Check the Boston Marathon 2025 results for winners, times, prize money and more

CBS News

21-04-2025

The
2025 Boston Marathon's
four professional races are underway on
Marathon Monday
. The men's and women's wheelchair races were the first to take off on the
course
, followed by professional
runners
a short time later. Stay with CBS News Boston and WBZ-TV
throughout the day
for complete details on how the top athletes finished.
The winner of the men's wheelchair was not much of a surprise.
Switzerland's Marcel Hug, known as "The Silver Bullet" for his trademark silver helmet, crossed the finish line first on Monday to win the 2025 Boston Marathon men's wheelchair division for the eighth time.
Hug spent much of Monday's race all alone, minutes ahead of the nearest competition.
Hug has become a staple of Marathon Monday. He won for the first time in 2015, and has become a regular frontrunner since. In addition to winning Boston eight times, the Silver Bullet has also won nine Berlin Marathon titles, the New York Marathon six times, and Chicago Marathon five times.
Winners are rewarded financially for their efforts on the course. In total, there is a pool of $1,214,500 in prize money.
The top Boston Marathon finishers of the men's and women's divisions receive $150,000 each. Runners that finish in second place earn $75,000, followed by $40,000 for third place.
In the wheelchair division, there is an increased prize for the 2025 race. The top winners will receive $50,000, up from $40,000 in recent years. The second and third place finishers will take home $30,000 and $15,000, respectively, in the wheelchair division.
Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia led wire-to-wire and broke the tape with a time of 2:06:17 to win the
2024 Boston Marathon
men's division. That was good for the 10th fastest time in Boston history. Fellow Ethiopian Mohamed Esa was second across the finish line at 2:06:58, while 2023 champion Evans Chebet was not far behind at 2:07:22.
In the women's division, Hellen Obiri of Kenya pulled away late to claim her second straight Boston Marathon women's race in a time of 2:22:37. She became the first back-to-back Boston Marathon winner since Catherine Ndereba of Kenya won in 2004 and 2005.
Sharon Lokedi finished second in 2024 at 2:22:45 while Edna Kiplagat placed third at 2:23:21 to give Kenya the top three spots in the 2024 women's race.
Hug took home a seventh Boston win in 2024 with a time of 1:15:33 during the 2024 race.
Eden Rainbow-Cooper won the women's wheelchair division in 2024, becoming the first from Great Britain to accomplish the feat with a time of 1:35:11. It was the first World Marathon major win of the 22-year-old's career.
The men's record time for the Boston Marathon is 2:03:02, set by Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya in 2011.
Ethiopia's
Buzunesh Deba
holds the women's record from the 2014 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:19:59. Originally, Kenya's Rita Jeptoo held the record after beating Deba that year with a finish of 2:18:57. In 2016, however, Jeptoo was stripped of her title because of doping. As a result, Deba was later awarded the 2014 win and record, but not the prize money.
For the men's wheelchair division, Hug's 2024 time of 1:15:33 didn't just set the course record. It also broke his own record that he had set the previous year with a time of 1:17:06.
Manuela Schär of Switzerland set the women's wheelchair record in 2017 with a finish of 1:28:17.