Hundreds participate in 2026 Boston 5K and B.A.A. Invitational Mile
Defending champions and a few new faces topped the Boston 5K standings as roughly 11,000 individuals took to the course on a dreary Saturday, kicking off Boston Marathon weekend.The course begins close to the Boston Public Backyard. From there, it turns onto Arlington Avenue, then down Commonwealth Avenue and Bay State Street earlier than bringing runners again onto Commonwealth Avenue to cross by way of Kenmore Sq.. Contributors then return to Boylston Avenue and end by crossing the Boston Marathon end line.Ethiopia’s Addisu Yihune took prime honors within the males’s race with a time of 13:14, setting a brand new course document. Gela Hambese of Ethiopia defended her title within the girls’s race with a time of 15:28.Eight-time Boston Marathon wheelchair champion — and now five-time Boston 5K winner — Marcel Hug took the highest spot in his division with a time of 10:25. American Daniel Romanchuk completed second.Within the girls’s wheelchair division, American Tatyana McFadden completed first with a time of 12:04, denying Nice Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper a bid for a three-peat.The 5K is adopted by the B.A.A. Invitational Mile at 11 a.m. It options a number of the prime skilled milers on the planet, together with student-athletes from every of the eight cities and cities alongside the Boston Marathon route. The ultimate race of the day is the B.A.A. Youth Mile, which begins at 1 p.m.Within the mile, 2025 champion Dorcus Ewoi of Kenya returns. She can be challenged by Peabody native and 2021 Olympian Heather MacLean, in addition to two-time champion Krissy Gear.The boys’s competitors will function all members of the Atlanta Observe Membership workforce that not too long ago set a 4×800-meter indoor world document: Clay Pender, Luke Houser, Luciano Fiore and Sean Dolan.WCVB is a proud accomplice of the B.A.A. and broadcaster of the Boston Marathon.
Defending champions and a few new faces topped the Boston 5K standings as roughly 11,000 individuals took to the course on a dreary Saturday, kicking off Boston Marathon weekend.
The course begins close to the Boston Public Backyard. From there, it turns onto Arlington Avenue, then down Commonwealth Avenue and Bay State Street earlier than bringing runners again onto Commonwealth Avenue to cross by way of Kenmore Sq.. Contributors then return to Boylston Avenue and end by crossing the Boston Marathon end line.
Ethiopia’s Addisu Yihune took prime honors within the males’s race with a time of 13:14, setting a brand new course document. Gela Hambese of Ethiopia defended her title within the girls’s race with a time of 15:28.
Eight-time Boston Marathon wheelchair champion — and now five-time Boston 5K winner — Marcel Hug took the highest spot in his division with a time of 10:25. American Daniel Romanchuk completed second.
Within the girls’s wheelchair division, American Tatyana McFadden completed first with a time of 12:04, denying Nice Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper a bid for a three-peat.
The 5K is adopted by the B.A.A. Invitational Mile at 11 a.m. It options a number of the prime skilled milers on the planet, together with student-athletes from every of the eight cities and cities alongside the Boston Marathon route. The ultimate race of the day is the B.A.A. Youth Mile, which begins at 1 p.m.
Within the mile, 2025 champion Dorcus Ewoi of Kenya returns. She can be challenged by Peabody native and 2021 Olympian Heather MacLean, in addition to two-time champion Krissy Gear.
The boys’s competitors will function all members of the Atlanta Observe Membership workforce that not too long ago set a 4×800-meter indoor world document: Clay Pender, Luke Houser, Luciano Fiore and Sean Dolan.
WCVB is a proud accomplice of the B.A.A. and broadcaster of the Boston Marathon.
