Boston Marathon

Finishing the Boston Marathon is an emotional moment for most runners.

Henry Richard, whose 8-year-old brother Martin was killed in the Marathon Bombing nine years ago, ran the 126th Boston Marathon.

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Henry Richard, the 20-year-old brother of Boston Marathon bombing victim Martin Richard, was among the 28,000-plus participants in Monday’s 126th Boston Marathon. Henry Richard is the older brother of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Martin would have turned 18 this June. Henry has participated in...

Tens of thousands of athletes are participating in the 126th running of the Boston Marathon, covering 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Boston. The Boston Marathon returns to the traditional Patriots’ Day date on Monday, April 18 for the first time since 2019. This spring, the race is back to featuring a field of around 30,000 athletes, after a dip to&#...

About 30,000 people are running in Monday’s 126th Boston Marathon. Among them? Three of NBC10 Boston’s on air personalities. Evening news anchor Shannon Mulaire and reporters Eli Rosenberg and Katie Brace are all running this year’s marathon. We’ll bring you updates throughout the day on how they’re doing. Shannon Mula...

About 30,000 runners were expected to participate in Monday’s 126th running of the Boston Marathon, including some well known names. Among those running were NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth, U.S. women’s soccer team alums Heather O’Reilly, Leslie Osbourne and Kristine Lilly and former Vanderbilt University football kicker Sarah Fuller....

Marcel Hug, the defending champion in the men’s wheelchair race, has withdrawn from the Boston Marathon. Hug, of Switzerland, made the announcement just hours before the start of the race. No reason was given for his withdrawal. Sho Watanabe of Japan also withdrew. Watanabe finished ninth at last year’s Boston Marathon. Hug is the reigning me...

Jessica Lasky-Su is doing something she never thought she would do again: running her eighth Boston Marathon.  In 2020, the Newburyport native suffered a terrible injury while skiing and nearly lost her leg.  “At that time I wasn’t even sure if the best possible outcome was walking normally long term,” she said. Jessica was skiing with her family i...

Over 28,000 runners hit the pavement Monday in the 126th Boston Marathon. The historic race took place once again on Patriots Day this year after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed last year’s marathon back to October. Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, the reigning Olympic gold medalist, won the women’s division of the Boston Marathon Monday in an...

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The long-awaited road to the Boston Marathon is coming to a close as racers reveled in the final moments Sunday before taking to the course Monday morning. “Boston is just thee marathon. If you say the word ‘marathon,’ there’s only one word that comes to mind: Boston,” one woman said at the finish line Sunday. “For anybody w...

The daffodils have sprouted, the fall foliage has all been raked away, and the Boston Marathon is back in the spring where it belongs. The world’s most prestigious marathon will return to the streets from Hopkinton to Copley Square on Monday, three years after the last Patriots’ Day race and six months after its 125th edition was delaye...