It’s time as soon as once more for the Boston Marathon! The 2025 version of the race is ready to run on Monday, April 21 with Kenyan runner Hellen Obiri aiming for her third straight victory within the iconic race. The athletes will begin the course in Hopkinton, Massachusetts at 9:06 a.m. ET when the boys’s wheelchair division will get going and the occasion will air nationally on ESPN2.
Begin and end occasions
Obiri and the remainder of the skilled ladies will get began at 9:47 a.m. ET. They would be the fifth group to cross the beginning line. After the boys’s wheelchair division begins the race at 9:06, the ladies’s wheelchair division follows at 9:09 a.m. ET. The total checklist of beginning occasions is as follows:
- Males’s Wheelchair: 9:06 a.m.
- Girls’s Wheelchair: 9:09 a.m.
- Handcycles & Duos: 9:30 a.m.
- Skilled Males: 9:37 a.m.
- Skilled Girls: 9:47 a.m.
- Para Athletics Division: 9:50 a.m.
- Wave 1: 10:00 a.m.
- Wave 2: 10:25 a.m.
- Wave 3: 10:50 a.m.
- Wave 4: 11:15 a.m.
We don’t know precisely when the primary runners will cross the end line, however we will present some estimates based mostly on current ending occasions. Final yr, wheelchair racer Marcel Hug set a course file with a time of 1:15:35, besting his earlier course file in 2023 of 1:17:06. He has received the race seven occasions, and 4 of his 5 most up-to-date victories all got here in underneath 80 minutes. He’s again and aiming for his eighth victory. If he races in something near the identical time, he’ll be the primary to cross the end line on Boylston Road close to Copley Sq. at someplace round 9:26 a.m.
Final yr, Sisay Lemma surprised the sector {of professional} males with a time of two:06:17. He had DNF’d the race in 2017 and this was his first time again since. The previous three races has seen the winner end in lower than 2:07, with Benson Kipruto working it in 2:09:51 in 2021. That may recommend the primary skilled will cross the end line simply earlier than 11:45 a.m. On the ladies’s aspect, the final 4 winners have all completed at or underneath 2:25. The same end time would see the primary skilled girl cross the end line a little bit after midday.
Tips on how to watch (TV and dwell stream)
Most marathons are solely proven on native tv. The most important marathons get an even bigger therapy. The 2025 Boston Marathon will air nationwide on ESPN2 and shall be simulcast on ESPN+. The native Boston affiliate airing the race is WCVB. They’ll have protection began at 4 a.m., with ESPN+ simulcasting that till 8:30 a.m. ESPN2 protection begins at 8:30 a.m. and runs till 12:30 p.m., after which ESPN+ will return to simulcasting WCVB’s protection till 4 p.m. ESPN Deportes will air the race in Spanish from 9:30 a.m. till midday.
Within the higher New England area, WCVB’s protection shall be simulcast on WMUR in New Hampshire, WMTW in Maine, and WPTZ in Vermont and New York. Reside streams shall be out there on the WCVB app and every station’s web site, in addition to the Very Native platform.
Course map
The total course map is proven under, and you can even view it at the Boston Marathon web site. The beginning line is on Major Road in Hopkinton. The runners observe Route 135 for 13 miles into Wellesley the place it joins Route 16. They’ll observe that into Newton Decrease Falls earlier than turning onto Commonwealth Avenue simply after the seventeenth mile. Simply after ending the twentieth mile, Heartbreak Hill arrives to offer the final main take a look at of the race. The runners then activate to Beacon Road within the twenty third mile, taking that by means of Brookline into Boston. The shut of the race comes with a flip onto Hereford Road after which a left onto Boylston Road with the end line close to the Boston Public Library in Copley Sq..
Climate
Situations have gotten tough over time, however this yr ought to be almost ultimate working circumstances. The beginning of the race in Hopkinton shall be within the excessive 40s when the primary athletes get began. It’s going to doubtless be round 50 when the professionals get began, and within the mid-to-high 50s by the point the final of the waves get began.
When the primary runners are reaching the end line close to Copley Sq., the temperatures ought to be within the low 50s. It’s going to get into the excessive 50s and possibly 60 for later runners, however not far more than that, which makes for a wonderful day of working.
Prize cash
The Boston Marathon distributes prize cash equally between the boys’s and girls’s divisions. The open division winners will every obtain $150,000. The Wheelchair Division T53/54/34 winners will every obtain $50,000. The Wheelchair Division T51-52 winners will every obtain $1,500. The Masters Division winners will every obtain $5,000.
The total checklist of prize cash is offered at the Boston Marathon web site.
Who’re the favorites to win the 2025 Boston Marathon?
Hellen Obiri seems to be to develop into the primary girl because the Nineties to assert three straight Boston Marathon titles. She got here off an harm to win the Olympic bronze medal final summer season and completed second within the New York Metropolis Marathon final fall. Sharon Lokedi completed second final yr in her first run in Boston, and received the 2022 New York Metropolis Marathon. She is coming off a win on the New York Half Marathon in March. Emma Bates was the highest American girl final yr, and will see some competitors from 2018 winner Desiree Linden.
On the boys’s aspect, Evans Chebet is trying to rebound after lacking out on a threepeat final yr. He completed third after which was left off Kenya’s Olympic workforce. Sisay Lemma is the defending champ in solely his second Boston look, however given his upset, it would take one other shock to take house first place. Conner Mantz is the highest American to observe on Monday.
Who received the final race? What are the course data?
In 2024, Sisay Lemma received the Skilled Males’s division with a time of two:06:17 and Hellen Obiri received the Skilled Girls’s division with a time of two:22:37. Obiri received the 2023 race as properly with a time of two:21:38. Geoffrey Mutai set the boys’s course file in 2011 with a time of two:03:02. Buzunesh Deba set the ladies’s course file in 2014 with a time of two:19:59.
Within the wheelchair division, Marcel Hug received the boys’s division with a course file time of 1:15:35 and Eden Rainbow-Cooper received the ladies’s division with a time of 1:35:11. Manuela Schär set the ladies’s wheelchair course file in 2017 with a time of 1:28:17.
Within the handcycle division, Zachary Stinson received the boys’s division with a time of 1:04:46 and Alicia Dana received the ladies’s division with a course file of 1:15:20. Tom Davis set the boys’s course file in 2017 with a time of 0:58:36.
