"To be a champion in Boston is something very special and for me it has even more meaning because it took me quite some time during my career to be competitive enough to finally win the oldest marathon in the world. I can’t wait to be back and to enjoy the great atmosphere of such a unique and historical race."

— EVANS CHEBET, 2022 CHAMPION  

have experience winning Abbott World Marathon Majors races which will come in handy on the challenging Boston course. Ethiopia’s Herpasa Negasa, a 2:03:40 marathoner, will make his Boston Marathon debut. 

Tokyo Paralympic gold medalist Madison de Rozario aims to become the first Australian to win the wheelchair division since her coach and idol Louise Sauvage in 2001. She finished third a year ago. 

Ultra-runner Jacky Hunt-Broersma headlines the Para Athletics Division, having timed 2:35:44 for the win at the 2022 B.A.A. Half Marathon. She completed a record 104 marathons in 104 consecutive days last year.

USA TALENT

The American fields are a blend of Boston veterans and newcomers. Last year’s seventh-place finisher and top American, Scott Fauble, returns for his fourth Hopkinton-to-Boston race, and will be

joined by 50K world record holder CJ Albertson. After a 2:08:16 marathon debut in Chicago last year, Conner Mantz will take on the Boston course for the first time. Ben True, a Maine native and four-time winner of the B.A.A. 5K, also is part of the American field for the first time. 

Among the American women’s contingent are Des Linden, Sara Hall, Aliphine Tuliamuk, Emma Bates, Nell Rojas, Dakotah Lindwurm, Laura Thweatt, Annie Frisbie, Sara Vaughn and Erika Kemp. Rojas has finished as the top American at Boston two years in a row (fifth in 2:27:12 in October 2021 and tenth in 2:25:57 in April 2022), while Hall and Bates finished fifth and seventh, respectively, at the 2022 World Athletics Championships Marathon in Eugene. Tuliamuk was a 2021 Olympic Marathoner for Team USA. 

Abbott World Marathon Majors Series XIV champion Susannah Scaroni has finished on the Boston podium five times, though she enters after winning both the Chicago and New York City Marathons in 

2022. Aaron Pike, last year’s men’s wheelchair division runner-up, is in search of his first AbbottWMM win. 

American record holder and Massachusetts native Chaz Davis will look to defend his T12 (vision impairment) Para Athletics Division title, though he isn’t the only athlete with local ties. Brian Reynolds (Dedham, Mass.) enters atop the T62 (lower-limb impairment) classification, and B.A.A. High-Performance Team members Matt McDonald, and Jonas Hampton are in the Open Division. 

Marko Cheseto Lemtukei earned a 2:37:01 T62 victory last year, while Reynolds set a pending T62 world record of 1:25:46 at the B.A.A. Half Marathon in November. Lisa Thompson (T13/vision impairment) and Liz Willis (T63-64/lower-limb impairment) both won Para Athletics Division titles a year ago as well.

"Boston is such a historic marathon, and I want to be a part of that history. I love the aspect of racing with no pacers and hills that break up the rhythm, and Boston has both of those."

— CONNER MANTZ, 2:08:16 MARATHON DEBUT IN CHICAGO