April 20, 2010

Cheruiyot smashes Boston record with 2:05:52 sizzler

Cheruiyot smashes Boston record with 2:05:52 sizzler - Boston Marathon report

Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot smashes the Boston Marathon record in 2:05:52 (Getty Images)
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Boston, USA - Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot ran 2:05:52 to demolish the course record at the venerable B.A.A. Boston Marathon in that event's 114th running on Monday (19). Cheruiyot took a staggering minute and twenty-two seconds off the previous record of 2:07:14 set by Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot (no relation) in 2006.Teyba Erkesso followed the pattern of 2008 women's champion Dire Tune by winning in Boston after setting a course record in Houston. Erkesso ran 2:26:11, holding off charging Russian Tatyana Pushkareva in the closing steps.

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