blooming daffodils and mylar blankets giving way to masks, the pandemic-delayed 125th Boston Marathon
BOSTON (AP) — Kenya's Benson Kipruto won the pandemic-delayed Boston Marathon on Monday when the race returned from a 30-month absence with a smaller, socially distanced feel and moved from the spring for the first time in its 125-year history.