The 2022 Boston Marathon was a

marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ...

race held in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 18, 2022. It was the 126th official running of the race, and 124th time it was run on course (excluding the virtual event of 2020, and the ekiden of 1918). The field was limited to 30,000 runners.

Background

The marathon returned to its traditional Patriots' Day schedule for the first time since

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. All participants were required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Lawrence Cherono and

Benson Kipruto Benson Kipruto (born 17 March 1991) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He won the 125th Boston Marathon in 2021 (2:09:51) and the 2022 Chicago Marathon in a personal best of 2:04:24. Kipruto finished third at both the 2022 and 2023 Boston Marat ...

, both from Kenya, were among the elite runners expected to compete. On April 6, race organizers announced that runners residing in Russia or Belarus would not be allowed to participate, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That decision subsequently drew criticism from an editorial in '' The Boston Globe''.

Results

The elite men's and women's races were won by Kenyans

Evans Chebet Evans Kiplagat Chebet (born 10 November 1988) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road races. In September 2019, after finishing in the top six of every marathon he had finished, Chebet won his first international race, the Buenos ...

and

Peres Jepchirchir Peres Jepchirchir (born 27 September 1993) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who competes mainly in road running competitions. She won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Jepchirchir was the champion ...

, respectively. Wheelchair races were won by

Daniel Romanchuk Daniel Romanchuk (born 3 August 1998) is an American Paralympic athlete who competes primarily in wheelchair racing events. He won the Chicago Marathon on October 7, 2018; just under a month later, he became the first American to win the men's w ...

of the US (men) and

Manuela Schär Manuela Schär (born 5 December 1984) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T54 sprint events. She has used a wheelchair since the age of 8, when a playground accident paralysed her from the waist down. Car ...

of Switzerland (women). Wheelchair racer

Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland, winning two ...

withdrew hours before the race started, for an unknown reason.

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bronze medalist Molly Seidel, who had a

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, dropped out of the race at around due to a hip injury. This was the first time she ran in the Boston Marathon.

Men

Women

Wheelchair men

Wheelchair women

References

External links

Official websiteRace program
{{2022 in athletics Boston Marathon

Boston Marathon The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, the event was i ...

Marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ...