Defending champion John Korir broke the Boston Marathon course record, riding a tailwind to outrun the fastest field in event history and win in 2 hours, 1 minute, 52 seconds for his second straight victory.<\/p>\n
The Kenyan broke away from the pack as it headed into Heartbreak Hill in Newton and opened a 40-second lead, peeking behind him as he went through Kenmore Square with a mile to go.<\/p>\n
Sharon Lokedi joined her fellow Kenyan as a back-to-back champion, winning the women\u2019s race in 2:18:51.<\/p>\n
Zouhair Talbi and Jess McClain ran the fastest times ever for Americans at the Boston Marathon, both finishing fifth in their respective divisions. Talbi finished in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds in the men\u2019s race. McClain finished in 2:20:49 in the women\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n
Scranton\u2019s Andrew Healey finished 69th overall in a time of 2:19:41 to pace 24 local runners who competed in the 26.2 mile race.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Healey, a 2020 Holy Cross High School graduate, was The Times-Tribune Runner of the Year as a senior, and went on to Boston College, where he graduated in 2024.<\/p>\n
Here is as list of local runners who completed the marathon:<\/p>\n
Name, Age, City, Time (place)<\/p>\n
Andrew Healey, 24, Scranton, 2:19:41 (69th overall)<\/p>\n
Donald Bird, 37, Clarks Summit, 2:37:04 (835)<\/p>\n
Timothy Nowakowski, 40, Factoryville, 2:52:02 (3,406)<\/p>\n
Nicholas Gershey, 25, S. Abington Twp., 2:54:54 (4,181)<\/p>\n
Mike Adamshick, 47, Dallas, 2:56:08 (4,519)<\/p>\n
Jillian Wolk, 21, Sugarloaf, 3:05:39 (7,287; 1,055 women)<\/p>\n
Matthew Stopper, 48, Clarks Summit, 3:15:30 (10,388)<\/p>\n
Jillian Heller, 40, Nanticoke, 3:23:16 (12,841; 3,734 women)<\/p>\n
Stephen Rouch, 45, Kingston, 3:26:03 (13,722)<\/p>\n
Emily Bell, 43, Bear Creek Twp., 3:28:51 (14,581; 4,716 women)<\/p>\n
Michael McAndrew, 66, Pittston, 3:34:43 (16,149)<\/p>\n
Michael Wojnarski, 61, Mehoopany, 3:37:22 (16,820)<\/p>\n
Deedra Porfirio, 49, Exeter, 3:37:24 (16,832; 6,021 women)<\/p>\n
Amanda Wilczynski, 43, Mayfield, 3:40:05 (17,480; 6,384 women)<\/p>\n
Sarah Leskosky, 46, Drums, 3:42:32 (18,080; 6,711 women)<\/p>\n
Harry Rosen, 60, Lords Valley, 3:42:36 (18,097)<\/p>\n
Charlene Aquilina, 45, Wyoming, 3:44:17 (18,478; 6,936 women)<\/p>\n
Amy Neugebauer, 52, Beach Lake, 3:44:42 (18,559; 6,979 women)<\/p>\n
Grazyna Cina, 51, Montrose, 3:46.27 (18,951; 7,204 women)<\/p>\n
Michael Hanlon, 62, Waverly Twp., 3:54:11 (20,500)<\/p>\n
Melissa Ritz, 47, Sugarloaf, 4:00:17 (21,512; 8,530 women)<\/p>\n
Lynn King, 55, Scranton, 4:00:41 (21,573; 8,560 women)<\/p>\n
Jennifer Surmick, 46, Drums, 4:01:48 (21,705; 8,638 women)<\/p>\n
Colleen Kostiak, 56, Ranson Twp., 4:07:13 (22,170; 8,918 women)<\/p>\n
SOURCE: Boston Athletic Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion John Korir broke the Boston Marathon course record, riding a tailwind to outrun the fastest field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-171163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}