Posted on 17 April 2011. Tags: Alistair Cragg, Bekana Daba, Blake Russell, boston marathon, catherine ndereba, desiree davila, Dire Tune, elite, Elite Marathoners, ethiopia, evans Cheruiyot, Florence Kiplagat, Gebre Gebremariam, geoffrey mutai, Gilbert Yegon, Ireland, Kara Goucher, kenya, kim smith, moses kigen kipkosgei, Moses Mosop, New Zealand, patriot's day, Prize Money, Robert Kipchumba, Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, Runners, running, Russia, ryan hall, Tadese Tola, Tatyana Pushkareva, Teyba Erkesso, united states
Here is a look at the elite marathoners running the 2011 Boston Marathon on Patriot’s Day, April 18, 2011.
Elite Boston Marathon Men
- Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot (Kenya) – 2:05:52 – Boston 2010 (Defending Champ)
- Ryan Hall (United States) – Best Marathon 2:06:17 – London Marathon 2007
- Geoffrey Mutai (Kenya) – 2:04:55 – Rotterdam Marathon 2010
- Gebre Gebremariam (Ethiopia) – 2:08:14 NYC Marathon 2010
- Alistair Cragg (Ireland) – Marathon Debut
- Evans Cheruiyot (Kenya)
- Bekana Daba (Ethiopia)
- Tadese Tola (Ethiopia)
- Robert Kipchumba (Kenya)
- Gilbert Yegon (Kenya)
- Moses Kigen Kipkosgei (Kenya)
- Moses Mosop (Kenya) – Marathon Debut
Elite Boston Marathon Women
- Teyba Erkesso (Ethiopia)
- Tatyana Pushkareva (Russia)
- Dire Tune (Ethiopia)
- Kara Goucher (United States)
- “Queen” Catherine Ndereba (Kenya) – 4-time Boston Marathon Champion
- Florence Kiplagat (Kenya)
- Desiree Davila (United States)
- Blake Russell (United States)
- Kim Smith (New Zealand)
The male and female winner of the 2011 Boston Marathon will each receive $150,000.00 in prize money out of a prize pot of $806,000.00.
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Posted on 19 October 2010. Tags: 2011 boston marathon, 2012 boston marathon date, boston athletic association, boston marathon, boston marathon qualifying times, boston marathon registration, chuck engle, marathon, marathonjunkie, patriot's day, running
The Boston Marathon is a Super Bowl of sorts for marathon runners. There is usually around 25,000 spots for the race with 6,000 of those going to charities and corporations. That leaves around 19,000 coveted positions for runners who BQ’ed (Boston Qualified) at marathon races throughout the country over the past year.
Last year it took nearly two months for the race to fill up. Every year before that you could register almost up until race day for the most part.
Yesterday, the first day you could register for the 2011 Boston Marathon, the race filled up in just eight hours. 26,800 runners registered on the Boston Athletic Association website between 9:00 AM and 5:03 PM.
Extreme marathoner Chuck ‘Marathonjunkie’ Engle and others kept dibs on Facebook as the registration numbers kept rising throughout the day. Engle and others claimed computer issues with the Boston Marathon website made it hard early on in the day to sign up.
What does all of that mean? It means a lot of runners that set the goal of running Boston and qualified at a race during the past year will have to try to qualify again now for the 2012 Boston Marathon.
It does seem a bit harsh and unfair. One day, one shot, one good internet connection in order to run the Super Bowl of marathons.
Well, there is always next year….maybe!
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