Nearly 30,000 runners were scheduled to follow the wheelchair racers from Hopkinton to Boston’s Back Bay
Men's wheelchair athletes break from the line at the start of the Boston Marathon, in Hopkinton, Mass., on April 15.Six-time champion Marcel Hug of Switzerland led the wheelchair field on its way to begin the 128th edition of the Boston Marathon on Monday as this otherwise sleepy New England town celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line.
The start line was painted to say “100 years in Hopkinton,” commemorating the 1924 move from Ashland to Hopkinton to conform to the official Olympic Marathon distance. The announcer welcomed the gathering crowds to the “sleepy little town of Hopkinton, 364 days of the year.”The annual race on Patriots’ Day, the state holiday that commemorates the start of the Revolutionary War, also fell on One Boston Day, when the city remembers the victims of the 2013 marathon bombings.
The town located about 26.2 miles west of Boston was the gathering place again on Monday morning for a field of almost 30,000 runners preparing for the trek to Copley Square. The injury led to a setback that kept her from competing in the Olympic marathon trials in February. So she’s back in Boston, a year after she led the pack through Brookline with the crowd chanting her name.
A victory for Chebet would be the first Boston three-peat since Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won three in a row from 2006 to 2008. He also hopes a victory will earn him a spot in this year’s Paris Olympics.
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