Glory in the US as Kenya's Korir and Lokedi win 2025 Boston Marathon

Kenya's John Korir and Sharon Lokedi were victorious on Monday at the Boston Marathon as they beat accomplished fields on both sides to register a winning day for the Kenyan marathon community.

Lokedi, who has come close in the past, produced the fastest women's time in race history, while Korir took the men's race, 13 years after his older brother won it.

Lokedi, runner-up in 2024, pulled away from two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri in the last mile.

She clocked an unofficial 2 hours, 17 minutes, 22 seconds, smashing the course record of 2:19:59 set by Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba in 2014.

She won against Obiri, who beat her in the 2024 marathon.

"I'm always second to her," Lokedi told NBC after the race.

"And today, I was like, no way, I just have to put it out there and just fight to the end and see how it goes. So I'm glad I ran that fast, and she was right behind me, and we all just fought and wanted this so bad."

Obiri, who crossed 19 seconds behind, was bidding to become the first woman to three-peat in Boston since Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia from 1997-99.

Korir, the 2024 Chicago Marathon winner, ran 2:04:45, the second-fastest men's winning time in Boston history (dating to 1897) behind Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai's 2:03:03 in 2011.

His older brother, Wesley, won the Boston Marathon in 2012.

Alphonce Simbu of Tanzania was runner-up, 19 seconds behind, followed by Kenyan Cybrian Kotut in the same time.

American Conner Mantz was fourth, just four seconds shy of his first major marathon podium.

Mantz's time 2:05:04 is the second-fastest marathon ever run by an American behind Ryan Hall's 2:04:58 from Boston in 2011.

The Boston course is not record-eligible as it is point-to-point and net downhill.

Marcel Hug of Switzerland won his eighth Boston Marathon in the men's wheelchair division, and American Susannah Scaroni won her second championship in the women's wheelchair division.