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Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot and Rita Jeptoo win 110th Boston Marathon

2006-04-18

The Kenyans Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot and Rita Jeptoo won the 110^th BAA Boston Marathon. In good weather conditions 22,517 athletes participated in the race which has a point-to-point course from Hopkinton to Boston. The BAA Boston Marathon was also the premiere of the new World Marathon Majors Series (WMM). Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won with a new course record of 2:07:14 hours ahead of his countryman Benjamin Maiyo (2:08:21) and US American Meb Keflezighi (2:09:56). Rita Jeptoo won in 2:23:38 hours ahead of Jelena Prokopcuka (Latvia/2:23:48) and Japanese Reiko Tosa (2:24:11).

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