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The standards have been in place since 1970 for male runners and 1972 for female runners. The standards are published by the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.), in advance of the qualifying window. To "qualify" for the Boston Marathon runners need to have run a marathon at a time given for their gender and age (as shown in the tables below).
The Boston Athletic Association has updated its qualifying times for the world's oldest annual marathon, asking most prospective competitors to run a 26.2-mile race five minutes faster than in ...
On September 27, 2018, the B.A.A. announced that they were lowering the qualifying times for the 2020 marathon by another five minutes, with male runners in the 18-34 age group required to run a time of 3:00:00 (3 hours) or less and female runners in the 18-34 age group required to run a time of 3:30:00 (3 hours, 30 minutes) or less in order to ...
The 2024 Boston Marathon was the 128th official edition of the annual marathon race in Boston, Massachusetts, run on Monday, April 15, 2024. [1][2][3][4] A Platinum Label marathon, it was the second of six World Marathon Majors events scheduled for 2024. [5][6] The number of participants was limited to 30,000, with 22,019 runners chosen basen ...
BOSTON (AP) — Runners hoping to qualify for the 2026 Boston Marathon are going to have to pick up the pace. The Boston Athletic Association has updated its qualifying times for the world's oldest annual marathon, asking most prospective competitors to run a 26.2-mile race five minutes faster than in recent years to earn a starting number.
By Lincoln Son Currie, the BU News Service. April 17, 2023. Kenya’s Hellen Obiri won the 127th Boston Marathon’s women’s profession division with a time of 2:21:38 at 12:10. The non-binary ...
October 8, 2021. With a new October race date, the largest pool of rejected qualifying runners in its history, a global pandemic and the next marathon only six months away, the 125th Boston ...
CHICAGO — Sarah Bohan toed the starting line of the Chicago Marathon last weekend with a very specific plan in place. But by the time she finished the 26.2-mile course, her mission had changed ...