The 2023 Boston Marathon delivered high drama, as the Kenyan Evans Chebet held off the challenge of Tanzanian Gabriel Geay to finish with a time of 2:05:54, the third-fastest time in race history.<br /><br />Meanwhile, in the elite women’s race, 33-year-old Kenya’s Hellen Obiri set a personal best time of 2:21:38 to claim her first-ever Marathon title and was hugged by her daughter after cutting the finish line.<br /><br />This year’s edition held special significance as it is the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, a domestic terrorist attack in 2013.
