On Monday, April 20th was the 118th Boston Marathon. The Boston Marathon is 26.2 miles that 26,610 people have finished this year. The two winners are Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia and Caroline Rotich of Kenya. The first Boston Marathon was on April 19, 1897. Roberta Gibbs was the first woman ever to finish the Boston Marathon in 1966. The Boston Marathon was the first major marathon to include a wheelchair division in which Bob Hall in 1975 was the first man to race in the marathon in a wheelchair.
Lelisa Desisa was the first person to cross the 2015 Boston Marathon finish line for the men's elite division. He finished in 2:09:17 beating himself from the 2013 marathon with a time of 2:10:22. Lelisa has won a silver metal in the world championship in Moscow in 2013. In the All Africa Games in 2011 he won a gold metal in the half marathon. Lelisa has accomplished a lot more and only at the age of 25.
Caroline Rotich is the winner for the woman elite division in the 2015 Boston Marathon. She finished in an impressive 2:24:55 time. Caroline is 30 years old and was born in Nyahururu Kenya. Caroline has also represented Kenya at the world championship in athletics in 2011. Caroline's greatest achievement which was her career breakthrough was when she beat all women and men in the Las Vegas Marathon in 2013.
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